Isaiah 5:22
Woe to you that are mighty to drink wine, and stout men at drunkenness.
Douay-Rheims 1899
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 that rue wise in your own eyes, and prudent in your own conceits.
23That justify the wicked for gifts, and take away the justice of the just from him.
Cross References
1 Kings 20:16And they went out at noon. But Benadad was drinking himself drunk in his pavilion, and the two and thirty kings with him, who were come to help him.
Proverbs 31:5And lest they drink and forget judgments, and pervert the cause of the children of the poor.
Isaiah 28:1Woe to the crown of pride, to the drunkards of Ephraim, and to the fading flower the glory of his joy, who were on the head of the fat valley, staggering with wine.
Isaiah 56:12Come, let us take wine, and be filled with drunkenness: and it shall be as to day, so also to morrow, and much more.
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 →