The new wine mourneth, the vine languisheth, all the merryhearted do sigh.
Parallel translations
- WEB The new wine mourns. The vine languishes. All the merry-hearted sigh.
- BSB The new wine dries up, the vine withers. All the merrymakers now groan.
- NKJV The new wine fails, the vine languishes, All the merry-hearted sigh.
- NASB ¶The new wine mourns, The vine decays, All the joyful-hearted sigh.
- NLT The grapevines waste away, and there is no new wine. All the merrymakers sigh and mourn.
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Quick answer
The new wine dries up, the vine withers, and all the once-merry sigh. The ordinary joys of life fail under judgment.
Overview
Wine and the vine, symbols of gladness and harvest, fail, and festal cheer turns to sighing. The loss of common pleasures signals creation's disorder. When God's judgment comes, even the simplest delights are stripped away.
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Cross-references · 5
- 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.
- Joel 1:10–12The field is wasted, the land mourneth; for the corn is wasted: the new wine is dried up, the oil languisheth.
- Isa 16:8For the fields of Heshbon languish, and the vine of Sibmah: the lords of the heathen have broken down the principal plants thereof, they are come even unto Jazer, they wandered through the wilderness: her branches are stretched out, they are gone over the sea.
- Isa 32:9–13Rise up, ye women that are at ease; hear my voice, ye careless daughters; give ear unto my speech.
- Hos 9:1–2Rejoice not, O Israel, for joy, as other people: for thou hast gone a whoring from thy God, thou hast loved a reward upon every cornfloor.
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