There is a crying for wine in the streets; all joy is darkened, the mirth of the land is gone.
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Gill's Exposition
There is a crying for wine in the streets,.... Not to them that have it, to come and sell it, as Kimchi; but for want of it: there shall be a howling and lamentation in the streets of Rome, during the…
Barnes' Notes
There is a crying for wine in the streets - The inhabitants of the city, turned from their dwellings, would cry for wine to alleviate their distress, and to sustain them in their calamity (compare Isa…
It is a very dark and melancholy scene that this prophecy presents to our view; turn our eyes which way we will, every thing looks dismal. The threatened desolations are here described in a great…
Cambridge Bible
a crying for wine Rather, as R.V.: a crying because of the wine. The word for streets, meaning strictly "that which is without," is by some rendered "fields"; but this is less natural.
the mirth of…
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