Matthew Poole and continuators on Joel 1:5

5 Awake ye drunkards and weep, and howl all ye drinkers of wine , because of the new wine , for it is cut off from your mouth .

Great drinkers of intoxicating liquors are apt to sleep, and be secure, the Prophet doth therefore here call to them, as to sleepers, and by one apt word expresseth a double duty, vigilance of mind, as well as of the body, so may this be parallel'd with Rom. 13.11. 1 Thes. 5.6. 1 Pet. 5.8. or Eph. 5.14.

Riotous livers, such as Prov 23.30, 31, 32. and Isa. 5.11, 12. whose life is nothing but a continued feasting with choicest Wines, and in excess, such as Amos 6.4, 5, 6. describeth.

Lament your condition with sober tears, for the sorrowes coming upon you are just matter of weeping, nor will an ordinary degree of weeping suffice. Cry out, and howl like men surprized with unsupportable miseries, Isa. 13.6 and 14.32. and 15.2.

Who offend by an inordinate use of Wine, for it is not to be understood of every one that drinketh Wine, but of such as before are called drunkards, who are in love with Wine.

Which is sweet and pleasing to the taste, and no doubt drank without stint or measure by men of that Age, against which Ioel Prophesieth.

Suddenly cut off, even when you are ready to drink it, and totally all cut off by these devouring vermin; which as 'twas a Narrative of what was already done, refers to that waste and famine by the locusts, as 'tis Allegorical and Predictive, 'twill be more dreadfully fulfilled when the enemies of Iudah shall destroy all.