Bible Verses About Wine: The Jews frequently deprived of, as a punishment

The new wine mourns. The vine languishes. All the merry-hearted sigh.

There is a crying in the streets because of the wine. All joy is darkened. The mirth of the land is gone.

Therefore I will take back my grain in its time, and my new wine in its season, and will pluck away my wool and my flax which should have covered her nakedness.

The field is laid waste. The land mourns, for the grain is destroyed, The new wine has dried up, and the oil languishes.

I called for a drought on the land, on the mountains, on the grain, on the new wine, on the oil, on that which the ground produces, on men, on livestock, and on all the labor of the hands.”

Through all that time, when one came to a heap of twenty measures, there were only ten. When one came to the wine vat to draw out fifty, there were only twenty.