Joel 1:5

5 Drunks, wake up and cry! All you people who drink wine, cry! Cry because your wine has been taken away from your mouths.

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 these things, let your children tell their children, and let your grandchildren tell their children.

4 What the cutting locusts have left, the swarming locusts have eaten; what the swarming locusts have left, the hopping locusts have eaten, and what the hopping locusts have left, the destroying locustsn have eaten.

5 Drunks, wake up and cry! All you people who drink wine, cry! Cry because your wine has been taken away from your mouths.

6 A powerful nation has come into my land with too many soldiers to count. It has teeth like a lion, jaws like a female lion.

7 It has made my grapevine a waste and made my fig tree a stump. It has stripped all the bark off my trees and left the branches white.