Joel 1:5
Good News Translation
Wake up and weep, you drunkards; cry, you wine-drinkers; the grapes for making new wine have been destroyed.

New Revised Standard Version
Wake up, you drunkards, and weep; and wail, all you wine-drinkers, over the sweet wine, for it is cut off from your mouth.

Contemporary English Version
Sober up, you drunkards! Cry long and loud; your wine supply is gone.

New American Bible
Wake up, you drunkards, and weep; wail, all you wine drinkers, Over the new wine, taken away from your mouths.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Awake, ye that are drunk, and weep, and mourn all ye that take delight in drinking sweet wine: for it is cut off from your mouth.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Awake, ye that are drunk, and weep, and mourn all ye that take delight in drinking sweet wine: for it is cut off from your mouth.

Awake.

Isaiah 24:7-11 The vintage hath mourned, the vine hath languished away, all the merry have sighed. . . .

Amos 6:3-7 You that are separated unto the evil day: and that approach to the throne of iniquity; . . .

Luke 21:34-36 And take heed to yourselves, lest perhaps your hearts be overcharged with surfeiting and drunkenness and the cares of this life: and that day come upon you suddenly. . . .

Romans 13:11-14 And that, knowing the season, that it is now the hour for us to rise from sleep. For now our salvation is nearer than when we believed. . . .

weep.

Joel 1:11,13 The husbandmen are ashamed, the vinedressers have howled for the wheat, and for the barley, because the harvest of the field is perished. . . .

Jeremiah 4:8 For this gird yourselves with haircloth, lament and howl: for the fierce anger of the Lord is not turned away from us.

Ezekiel 30:2 Son of man prophesy, and say: Thus saith the Lord God: Howl ye, Woe, woe to the day:

James 5:1 Go to now, ye rich men: weep and howl in your miseries, which shall come upon you.

for.

Isaiah 32:10-12 For after days and a year, you that are confident shall be troubled: for the vintage is at an end, the gathering shall come no more. . . .

Luke 16:19,23-25 There was a certain rich man who was clothed in purple and fine linen and feasted sumptuously every day. . . .

Context
The Invasion of Locusts
4That which the palmerworm hath left, the locust hath eaten: and that which the locust hath left, the bruchus hath eaten: and that which the bruchus hath left, the mildew hath destroyed. 5Awake, ye that are drunk, and weep, and mourn all ye that take delight in drinking sweet wine: for it is cut off from your mouth.6For a nation come up upon my land, strong, and without number: his teeth are like the teeth of a lion: and his cheek teeth as of a lion's whelp.…
Cross References
Isaiah 32:10
For after days and a year, you that are confident shall be troubled: for the vintage is at an end, the gathering shall come no more.

Ezekiel 30:2
Son of man prophesy, and say: Thus saith the Lord God: Howl ye, Woe, woe to the day:

Joel 3:3
And they have cast lots upon my people: and the boy they have put in the stews, and the girl they have sold for wine, that they might drink.

Joel 1:4
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