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Wake up, you drunkards, and weep!
    Wail,[a] all you wine drinkers,
    because of the sweet wine[b] that has been snatched from your mouth.
        A nation has come up into my land, powerful and without number.
        It has teeth like a lion and fangs like a lioness.
        It has devastated my vines and shredded my fig trees.
        It has completely stripped off their bark and thrown it aside,
        so that their branches are bare and white.

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Footnotes

  1. Joel 1:5 Or howl
  2. Joel 1:5 New or sweet wine is not unfermented grape juice, but wine that is still sweet because it has not yet been soured by continued fermentation.