Focused Passage

Joel 1:5-7

A Devastated Land and the Call to Lament Before the LORD

The chapter moves from observed devastation to interpreted devastation, then to commanded lament and direct appeal to the LORD.

Berean Standard Bible, Public Domain - Translation notes - Reference sources

5 Wake up, you drunkards, and weep; wail, all you drinkers of wine, because of the sweet wine, for it has been cut off from your mouth.

6 For a nation has invaded My land, powerful and without number; its teeth are the teeth of a lion, and its fangs are the fangs of a lioness.

7 It has laid waste My grapevine and splintered My fig tree. It has stripped off the bark and thrown it away; the branches have turned white.

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Verse 5

Cross-references

1 Corinthians 15:34 Classic cross-references James 5:1 Classic cross-references Luke 21:34 Classic cross-references Isaiah 32:10 Classic cross-references Proverbs 23:21 Classic cross-references

Original words

Wake up הָקִ֤יצוּ H6974 Verb - Hifil - Imperative - masculine plural you drunkards שִׁכּוֹרִים֙ H7910 Adjective - masculine plural and weep וּבְכ֔וּ H1058 Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Imperative - masculine plural wail וְהֵילִ֖לוּ H3213 Conjunctive waw | Verb - Hifil - Imperative - masculine plural all כָּל־ H3605 Noun - masculine singular construct you drinkers שֹׁ֣תֵי H8354 Verb - Qal - Participle - masculine plural construct of wine יָ֑יִן H3196 Noun - masculine singular because of עַל־ H5921 Preposition the sweet wine עָסִ֕יס H6071 Noun - masculine singular for כִּ֥י H3588 Conjunction it has been cut off נִכְרַ֖ת H3772 Verb - Nifal - Perfect - third person masculine singular from your mouth מִפִּיכֶֽם׃ H6310 Preposition-m | Noun - masculine singular construct | second person masculine plural

Verse 6

Cross-references

Joel 2:2 Classic cross-references Revelation 9:8 Classic cross-references Joel 2:25 Classic cross-references Proverbs 30:27 Classic cross-references Isaiah 8:8 Classic cross-references

Original words

For כִּֽי־ H3588 Conjunction a nation גוֹי֙ H1471 Noun - masculine singular has invaded עָלָ֣ה H5927 Verb - Qal - Perfect - third person masculine singular . . . עַל־ H5921 Preposition My land אַרְצִ֔י H776 Noun - feminine singular construct | first person common singular powerful עָצ֖וּם H6099 Adjective - masculine singular and without וְאֵ֣ין H369 Conjunctive waw | Adverb number מִסְפָּ֑ר H4557 Noun - masculine singular its teeth שִׁנָּיו֙ H8127 Noun - cdc | third person masculine singular [are] the teeth שִׁנֵּ֣י H8127 Noun - cdc of a lion אַרְיֵ֔ה H738 Noun - masculine singular and its fangs [are the fangs] וּֽמְתַלְּע֥וֹת H4973 Conjunctive waw | Noun - feminine plural construct of a lioness לָבִ֖יא H3833 Noun - masculine singular

Verse 7

Cross-references

Amos 4:9 Classic cross-references Isaiah 5:6 Classic cross-references Jeremiah 8:13 Classic cross-references Joel 1:12 Classic cross-references Exodus 10:15 Classic cross-references

Original words

It has laid שָׂ֤ם H7760 Verb - Qal - Perfect - third person masculine singular waste לְשַׁמָּ֔ה H8047 Preposition-l | Noun - feminine singular My grapevine גַּפְנִי֙ H1612 Noun - common singular construct | first person common singular and splintered לִקְצָפָ֑ה H7111 Preposition-l | Noun - feminine singular My fig tree וּתְאֵנָתִ֖י H8384 Conjunctive waw | Noun - feminine singular construct | first person common singular It has stripped off the bark חָשֹׂ֤ף H2834 Verb - Qal - Infinitive absolute . . . חֲשָׂפָהּ֙ H2834 Verb - Qal - Perfect - third person masculine singular | third person feminine singular and thrown it away וְהִשְׁלִ֔יךְ H7993 Conjunctive waw | Verb - Hifil - Conjunctive perfect - third person masculine singular the branches שָׂרִיגֶֽיהָ׃ H8299 Noun - masculine plural construct | third person feminine singular have turned white הִלְבִּ֖ינוּ H3835 Verb - Hifil - Perfect - third person common plural

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