Verse Lens · Concise explanation
Joel 1:5 Explained in Context
Use this verse as a doorway into the larger passage—not as an isolated saying.
Verse 5. 5Awake, ye drunkards, and weep; and howl, all ye drinkers of wine, because of the new wine; for it is cut off from your mouth.
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Quick Meaning
This verse wakes wine drinkers to mourn the cutoff of new wine.
Read It With
- Joel 1:5–12
Read Joel 1:5–12 together. This verse wakes wine drinkers to mourn the cutoff of new wine. Read Joel 1:5–12 as one complete prophetic movement: The calamity reaches appetite, agriculture, worship, labor, land, and emotion; Joel calls each affected group to wake, lament, and see the shared scale of loss.
Why This Verse Appears Here
By moving through different people and parts of creation, the poem makes communal lament proportionate to a disaster that no single group owns or escapes. Within that movement, this verse wakes wine drinkers to mourn the cutoff of new wine.
What Remains True
The loss reaches habitual consumers first through the absence of what they expect at the mouth.
How It Can Shape Life
- Let disrupted consumption awaken concern for growers, laborers, and ecosystems rather than only personal inconvenience.
Continue in Context
The full thought-unit study remains the final contextual authority for this Verse Lens.
Read Joel 1:5–12 — Vine, Field, Worship, Work, and Joy Wither TogetherSources used for this Verse Lens
How certain is this explanation? strong
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Biblical text
King James (Authorized) Version — eng-kjv2006
eBible.org and CrossWire Bible Society
USFM archive eng-kjv2006_usfm.zip; source files dated 2026-08-19; downloaded 2026-08-24; archive SHA-256 aec1b3b26c622fd3d963d2bbac963016b9513246ffbfa20da00bb100372ea007; normalized corpus SHA-256 09aef51d90488aa7b9722b3fd9a93f4b25f6bf2064c5fd798fb39673c300ddf2.
Supports: Exact reader-facing KJV wording and complete verse coverage for this thought unit.
Exact location: Joel 1:5–12, pinned eng-kjv2006 USFM corpus
Open source ↗hebrew text and morphology
Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible: Joel
Open Scriptures
Open Scriptures, release 2.2
Supports: Hebrew forms, morphology, repeated roots, clause relationships, names, and the base wording behind translation discussion.
Exact location: Open Scriptures MorphHB v.2.2, commit 6a5db284c715c18b239422e57bb89684e6a19f00, wlc/Joel.xml, Masoretic words and morphology for 1:5–12
Open source ↗translation and translator notes
NET Bible: Joel with translators' notes
Biblical Studies Press
Biblical Studies Press, 2006
Supports: Material lexical, grammatical, textual, numbering, historical, Day-of-the-LORD, Spirit, judgment, and restoration notes within the unit.
Exact location: NET Bible Joel PDF, printed pp. 1696–1697, translation and translator notes on 1:5–12
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