Isaiah 24:9
They shall not drink wine with a song: the drink shall be bitter to them that drink it.
Douay-Rheims 1899
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 is broken down, every house is shut up, no man cometh in.
Cross References
Psalms 69:12And I made haircloth my garment: and I became a byword to them.
Isaiah 5:11Woe to you that rise up early in the morning to follow drunkenness, and to drink till the evening, to be inflamed with wine.
Isaiah 5:22Woe to you that are mighty to drink wine, and stout men at drunkenness.
Amos 8:3And the hinges of the temple shall screak in that day, saith the Lord God: many shall die: silence shall be cast in every place.
Zechariah 9:15The Lord of hosts will protect them: and they shall devour, and subdue with the stones of the sling: and drinking they shall be inebriated as it were with wine, and they shall be filled as bowls, and as 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 →