Verse 5
Joel 1:5
World English Bible
5
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.
Original Language Text
hebrew
הָקִ֤יצוּ שִׁכּוֹרִים֙ וּ/בְכ֔וּ וְ/הֵילִ֖לוּ כָּל שֹׁ֣תֵי יָ֑יִן עַל עָסִ֕יס כִּ֥י נִכְרַ֖ת מִ/פִּי/כֶֽם
English Translation
Awake, you drunkards, and weep; and wail, all you drinkers of wine, because of the sweet wine, for it is cut off from your mouth.
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Chapter 1 Context
1
Yahweh’s word that came to Joel, the son of Pethuel.
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2
Hear this, you elders,
And listen, all you inhabitants of the land.
Has this ever happened in your d...
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3
Tell your children about it,
and have your children tell their children,
and their children, another...
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4
What the swarming locust has left, the great locust has eaten.
What the great locust has left, the g...
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5
Wake up, you drunkards, and weep!
Wail, all you drinkers of wine, because of the sweet wine;
for it...
6
For a nation has come up on my land, strong, and without number.
His teeth are the teeth of a lion,...
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7
He has laid my vine waste,
and stripped my fig tree.
He has stripped its bark, and thrown it away.
I...
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8
Mourn like a virgin dressed in sackcloth for the husband of her youth!
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9
The meal offering and the drink offering are cut off from Yahweh’s house.
The priests, Yahweh’s mini...
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10
The field is laid waste.
The land mourns, for the grain is destroyed,
The new wine has dried up,
and...
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11
Be confounded, you farmers!
Wail, you vineyard keepers;
for the wheat and for the barley;
for the ha...
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12
The vine has dried up, and the fig tree withered;
the pomegranate tree, the palm tree also, and the...
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13
Put on sackcloth and mourn, you priests!
Wail, you ministers of the altar.
Come, lie all night in sa...
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14
Sanctify a fast.
Call a solemn assembly.
Gather the elders,
and all the inhabitants of the land, to...
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15
Alas for the day!
For the day of Yahweh is at hand,
and it will come as destruction from the Almight...
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16
Isn’t the food cut off before our eyes;
joy and gladness from the house of our God (Elohim)?
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17
The seeds rot under their clods.
The granaries are laid desolate.
The barns are broken down, for the...
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18
How the animals groan!
The herds of livestock are perplexed, because they have no pasture.
Yes, the...
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19
Yahweh, I cry to you,
For the fire has devoured the pastures of the wilderness,
and the flame has bu...
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20
Yes, the animals of the field pant to you,
for the water brooks have dried up,
And the fire has devo...
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