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 stupor, to realize the cutting off from you of your favourite drink.
And howl - even the drunkards (from a Hebrew root х sheekaar (H7941)], any strong drink) shall be forced to "howl," though usually laughing in the midst of the greatest national calamities, so palpably and universally shall the calamity affect all.
Wine ... new wine - new or fresh wine, in Hebrew х `aaciyc (H6071)], is the unfermented, and therefore unintoxicating, sweet juice extracted by pressure from grapes or other fruit, as pomegranates (Song of Solomon 8:2, "Spiced wine of the juice of my pomegranate"). Wine х tiyrowsh (H8492)] is the produce of the grape alone, and is intoxicating (see note, Joel 1:10).