Isaiah 28:7

But these also are now stumbling through wine, and reeling through strong drink: priest and prophet are stumbling through strong drink, they are overpowered with wine, they reel through strong drink; they stumble in [divine] vision, they are unsteady in giving judgment.

Leeser Tanakh

In The King James Version

But they also have erred through wine, and through strong drink are out of the way; the priest and the prophet have erred through strong drink, they are swallowed up of wine, they are out of the way through strong drink; they err in vision, they stumble in judgment.

In Context

6And for a spirit of judgment to him that sitteth in judgment, and for strength to those that drive back the battle to the gate [of the enemy].

8For all tables are full of vomit of filthiness, there is no place [clean].

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Cross References

Psalms 107:27They would reel to and fro, and stagger like a drunken man, and all their wisdom was exhausted.

Proverbs 31:4Not for kings, O Lemoel, not for kings [it is fitting] to drink wine, nor for princes, strong drink:

Isaiah 3:12My people! their oppressors are children, and women rule over them. O my people! thy leaders cause thee to err, and the direction of thy paths they corrupt.

Isaiah 5:22Woe unto those that are heroes to drink wine, and men of might to mingle strong drink;

Isaiah 9:15(9:14) The ancient and honorable is the head; and the prophet that teacheth lies is the tail.

Isaiah 22:13And behold [there are] gladness and joy, slaying of oxen, and killing of sheep, eating flesh, and drinking wine: “Let us eat and drink; for tomorrow we must die.”

Matthew Henry on Isaiah 28:2-9

Ephraim Reproved and Threatened; The Punishment of Ephraim; ( b. c. 725.) 1 Woe to the crown of pride, to the drunkards of Ephraim, whose glorious beauty is a fading flower, which are on the head of the fat valleys of them that are overcome with wine! 2 Behold, the Lord hath a mighty and strong one, which as a tempest of hail and a destroying storm, as a flood of mighty waters overflowing, shall cast down to the earth with the hand. 3 The crown of pride, the drunkards of Ephraim, shall be trodden under feet: 4 And… Read the whole commentary →

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