Isaiah 28:7
Yet truly, these also have been ignorant due to wine, and they have gone astray due to inebriation. The priest and the prophet have been ignorant because of inebriation. They have been absorbed by wine. They have staggered in drunkenness. They have not known the One who sees. They have been ignorant of judgment.
Catholic Public Domain Version
In The King James Version
In Context
8For all the tables have been filled with vomit and filth, so much so that there was no place left.
Cross References
Proverbs 31:4Not to kings, O Lamuel, not to kings give wine. For there are no secrets where drunkenness reigns.
Isaiah 3:12As for my people, their oppressors have despoiled them, and women have ruled over them. My people, who call you blessed, the same are deceiving you and disrupting the path of your steps.
Isaiah 5:22Woe to you who are powerful at drinking wine, who are strong men in contriving inebriation!
Isaiah 9:15The long-lived and honorable, he is the head; and the prophet who teaches lies, he is the tail.
Isaiah 22:13But behold: gladness and rejoicing, the killing of calves and the slaughter of rams, the eating of meat and the drinking of wine: “Let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we will die.”
Matthew Henry on Isaiah 28:2-9
Ephraim Reproved and Threatened; The Punishment of Ephraim; ( b. c. 725.) 1 Woe to the crown of pride, to the drunkards of Ephraim, whose glorious beauty is a fading flower, which are on the head of the fat valleys of them that are overcome with wine! 2 Behold, the Lord hath a mighty and strong one, which as a tempest of hail and a destroying storm, as a flood of mighty waters overflowing, shall cast down to the earth with the hand. 3 The crown of pride, the drunkards of Ephraim, shall be trodden under feet: 4 And… Read the whole commentary →