The new wine mourneth, the vine languisheth, all the merryhearted do sigh.
The new wine mourneth - `The new wine is dried up' (ashamed, margin; Joel 1:10).
The vine languisheth - because there are none to cultivate it now. Dissipation, "surfeiting, and drunkenness" shall be characteristic of the latter times, so that the day of the Lord shall come "unawares" (Luke 21:34-35), "as a snare on all them that dwell on the face of the whole earth." So it was in the days of Noah before the flood, the type of the last judgment: and Isaiah 24:18, "the windows from on high are open," etc., plainly alludes to the flood in Noah's days.