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Wake up, you drunkards, and weep! Wail, all you drinkers of wine, because of the sweet wine; For it is cut off from your mouth.
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A Wake-Up Call for the Insensible
Commentators explain that Joel's call to the 'drunkards' is a powerful rhetorical device. It addresses not only literal drunkards but all who are spiritually numb and insensible to God's judgment. As John Calvin notes, if even the most pleasure-seeking members of society are forced to 'awake' because their specific indulgence is gone, then no one has an excuse for ignoring God's hand at work.
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18th Century
Presbyterian
Awake, you drunkards, and weep - All sin stupefies the sinner. All intoxicate the mind, bribe and pervert the judgment, dull the co…
19th Century
Anglican
Awake, ye drunkards— i.e., awake from such an insensibility as wine causes. The people failed to see the hand of…
16th Century
Protestant
The Prophet adds this verse to amplify his point, for when God sees men either contemptuously laughing at or disregarding His judgments, He derides…
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17th Century
Reformed Baptist
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…
