Joel 1:5 meaning and explanation

Wake up, you drunkards, and weep; wail, all you drinkers of wine, because of the sweet wine, for it has been cut off from your mouth.

Joel 1:5, Berean Standard Bible

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The prophet Joel speaks to the whole land, and here he singles out drunkards and wine drinkers as an emblem of careless ease. A devastating locust plague has stripped the vineyards, so the sweet wine they lived for is suddenly gone.

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