Bible Strands
Joel 1:5
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.
Berean Standard Bible
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Study note
Setting — The prophet Joel addresses Judah’s leadership and populace immediately after detailing how successive locust swarms have completely consumed the agricultural yield.
The words — The text issues a direct command to awake (הָקִיצוּ, ha.Ki.tzu) and weep, specifically targeting those characterized as drunkards (שִׁכּוֹרִים, shi.ko.Rim) who have lost their access to wine.
The thread — This summons to wake and mourn over lost wine corresponds to the warning against drunkenness in Luke 21:34, the call for the wealthy to weep over impending misery in James 5:1, and the prophecy of failed grape harvests in Isaiah 32:10.
Why it lands — The text requires the audience to abandon passive consumption and directly mourn the removal of their daily provisions as a consequence of the described devastation.
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The Hebrew words
King James Version
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.
Cross-references
- Luke 21:34 But watch yourselves, or your hearts will be weighed down by dissipation, drunkenness, and the worries of life—and that day will spring upon you suddenly like a snare.
- James 5:1 Come now, you who are rich, weep and wail over the misery to come upon you.
- Isaiah 32:10 In a little more than a year you will tremble, O secure ones. For the grape harvest will fail and the fruit harvest will not arrive.
- Isaiah 24:7 The new wine dries up, the vine withers. All the merrymakers now groan.
- Jeremiah 4:8 So put on sackcloth, mourn and wail, for the fierce anger of the LORD has not turned away from us.”
- Amos 6:3 You dismiss the day of calamity and bring near a reign of violence.
- Ezekiel 30:2 “Son of man, prophesy and declare that this is what the Lord GOD says: Wail, ‘Alas for that day!’
- Joel 1:11 Be dismayed, O farmers, wail, O vinedressers, over the wheat and barley, because the harvest of the field has perished.
- Joel 1:13 Put on sackcloth and lament, O priests; wail, O ministers of the altar. Come, spend the night in sackcloth, O ministers of my God, because the grain and drink offerings are withheld from the house of your God.
- Joel 3:3 They cast lots for My people; they bartered a boy for a prostitute and sold a girl for wine to drink.