There is a crying in the streets because of the wine. All joy is darkened. The mirth of the land is gone.
Parallel translations
- KJV There is a crying for wine in the streets; all joy is darkened, the mirth of the land is gone.
- BSB In the streets they cry out for wine. All joy turns to gloom; rejoicing is exiled from the land.
- NKJV There is a cry for wine in the streets, All joy is darkened, The mirth of the land is gone.
- NASB There is an outcry in the streets concerning the wine; All joy turns to gloom. The joy of the earth is banished.
- NLT Mobs gather in the streets, crying out for wine. Joy has turned to gloom. Gladness has been banished from the land.
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Quick answer
People cry in the streets for lack of wine, and all joy turns to gloom across the land. Gladness has departed.
Overview
The outcry over wine signals the failure of supply and the collapse of cheer. The land's mirth is exiled into darkness. The verse continues the theme that earthly joys vanish when judgment falls.
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 13
- Hos 7:14They haven’t cried to me with their heart, but they howl on their beds. They assemble themselves for grain and new wine. They turn away from me.
- Isa 16:10Gladness is taken away, and joy out of the fruitful field; and in the vineyards there will be no singing, neither joyful noise. Nobody will tread out wine in the presses. I have made the shouting stop.
- Isa 32:13Thorns and briers will come up on my people’s land; yes, on all the houses of joy in the joyous city.
- Luke 16:25“But Abraham said, ‘Son, remember that you, in your lifetime, received your good things, and Lazarus, in the same way, bad things. But now here he is comforted and you are in anguish.
- Jer 48:33Gladness and joy is taken away from the fruitful field and from the land of Moab. I have caused wine to cease from the wine presses. No one will tread with shouting. The shouting will be no shouting.
- Matt 22:11–13But when the king came in to see the guests, he saw there a man who didn’t have on wedding clothing,
- Lam 5:14–15The elders have ceased from the gate, The young men from their music.
- Prov 31:6Give strong drink to him who is ready to perish; and wine to the bitter in soul:
- Isa 8:22and look to the earth, and see distress, darkness, and the gloom of anguish. They will be driven into thick darkness.
- Isa 24:7–9The new wine mourns. The vine languishes. All the merry-hearted sigh.
- Isa 9:19Through Yahweh of Armies’ wrath, the land is burned up; and the people are the fuel for the fire. No one spares his brother.
- Amos 5:16–20Therefore Yahweh, the God of Armies, the Lord, says: “Wailing will be in all the wide ways; and they will say in all the streets, ‘Alas! Alas!’ and they will call the farmer to mourning, and those who are skillful in lamentation to wailing.
- Joel 1:15Alas for the day! For the day of Yahweh is at hand, and it will come as destruction from the Almighty.
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