There is a crying for wine in the streets; all joy is darkened, the mirth of the land is gone.
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.
- 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.
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Cross-references · 13
- Hos 7:14And they have not cried unto me with their heart, when they howled upon their beds: they assemble themselves for corn and wine, and they rebel against me.
- Isa 16:10And gladness is taken away, and joy out of the plentiful field; and in the vineyards there shall be no singing, neither shall there be shouting: the treaders shall tread out no wine in their presses; I have made their vintage shouting to cease.
- Isa 32:13Upon the land of my people shall come up thorns and briers; yea, upon all the houses of joy in the joyous city:
- Luke 16:25But Abraham said, Son, remember that thou in thy lifetime receivedst thy good things, and likewise Lazarus evil things: but now he is comforted, and thou art tormented.
- Jer 48:33And joy and gladness is taken from the plentiful field, and from the land of Moab; and I have caused wine to fail from the winepresses: none shall tread with shouting; their shouting shall be no shouting.
- Matt 22:11–13And when the king came in to see the guests, he saw there a man which had not on a wedding garment:
- Lam 5:14–15The elders have ceased from the gate, the young men from their musick.
- Prov 31:6Give strong drink unto him that is ready to perish, and wine unto those that be of heavy hearts.
- Isa 8:22And they shall look unto the earth; and behold trouble and darkness, dimness of anguish; and they shall be driven to darkness.
- Isa 24:7–9The new wine mourneth, the vine languisheth, all the merryhearted do sigh.
- Isa 9:19Through the wrath of the LORD of hosts is the land darkened, and the people shall be as the fuel of the fire: no man shall spare his brother.
- Amos 5:16–20Therefore the LORD, the God of hosts, the LORD, saith thus; Wailing shall be in all streets; and they shall say in all the highways, Alas! alas! and they shall call the husbandman to mourning, and such as are skilful of lamentation to wailing.
- Joel 1:15Alas for the day! for the day of the LORD is at hand, and as a destruction from the Almighty shall it come.
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