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

5Wake 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.

6For 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.

7It 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 15:34Classic cross-references James 5:1Classic cross-references Luke 21:34Classic cross-references Isaiah 32:10Classic cross-references Proverbs 23:21Classic cross-references

Original words

Wake upהָקִ֤יצוּH6974Verb - Hifil - Imperative - masculine pluralyou drunkardsשִׁכּוֹרִים֙H7910Adjective - masculine pluraland weepוּבְכ֔וּH1058Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Imperative - masculine pluralwailוְהֵילִ֖לוּH3213Conjunctive waw | Verb - Hifil - Imperative - masculine pluralallכָּל־H3605Noun - masculine singular constructyou drinkersשֹׁ֣תֵיH8354Verb - Qal - Participle - masculine plural constructof wineיָ֑יִןH3196Noun - masculine singularbecause ofעַל־H5921Prepositionthe sweet wineעָסִ֕יסH6071Noun - masculine singularforכִּ֥יH3588Conjunctionit has been cut offנִכְרַ֖תH3772Verb - Nifal - Perfect - third person masculine singularfrom your mouthמִפִּיכֶֽם׃H6310Preposition-m | Noun - masculine singular construct | second person masculine plural

Verse 6

Cross-references

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

Original words

Forכִּֽי־H3588Conjunctiona nationגוֹי֙H1471Noun - masculine singularhas invadedעָלָ֣הH5927Verb - Qal - Perfect - third person masculine singular. . .עַל־H5921PrepositionMy landאַרְצִ֔יH776Noun - feminine singular construct | first person common singularpowerfulעָצ֖וּםH6099Adjective - masculine singularand withoutוְאֵ֣יןH369Conjunctive waw | Adverbnumberמִסְפָּ֑רH4557Noun - masculine singularits teethשִׁנָּיו֙H8127Noun - cdc | third person masculine singular[are] the teethשִׁנֵּ֣יH8127Noun - cdcof a lionאַרְיֵ֔הH738Noun - masculine singularand its fangs [are the fangs]וּֽמְתַלְּע֥וֹתH4973Conjunctive waw | Noun - feminine plural constructof a lionessלָבִ֖יאH3833Noun - masculine singular

Verse 7

Cross-references

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

Original words

It has laidשָׂ֤םH7760Verb - Qal - Perfect - third person masculine singularwasteלְשַׁמָּ֔הH8047Preposition-l | Noun - feminine singularMy grapevineגַּפְנִי֙H1612Noun - common singular construct | first person common singularand splinteredלִקְצָפָ֑הH7111Preposition-l | Noun - feminine singularMy fig treeוּתְאֵנָתִ֖יH8384Conjunctive waw | Noun - feminine singular construct | first person common singularIt has stripped off the barkחָשֹׂ֤ףH2834Verb - Qal - Infinitive absolute. . .חֲשָׂפָהּ֙H2834Verb - Qal - Perfect - third person masculine singular | third person feminine singularand thrown it awayוְהִשְׁלִ֔יךְH7993Conjunctive waw | Verb - Hifil - Conjunctive perfect - third person masculine singularthe branchesשָׂרִיגֶֽיהָ׃H8299Noun - masculine plural construct | third person feminine singularhave turned whiteהִלְבִּ֖ינוּH3835Verb - Hifil - Perfect - third person common plural

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