Verse 7

The new wine mourns, the vine languishes, all the merry-hearted do sigh.

Referenced Verses

• Isa 16:10 : 10 Gladness is taken away, and joy out of the fruitful field; and in the vineyards there shall be no singing, neither joyful noise: nobody shall tread out wine in the presses; I have made the [vintage] shout to cease.
• Isa 16:8 : 8 For the fields of Heshbon languish, [and] the vine of Sibmah; the lords of the nations have broken down the choice branches of it, which reached even to Jazer, which wandered into the wilderness; its shoots were spread abroad, they passed over the sea.
• Joel 1:10-12 : 10 The field is laid waste. The land mourns, for the grain is destroyed, The new wine has dried up, And the oil languishes. 11 Be confounded, you farmers! Wail, you vineyard keepers; For the wheat and for the barley; For the harvest of the field has perished. 12 The vine has dried up, and the fig tree withered; the pomegranate tree, the palm tree also, and the apple tree, Even all of the trees of the field are withered; For joy has withered away from the sons of men.
• Isa 32:9-9 : 9 Rise up, you women who are at ease, [and] hear my voice; you careless daughters, give ear to my speech. 10 For days beyond a year shall you be troubled, you careless women; for the vintage shall fail, the harvest shall not come. 11 Tremble, you women who are at ease; be troubled, you careless ones; strip yourselves, and make yourselves naked, and gird [sackcloth] on your loins. 12 They shall strike on the breasts for the pleasant fields, for the fruitful vine. 13 On the land of my people shall come up thorns and briers; yes, on all the houses of joy in the joyous city.
• Hos 9:1-2 : 1 Don't rejoice, Israel, to jubilation like the nations; For you were unfaithful to your God. You love the wages of a prostitute at every grain threshing floor. 2 The threshing floor and the winepress won't feed them, And the new wine will fail her.