Bible Verses About Wine: The Jews Frequently Deprived of, As a Punishment

The new wine mourneth, the vine languisheth, all the merryhearted do sigh.

There is a crying for wine in the streets; all joy is darkened, the mirth of the land is gone.

Therefore will I return, and take away my corn in the time thereof, and my wine in the season thereof, and will recover my wool and my flax given to cover her nakedness.

The field is wasted, the land mourneth; for the corn is wasted: the new wine is dried up, the oil languisheth.

And I called for a drought upon the land, and upon the mountains, and upon the corn, and upon the new wine, and upon the oil, and upon that which the ground bringeth forth, and upon men, and upon cattle, and upon all the labour of the hands.

Since those days were, when one came to an heap of twenty measures, there were but ten: when one came to the pressfat for to draw out fifty vessels out of the press, there were but twenty.