Parallel Verses

A Conservative Version

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.

New American Standard Bible

Awake, drunkards, and weep;
And wail, all you wine drinkers,
On account of the sweet wine
That is cut off from your mouth.

King James Version

Awake, ye drunkards, and weep; and howl, all ye drinkers of wine, because of the new wine; for it is cut off from your mouth.

Holman Bible

Wake up, you drunkards, and weep;
wail, all you wine drinkers,
because of the sweet wine,
for it has been taken from your mouth.

International Standard Version

"Wake up, you drunkards! Cry aloud and howl, you wine drinkers, because your supply of new wine has been snatched from you.

American Standard Version

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.

Amplified


Awake [from your intoxication], you drunkards, and weep;
Wail, all you drinkers of wine,
Because of the [fresh] sweet wine
That is cut off from your mouth.

Bible in Basic English

Come out of your sleep, you who are overcome with wine, and give yourselves to weeping; give cries of sorrow, all you drinkers of wine, because of the sweet wine; for it has been cut off from your mouths.

Darby Translation

Awake, ye drunkards, and weep; and howl, all ye drinkers of wine, because of the new wine: for it is cut off from your mouth.

Julia Smith Translation

Awake, ye intoxicated, and weep; and wail, all ye drinking wine, on account of the new wine, for it was cut off from your mouth.

King James 2000

Awake, you drunkards, and weep; and howl, all you drinkers of wine, because of the new wine, for it is cut off from your mouth.

Lexham Expanded Bible

Wake up, drunkards, and weep! Wail, all drinkers of wine, over the new wine, for it is cut off from your mouth.

Modern King James verseion

Awake, drunkards, and weep; and howl, all drinkers of wine, because of the new wine; for it is cut off from your mouth.

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

Wake up ye drunkards, and weep: mourn all ye wine sippers because of your sweet wine, for it shall be taken away from your mouth.

NET Bible

Wake up, you drunkards, and weep! Wail, all you wine drinkers, because the sweet wine has been taken away from you.

New Heart English Bible

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.

The Emphasized Bible

Awake, ye drunkards, and weep, and howl, all ye drinkers of wine, - over the new wine, because it hath been cut off from your mouth.

Webster

Awake, ye drunkards, and weep; and howl, all ye drinkers of wine, because of the new wine; for it is cut off from your mouth.

World English Bible

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.

Youngs Literal Translation

Awake, ye drunkards, and weep, And howl all drinking wine, because of the juice, For it hath been cut off from your mouth.

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
קוּץ 
Quwts 
Usage: 22

שׁכּר שׁכּור 
Shikkowr 
Usage: 13

and weep
בּכה 
Bakah 
Usage: 114

and howl
ילל 
Yalal 
Usage: 32

שׁתה 
Shathah 
Usage: 218

of wine
יין 
Yayin 
Usage: 140

because of the new wine
עסיס 
`aciyc 
Usage: 5

for it is cut off
כּרת 
Karath 
Usage: 287

References

Easton

Fausets

Hastings

Watsons

Context Readings

A Lament Over The Land

4 That which the palmer-worm has left the locust has eaten, and that which the locust has left the canker-worm has eaten, and that which the canker-worm has left the caterpillar has eaten. 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. 6 For a nation has come up upon my land, strong, and without number. His teeth are the teeth of a lion, and he has the jaw-teeth of a lioness.

Cross References

Isaiah 24:7-11

The new wine mourns. The vine languishes. All the merry-hearted do sigh.

Isaiah 32:10-12

For ye shall be troubled days beyond a year, ye careless women. For the vintage shall fail; the ingathering shall not come.

Ezekiel 30:2

Son of man, prophesy, and say, Thus says lord LORD: Wail ye, Alas for the day!

Joel 1:11

Be confounded, O ye husbandmen. Wail, O ye vinedressers, for the wheat and for the barley, for the harvest of the field is perished.

Joel 1:13

Gird yourselves [with sackcloth], and lament, ye priests. Wail, ye ministers of the altar. Come, lay all night in sackcloth, ye ministers of my God. For the meal-offering and the drink-offering are withheld from the house of your G

Joel 3:3

and have cast lots for my people, and have given a boy for a harlot, and sold a girl for wine, that they may drink.

Amos 6:3-7

Ye who put far away the evil day, and cause the seat of violence to come near,

Luke 16:19

Now there was a certain rich man, and he was clothed in purple and fine linen, faring sumptuously daily.

Luke 16:23-25

And having lifted up his eyes in Hades, being in torments, he sees Abraham from afar and Lazarus by his bosom.

Luke 21:34-36

But take heed to yourselves, lest your hearts be weighed down in debauchery and drunkenness and mundane cares, and that day come upon you sudden.

Romans 13:11-14

And this, knowing the time, that the hour is now for us to awake out of sleep. For our salvation is now nearer than when we believed.

James 5:1

Go now, ye rich, weep, howling for your miseries that are approaching.

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