Passage

Wine cut off

Source and translation

World English Bible, Protestant Edition · Public domain · en

⁵Wake up, you drunkards, and weep! Wail, all you drinkers of wine, because of the sweet wine, for it is cut off from your mouth.

Joel 1:5World English Bible, Protestant Edition

The scene

The call to wake and weep addresses drunkards and drinkers of wine.

To understand

It follows the account of insects consuming what the previous ones left. The drinkers are told to wail because the sweet wine has been cut off from their mouths.

A question

What loss prompts the wine drinkers’ lament?