Joel 1:5

"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."

Key Reflection

Joel 1:5 uses vivid imagery to convey a sense of impending disaster. The verse addresses those who indulge in drinking "sweet wine," likely referring to high-quality, delicious wines that were both popular and often associated with luxury and celebration. By announcing the cut-off of this sweet wine, Joel emphasizes the severity of the coming judgment or calamity, paralleling it with the loss of something precious and enjoyable, thereby highlighting the depth of the impending hardship for those accustomed to such comforts.

From the Scholars: Barnes' Notes

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.

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