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Joel 1:5
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Awake: Isaiah 24:7-11, Amos 6:3-7, Luke 21:34-36, Romans 13:11-14
weep: Joel 1:11, Joel 1:13, Jeremiah 4:8, Ezekiel 30:2, James 5:1
for: Isaiah 32:10-12, Luke 16:19, Luke 16:23-25
Reciprocal: Proverbs 23:21 - the drunkard Proverbs 23:34 - thou Isaiah 13:6 - Howl ye Isaiah 17:11 - the harvest Jeremiah 48:33 - caused Joel 1:10 - the new Joel 1:16 - the meat Amos 8:3 - the songs Zephaniah 1:11 - Howl 1 Corinthians 15:34 - Awake
Gill's Notes on the Bible
Awake, ye drunkards, and weep: and howl, all ye drinkers of wine,.... Who are used to neither, either to awake or to howl, being very prone to drowsiness upon their drinking bouts, and to mirth and jollity in them; but now should be awake, and sober enough, not as being a virtue in them, but through want of wine; and for the same reason should howl, as follows:
because of the new wine, for it is cut off from your mouth; the locusts having spoiled the vines and eaten the grapes, no new wine could be made, and so none could be brought in cups to their mouths; nor they drink it in bowls, as they had used to do; and which, being sweet and grateful to their taste, they were wont to drink in great abundance, till they were inebriated with it; but now there was a scarcity, their lips were dry, but not their eyes. The word, Kimchi says, signifies all liquor which is squeezed by bruising or treading.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
Awake, ye drunkards, and weep - All sin stupefies the sinner. All intoxicate the mind, bribe and pervert the judgment, dull the conscience, blind the soul and make it insensible to its own ills. All the passions, anger, vain glory, ambition, avarice and the rest are a spiritual drunkenness, inebriating the soul, as strong drink doth the body. : “They are called drunkards, who, confused with the love of this world, feel not the ills which they suffer. What then is meant by, “Awake, ye drunkards and weep,” but, ‘shake off the sleep of your insensibility, and oppose by watchful lamentations the many plagues of sins, which succeed one to the other in the devastation of your hearts?’” God arouse those who will be aroused, by withdrawing from them the pleasures wherein they offended Him. Awake, the prophet cries, from the sottish slumber of your drunkenness; awake to weep and howl, at least when your feverish enjoyments are dashed from your lips. Weeping for things temporal may awaken to the fear of losing things eternal.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse 5. Awake, ye drunkards — The general destruction of vegetation by these devouring creatures has totally prevented both harvest and vintage; so that there shall not be wine even for necessary uses, much less for the purposes of debauchery. It is well known that the ruin among the vines by locusts prevents the vintage for several years after.