Isaiah 24:9
They will not drink wine with a song. The drink will be bitter to those who drink it.
Catholic Public Domain Version
In The King James Version
They shall not drink wine with a song; strong drink shall be bitter to them that drink it.
In Context
10The city of vanity has been worn away. Every house has been closed up; no one enters.
Cross References
Isaiah 5:11Woe to you who rise up in the morning to pursue drunkenness, and to drink even until evening, so as to be inflamed with wine.
Isaiah 5:22Woe to you who are powerful at drinking wine, who are strong men in contriving inebriation!
Amos 8:3And the hinges of the temple will creak in that day, says the Lord God. Many will die. Silence will be thrown away in all places.
Zechariah 9:15The Lord of hosts will protect them. And they will devour and subdue with the stones of the sling. And, when drinking, they will become inebriated, as if with wine, and they will be filled like bowls and like the horns of the altar.
Matthew Henry on Isaiah 24:2-13
General Desolation Announced. ( b. c. 718.) 1 Behold, the Lord maketh the earth empty, and maketh it waste, and turneth it upside down, and scattereth abroad the inhabitants thereof. 2 And it shall be, as with the people, so with the priest; as with the servant, so with his master; as with the maid, so with her mistress; as with the buyer, so with the seller; as with the lender, so with the borrower; as with the taker of usury, so with the giver of usury to him. 3 The land shall be utterly emptied, and utterly… Read the whole commentary →