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Joel 1:5

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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.

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The Inner Meaning of the Prophets and Psalms #198

  
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198. Internal Meaning of Joel, Chapter 1

1-3 To all who are of the church. (2)

4 Falsity from the sensual man and afterwards evil therefrom has consumed all things of the church. (2, 15)

5-7 Let them repent, for evil from the sensual man has destroyed the different things of the church. (2)

8-13 Mourning over the destruction of the goods and truths of the church. (2)

14 Exhortation to be converted, (2)

15 and to reflect that thus will be the last time, when the Lord will come, (1)

16-17 and that everything of the church has been devastated; (3)

18-20 for which reason there is lamentation. (3)

  
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