Joel 1:5
3 Tell ye your children of it, and let your children tell their children, and their children another generation.
4 That which the palmerworm hath left hath the locust eaten; and that which the locust hath left hath the cankerworm eaten; and that which the cankerworm hath left hath the caterpiller eaten.
Awake, ye drunkards, and weep; and howl, all ye drinkers of wine, because of the new wine; for it is cut off from your mouth.
6 For a nation is come up upon my land, strong, and without number, whose teeth are the teeth of a lion, and he hath the cheek teeth of a great lion.
7 He hath laid my vine waste, and barked my fig tree: he hath made it clean bare, and cast it away; the branches thereof are made white.
This was said to Israel at a particular time, so it is wise to read it together with the surrounding text. Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- Wake up, you drunkards, and weep; wail, all you drinkers of wine, because of the sweet wine, for it has been cut off from your mouth.
- KJV
- Awake, ye drunkards, and weep; and howl, all ye drinkers of wine, because of the new wine; for it is cut off from your mouth.
- WEB
- Wake up, you drunkards, and weep! Wail, all you drinkers of wine, because of the sweet wine, for it is cut off from your mouth.
- ASV
- Awake, ye drunkards, and weep; and wail, all ye drinkers of wine, because of the sweet wine; for it is cut off from your mouth.
- DARBY
- Awake, ye drunkards, and weep; and howl, all ye drinkers of wine, because of the new wine: for it is cut off from your mouth.
- BLB
- Wake up, O drunkards, and weep; wail, all drinkers of wine, over the new wine, for it has been cut off from your⁺ mouth!
- ÅB
- Våkn opp, dere drukne, og gråt, og jamre, alle vindrikkere, fordi mosten er revet bort fra deres munn.
- OTB
- Våkn opp, dere drankere, og gråt!
Jamre, alle dere vindrikkere,
for den søte vinen,
for den er tatt fra deres lepper. - B1930
- Våkn op, I drukne, og gråt, og jamre, alle vindrikkere, fordi mosten er revet bort fra eders munn.
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Luke 21:34–36
And take heed to yourselves, lest at any time your hearts be overcharged with surfeiting, and drunkenness, and cares of this life, and so that day come upon you unawares.
Read in contextJames 5:1
Go to now, ye rich men, weep and howl for your miseries that shall come upon you.
Read in contextIsaiah 32:10–12
Many days and years shall ye be troubled, ye careless women: for the vintage shall fail, the gathering shall not come.
Read in contextIsaiah 24:7–11
The new wine mourneth, the vine languisheth, all the merryhearted do sigh.
Read in contextJeremiah 4:8
For this gird you with sackcloth, lament and howl: for the fierce anger of the LORD is not turned back from us.
Read in contextAmos 6:3–7
Ye that put far away the evil day, and cause the seat of violence to come near;
Read in contextLuke 16:19
There was a certain rich man, which was clothed in purple and fine linen, and fared sumptuously every day:
Read in contextRomans 13:11–14
And that, knowing the time, that now it is high time to awake out of sleep: for now is our salvation nearer than when we believed.
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