Albert Barnes Commentary Joel 1:5

"Awake, ye drunkards, and weep; and wail, all ye drinkers of wine, because of the sweet wine; for it is cut off from your mouth." — Joel 1:5 (ASV)

Awake, you drunkards, and weep - All sin stupefies the sinner. All intoxicate the mind, bribe and pervert the judgment, dull the conscience, blind the soul and make it insensible to its own ills. All the passions, anger, vainglory, ambition, avarice, and the rest, are a spiritual drunkenness, inebriating the soul, as strong drink does the body: “They are called drunkards, who, confused with the love of this world, feel not the ills which they suffer.”

“What then is meant by Awake, you drunkards, and weep, but ‘shake off the sleep of your insensibility, and oppose by watchful lamentations the many plagues of sins, which follow one another in the devastation of your hearts?’” God arouses those who will be aroused, by withdrawing from them the pleasures in which they offended Him. Awake, the prophet cries, from the stupefied slumber of your drunkenness; awake to weep and howl, at least when your feverish enjoyments are dashed from your lips. Weeping for things temporal may awaken to the fear of losing things eternal.