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.
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Go to now, ye rich men, weep and howl for your miseries that shall come upon you.
Many days and years shall ye be troubled, ye careless women: for the vintage shall fail, the gathering shall not come. …
And take heed to yourselves, lest at any time your hearts be overcharged with surfeiting, and drunkenness, and cares of this life, and so that day come upon you unawares. …
The new wine mourneth, the vine languisheth, all the merryhearted do sigh. …
For this gird you with sackcloth, lament and howl: for the fierce anger of the LORD is not turned back from us.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-7)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 (1 Sam. 8:2); yet one of their rabbin very gravely undertakes to show why Samuel is here called Pethuel . This Joel was long after that. He here speaks of a sad and sore judgment which was now brought, or to be brought, upon Judah, for their sins. Observe, I. The grea…
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