“For this, gird yourself with sackcloth, lament and wail. For the burning displeasure of יהוה has not turned back from us.
Joel 1:5 - The Scriptures 2009 Wake up, you drunkards, and weep. And wail, all you drinkers of wine, on account of the new wine, for it has been 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 yourself with sackcloth, lament and wail. For the burning displeasure of יהוה has not turned back from us.
“Son of man, prophesy and say, ‘Thus said the Master יהוה, “Howl, ‘Woe to the day!’
The farmers are ashamed, the vinedressers wail over the wheat and over the barley, for the harvest of the field is destroyed.
Gird yourselves and lament, you priests. Wail, you attendants of the slaughter-place. Come, lie all night in sackcloth, you attendants of my Elohim. For the grain offering and the drink offering are withheld from the house of your Elohim.
“And they have cast lots for My people, and have given a young man for a whore, and sold a girl for wine, and drank it.
“But there was a certain rich man who used to dress in purple and fine linen and lived luxuriously every day.
Come now, rich ones, weep, crying aloud over the hardships coming upon you!