Awake ye [a]drunkards, and weep and howl all ye drinkers of wine, because of the new wine, for it shall be pulled from your mouth.

Yea, [b]a nation cometh upon my land, mighty and without number, whose teeth are like the teeth of a lion, and he hath the jaws of a great lion.

He maketh my vine waste, and pilleth off the bark of my fig tree: he maketh it bare, and casteth it down: the branches thereof are made white.

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Footnotes

  1. Joel 1:5 Meaning, that the occasion of their excess and drunkenness was taken away.
  2. Joel 1:6 This was another plague wherewith God had punished them when he stirred up the Assyrians against them.

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