Joel 1:5

Bible in Basic English 1965

Come out of your sleep, you who are overcome with wine, and give yourselves to weeping; give cries of sorrow, all you drinkers of wine, because of the sweet wine; for it has been cut off from your mouths.

Cross References

Jeremiah 4:8

For this put on haircloth, with weeping and loud crying: for the burning wrath of the Lord is not turned back from us.

Ezekiel 30:2

Son of man, be a prophet, and say, These are the words of the Lord: Give a cry, Aha, for the day!

Joel 1:11

The farmers are shamed, the workers in the vine-gardens give cries of grief, for the wheat and the barley; for the produce of the fields has come to destruction.

Joel 1:13

Put haircloth round you and give yourselves to sorrow, you priests; give cries of grief, you servants of the altar: come in, and, clothed in haircloth, let the night go past, you servants of my God: for the meal offering and the drink offering have been kept back from the house of your God.

Joel 3:3

And they have put the fate of my people to the decision of chance: giving a boy for the price of a loose woman and a girl for a drink of wine.

Luke 16:19

Now there was a certain man of great wealth, who was dressed in fair clothing of purple and delicate linen, and was shining and glad every day.

James 5:1

Come now, you men of wealth, give yourselves to weeping and crying because of the bitter troubles which are coming to you.