Awake, you drunkards, and weep - All sin stupefies the sinner. All intoxicate the mind, bribe and pervert the judgment, dull the co…

Awake, ye drunkards— i.e., awake from such an insensibility as wine causes. The people failed to see the hand of…

The Prophet adds this verse to amplify his point, for when God sees men either contemptuously laughing at or disregarding His judgments, He derides…

Awake, you drunkards, and weep: and howl, all you drinkers of
wine
Who are used to ne…

The oldest people could not remember such calamities as were about to take place. Armies of insects were coming upon the land to eat its fruits. Th…