Habakkuk 2:15
Woe unto him that giveth his neighbour drink, that puttest thy venom thereto, and makest him drunken also, that thou mayest look on their nakedness!
JPS TaNaKH 1917
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Genesis 19:32Come, let us make our father drink wine, and we will lie with him, that we may preserve seed of our father.'
Exodus 32:25And when Moses saw that the people were broken loose — for Aaron had let them loose for a derision among their enemies —
2 Samuel 13:26Then said Absalom: 'If not, I pray thee, let my brother Amnon go with us.' And the king said unto him: 'Why should he go with thee?'
Jeremiah 25:15For thus saith the LORD, the God of Israel, unto me: Take this cup of the wine of fury at My hand, and cause all the nations, to whom I send thee, to drink it.
Hosea 7:5On the day of our king the princes make him sick with the heat of wine, he stretcheth out his hand with scorners.
Matthew Henry on Habakkuk 2:6-15
Judgment Predicted; Judgment of the King of Babylon. ( b. c. 600.) 5 Yea also, because he transgresseth by wine, he is a proud man, neither keepeth at home, who enlargeth his desire as hell, and is as death, and cannot be satisfied, but gathereth unto him all nations, and heapeth unto him all people: 6 Shall not all these take up a parable against him, and a taunting proverb against him, and say, Woe to him that increaseth that which is not his! how long? and to him that ladeth himself with thick clay! 7 Shall… Read the whole commentary →