For this gird you with sackcloth, lament and wail; for the fierce anger of the Lord has not turned back from us.”
Joel 1:5 - Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI) 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. More versionsKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 Awake, ye drunkards, and weep; and howl, all ye drinkers of wine, because of the new wine; for it is cut off from your mouth. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition Awake, you drunkards, and weep; wail, all you drinkers of wine, because of the [fresh] sweet juice [of the grape], for it is cut off and removed from your mouth. American Standard Version (1901) Awake, ye drunkards, and weep; and wail, all ye drinkers of wine, because of the sweet wine; for it is cut off from your mouth. Common English Bible Wake up, you who drink too much, and weep. Scream over the sweet wine, all you wine drinkers, because it is snatched from your mouth; Catholic Public Domain Version Rouse yourselves, you drunkards, and weep and wail, all you who delight in drinking wine; for it has been cut off from your mouth. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version Awake, ye that are drunk, and weep, and mourn all ye that take delight in drinking sweet wine: for it is cut off from your mouth. |
For this gird you with sackcloth, lament and wail; for the fierce anger of the Lord has not turned back from us.”
“Son of man, prophesy, and say, Thus says the Lord God: “Wail, ‘Alas for the day!’
Be confounded, O tillers of the soil, wail, O vinedressers, for the wheat and the barley; because the harvest of the field has perished.
Gird on sackcloth and lament, O priests, wail, O ministers of the altar. Go in, pass the night in sackcloth, O ministers of my God! Because cereal offering and drink offering are withheld from the house of your God.
and have cast lots for my people, and have given a boy for a harlot, and have sold a girl for wine, and have drunk it.
“There was a rich man, who was clothed in purple and fine linen and who feasted sumptuously every day.
Come now, you rich, weep and howl for the miseries that are coming upon you.