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Two distressed adults sit beside an empty clay wine jar.
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Joel 1:5

The wine is gone

The Land Mourns · Joel 1

Story guide: The empty wine jar and distressed drinkers show how the ruined harvest reaches ordinary life. Joel calls those who drink wine to wake, weep, and recognize the loss.

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5Wake up, you drunkards, and weep; wail, all you drinkers of wine, over the sweet wine, because it has been cut off from your mouth.

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