Isaiah 5:22
Tragedy is coming to you who are wine-drinking champions, and experts at mixing alcoholic drinks;
Free Bible 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
21Tragedy is coming to you who are wise in your own eyes and think you're so clever.
23you who set the guilty free for a bribe, and yet deny justice to the innocent.
Cross References
1 Kings 20:16They left at noon while Ben-hadad and the thirty-two kings with him were busy getting drunk in their tents.
Proverbs 31:5For if they drink, they'll forget what the law says, and pervert the rights of those who are suffering.
Isaiah 28:1Tragedy is coming to the city of Samaria, the crowning glory of Ephraim's drunks, to the fading flower of wonderful beauty, sitting above a fertile valley, and beloved by those hammered by wine.
Isaiah 56:12“Come on,” they say, “I'll get some wine and let's get drunk! We'll do this today, and tomorrow we'll drink so 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 →