Joel 1:5 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ 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. ”

Joel 1:5 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Awake, ye drunkards, and weep - All sin stupefies the sinner. All intoxicate the mind, bribe and pervert the judgment, dull the conscience, blind the soul and make it insensible to its own ills....
Joel 1:5 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

Awake, ye (c) drunkards, and weep; and howl, all ye drinkers of wine, because of the new wine; for it is cut off from your mouth. (c) Meaning, that the reason for their excess and drunkenness was ta...
Joel 1:5 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

The Distress Caused by the Plague. Joel 1:5-7 . The wine-bibbers no censure is implied; they are mentioned first because of the contrast between their accustomed merriment and the tears they are...
Joel 1:5 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

wine. Hebrew. yayin. App-27. L new wine. Hebrew. asis , App-27.
Joel 1:5 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

The Prophet adds this verse for the sake of amplifying; for when God sees men either contemptuously laughing at or disregarding his judgments, he derides them; and this mode the Prophet now ado...
Joel 1:5 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

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. Awake, ye drunkards - The general destruction of vegetation by these devo...
Joel 1:5 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Awake, ye drunkards— This character is given to Ephraim, Isaiah 28:1 ; Isaiah 28:3 .; and excessive drinking is assigned as a reason of the captivity of Israel, Amos 6:6-7 . Kimchi's commentary...
Joel 1:5 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

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. Awake, ye drunkards - out of your ordinary state of drunken stupo...
Joel 1:5 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

The Coming of the Locusts a Harbinger of the Day of the Lord After the title ( Joel 1:1 ), the prophet announces an unheard of and long to be remembered ruin, wrought by locusts ( Joel 1:2-4 ), an...
Joel 1:5 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Awake, ye drunkards — i.e., awake from such an insensibility as wine causes. The people failed to see the hand of God in the terrible calamity, like an acted parable, of the locusts. Insensate, a...
Joel 1:5 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

THE LOCUSTS AND THE DAY OF THE LORD Joel 1:2-20 ; Joel 2:1-17 JOEL, as we have seen, found the motive of his prophecy in a recent plague of locusts, the appearance of which and the havoc they...
Joel 1:5 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

a Summons to Penitence Joel 1:1-20 ; Joel 2:1-11 We know nothing of Joel beyond this book. He was content to be God's mouthpiece and remain unknown. His message was one of unparalleled woe. Th...
Joel 1:5 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Joel was especially a prophet to Judah. The burden of his message was the Day of the Lord. It seems to be one remarkable utterance rather than notes of a ministry covering a long period. A terrible l...
Joel 1:5 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

The prophecy opens in a very striking manner. It is the Lord's word, and therefore demands man's attention. And all ranks and orders are appealed unto to regard the man of God's commission; young men...
Joel 1:5 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Awake, ye drunkards, and weep: and howl, all ye drinkers of wine ,.... Who are used to neither, either to awake or to howl, being very prone to drowsiness upon their drinking bouts, and to mirth and...
Joel 1:5 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

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. Ver. 5. Awake, ye drunkards ] Ye ale stakes, and suckers (Heb. Shiccor...
Joel 1:5 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Awake, ye drunkards From the long sleep occasioned by your intoxication. Kimchi comments thus on the place: “You, who accustom yourselves to get drunk with wine, awake out of your sleep, and weep n...
Joel 1:5 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Threatenings of Judgment. B. C. 720. 1 The word of the L ORD that came to Joel the son...
Joel 1:5 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Awake: great drinkers of intoxicating liquors are apt to sleep and be secure, the prophet doth therefore here call to them, as to sleepers, and by one apt word expresseth a double duty, vigilance o...
Joel 1:5 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

The Call To Hear What God Has To Say ( Joel 1:2-5 ). The prophecy opens with a call to all in Judah to hear what God has to say. The opening call has in mind Exodus 10:1-2 which, in the context...
Joel 1:5 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

CRITICAL NOTES.] The prophecy opens with lamentation over the land, made desolate by successive swarms of locusts. Joel 1:2-4 contain the spirited introduction. Old men ] are called upon to note...
Joel 1:5 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Joel 1:1 . Joel, the son of Pethuel. Nothing can be gathered from antiquity of this prophet, but what appears from his writings. His father was either a prophet or a man of note, as may be presume...
Joel 1:5 - The Biblical Illustrator

Awake, ye drunkards, and weep. The insensibility and misery of the drunkard The prophet now endeavours to awaken certain characters in the nation to an earnest sense of the woe that has overtak...
Joel 1:5 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

EXPOSITION Joel 1:1 The word of the Lord that came to Joel the son of Pethuel . The name Joel signifies "Jehovah is God," or "whose God is Jehovah." We read in Scripture of several of the...
Joel 1:5 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

A Description of the Calamity
Joel 1:5 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Amos 6:3-7 ; Ezekiel 30:2 ; Isaiah 24:7-11 ; Isaiah 32:10-12 ; James 5:1 ; Jeremiah 4:8 ; Joel 1:11 ; Joel 1:13 ; Luke 16:19 ; Luke 16:23-25 ; Luke 21:34-36 ; Romans 13:11-14
Joel 1:5 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Is cut off — Suddenly cut off even when you are ready to drink it, and totally cut off by these devouring vermin.

Joel 1:5 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Joel 1:5 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

Joel 1:5 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Joel 1:5 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Joel 1:5 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

Joel 1:5 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Joel 1:5 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Joel 1:5 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Joel 1:5 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Joel 1:5 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Joel 1:5 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Joel 1:5 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

Joel 1:5 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Joel 1:5 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

Joel 1:5 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Joel 1:5 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Joel 1:5 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Joel 1:5 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Joel 1:5 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Joel 1:5 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Joel 1:5 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Joel 1:5 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Joel 1:5 - The Biblical Illustrator

Joel 1:5 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

Joel 1:5 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Joel 1:5 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Joel 1:5 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes