Isaiah 5:22
Woe to you who are powerful at drinking wine, who are strong men in contriving inebriation!
Catholic Public Domain Version
In The King James Version
Woe unto them that are mighty to drink wine, and men of strength to mingle strong drink:
In Context
21Woe to you who are wise in your own eyes, and prudent in your own sight!
Cross References
1 Kings 20:16And they went out at midday. But Benhadad was drinking; he was inebriated in his pavilion, and the thirty-two kings with him, who had arrived in order to assist him.
Proverbs 31:5And perhaps they may drink and forget judgments, and alter the case of the sons of the poor.
Isaiah 28:1Woe to the crown of arrogance, to the inebriated of Ephraim, and to the falling flower, the glory of his exultation, to those who were at the top of the very fat valley, staggering from wine.
Isaiah 56:12“Come, let us take wine, and be filled by inebriation. And as it is today, so shall it be tomorrow and for a long time.”
Matthew Henry on Isaiah 5:19-30
Denunciations against Sin. ( b. c. 758.) 18 Woe unto them that draw iniquity with cords of vanity, and sin as it were with a cart rope: 19 That say, Let him make speed, and hasten his work, that we may see it: and let the counsel of the Holy One of Israel draw nigh and come, that we may know it! 20 Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light, and light for darkness; that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter! 21 Woe unto them that are wise in their own eyes, and prudent in… Read the whole commentary →