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.
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Joel 1:5
Joel 1:5
John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible · John Gill (1697–1771) · Public Domain
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prophet was the same with that Joel who was the son of Samuel (1 Sam.
viii. 2); yet one of their rabbin very gravely undertakes to show why…Joel 1:5Joel 1:5 · Treasury of Scripture KnowledgeAwake: 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