In the streets they cry out for wine. All joy turns to gloom; rejoicing is exiled from the land.
Parallel translations
- WEB There is a crying in the streets because of the wine. All joy is darkened. The mirth of the land is gone.
- KJV There is a crying for wine in the streets; all joy is darkened, the mirth of the land is gone.
- 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 do not cry out to Me from their hearts when they wail upon their beds. They slash themselves for grain and new wine, but turn away from Me.
- Isa 16:10Joy and gladness are removed from the orchard; no one sings or shouts in the vineyards. No one tramples the grapes in the winepresses; I have put an end to the cheering.
- Isa 32:13and for the land of my people, overgrown with thorns and briers—even for every house of merriment in this city of revelry.
- Luke 16:25But Abraham answered, ‘Child, remember that during your lifetime you received your good things, while Lazarus received bad things. But now he is comforted here, while you are in agony.
- Jer 48:33Joy and gladness are removed from the orchard and from the fields of Moab. I have stopped the flow of wine from the presses; no one treads them with shouts of joy; their shouts are not for joy.
- Matt 22:11–13But when the king came in to see the guests, he spotted a man who was not dressed in wedding clothes.
- Lam 5:14–15The elders have left the city gate; the young men have stopped their music.
- Prov 31:6Give strong drink to one who is perishing, and wine to the bitter in soul.
- Isa 8:22Then they will look to the earth and see only distress and darkness and the gloom of anguish. And they will be driven into utter darkness.
- Isa 24:7–9The new wine dries up, the vine withers. All the merrymakers now groan.
- Isa 9:19By the wrath of the LORD of Hosts the land is scorched, and the people are fuel for the fire. No man even spares his brother.
- Amos 5:16–20Therefore this is what the LORD, the God of Hosts, the Lord, says: “There will be wailing in all the public squares and cries of ‘Alas! Alas!’ in all the streets. The farmer will be summoned to mourn, and the mourners to wail.
- Joel 1:15Alas for the day! For the Day of the LORD is near, and it will come as destruction from the Almighty.
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