Joel 1:5 
Context| NET © | Wake up, you drunkards, 1 and weep! Wail, all you wine drinkers, 2 because the sweet wine 3 has been taken away 4 from you. 5 |
| NIV © | Wake up, you drunkards, and weep! Wail, all you drinkers of wine; wail because of the new wine, for it has been snatched from your lips. |
| NASB © | Awake, drunkards, and weep; And wail, all you wine drinkers, On account of the sweet wine That is cut off from your mouth. |
| NLT © | Wake up, you drunkards, and weep! All the grapes are ruined, and all your new wine is gone! |
| MSG © | Sober up, you drunks! Get in touch with reality--and weep! Your supply of booze is cut off. You're on the wagon, like it or not. |
| BBE © | 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. |
| NRSV © | Wake up, you drunkards, and weep; and wail, all you wine-drinkers, over the sweet wine, for it is cut off from your mouth. |
| NKJV © | Awake, you drunkards, and weep; And wail, all you drinkers of wine, Because of the new wine, For it has been cut off from your mouth. |
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| NET © [draft] ITL | |
| NET © | Wake up, you drunkards, 1 and weep! Wail, all you wine drinkers, 2 because the sweet wine 3 has been taken away 4 from you. 5 |
| NET © Notes |
1 sn The word drunkards has a double edge here. Those accustomed to drinking too much must now lament the unavailability of wine. It also may hint that the people in general have become religiously inebriated and are unresponsive to the Lord. They are, as it were, drunkards from a spiritual standpoint. 2 sn Joel addresses the first of three groups particularly affected by the locust plague. In v. 5 he describes the effects on the drunkards, who no longer have a ready supply of intoxicating wine; in vv. 11-12 he describes the effects on the farmers, who have watched their labors come to naught because of the insect infestation; and in vv. 13-14 he describes the effects on the priests, who are no longer able to offer grain sacrifices and libations in the temple. 3 tn Heb “over the sweet wine, because it.” Cf. KJV, NIV, TEV, NLT “new wine.” 4 tn Heb “cut off” (so KJV, ASV, NASB, NRSV); NAB “will be withheld.” 5 tn Heb “your mouth.” This is a synecdoche of part (the mouth) for whole (the person). |
