Joel 1:5

5 Wake up and weep, you drunkards; cry, you wine-drinkers; the grapes for making new wine have been destroyed.

Joel 1:5 Meaning and Commentary

Joel 1:5

Awake, ye drunkards, and weep: and howl, all ye drinkers of
wine
Who are used to neither, either to awake or to howl, being very prone to drowsiness upon their drinking bouts, and to mirth and jollity in them; but now should be awake, and sober enough, not as being a virtue in them, but through want of wine; and for the same reason should howl, as follows: because of the new wine, for it is cut off from your mouth;
the locusts having spoiled the vines and eaten the grapes, no new wine could be made, and so none could be brought in cups to their mouths; nor they drink it in bowls, as they had used to do; and which, being sweet and grateful to their taste, they were wont to drink in great abundance, till they were inebriated with it; but now there was a scarcity, their lips were dry, but not their eyes. The word, Kimchi says, signifies all liquor which is squeezed by bruising or treading.

Joel 1:5 In-Context

3 Tell your children about it; they will tell their children, who in turn will tell the next generation.

4 Swarm after swarm of locusts settled on the crops; what one swarm left, the next swarm devoured.

5 Wake up and weep, you drunkards; cry, you wine-drinkers; the grapes for making new wine have been destroyed.

6 An army of locusts has attacked our land; they are powerful and too many to count; their teeth are as sharp as those of a lion.

7 They have destroyed our grapevines and chewed up our fig trees. They have stripped off the bark, till the branches are white.