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Joel 1:5 KJV
Joel · chapter 1 · verse 5
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.Joel 1:5 · King James Version
Joel 1:5 in context
3Tell ye your children of it, and let your children tell their children, and their children another generation.
4That 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.
5Awake, ye drunkards, and weep; and howl, all ye drinkers of wine, because of the new wine; for it is cut off from your mouth.
6For 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.
7He 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.
Commentary
Key words (Strong's)
- drunkardsshikkôwrintoxicated, as astate or a habitH7910 →
- drinkersshâthâhto imbibeH8354 →
- Awakeqûwtsto awakeH6974 →
- weepbâkâhto weepH1058 →
- howlyâlalto howl or yellH3213 →
- wineyayinwineH3196 →
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It is a foolish fancy which some of the Jews have, that this Joel the prophet was the same with that Joel who was the son of Samuel (Sa1 8:2); yet one of their rabbin very gravely undertakes to show why Samuel is here called Pethuel. This Joel was long after that.
— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on verses 1-7