Isaiah 28:7
For these have trespassed through wine; they have erred through strong drink: the priest and the prophet are mad through strong drink, they are swallowed up by reason of wine, they have staggered through drunkenness; they have erred: this is their vision.
Updated Brenton Septuagint
In The King James Version
In Context
8A curse shall devour this counsel, for this is their counsel for the sake of covetousness.
Cross References
Proverbs 31:4Princes are prone to anger: let them then not drink wine:
Isaiah 3:12O my people, your exactors strip you, and extortioners rule over you: O my people, they that pronounce you blessed lead you astray, and pervert the path of your feet.
Isaiah 5:22Woe to the strong ones of you that drink wine, and the mighty ones that mingle strong drink:
Isaiah 9:15And they that pronounce this people blessed shall mislead them; and they mislead them that they may devour them.
Isaiah 22:13but they engaged in joy and gladness, slaying calves, and killing sheep, so as to eat flesh, and drink wine; saying, Let us eat and drink; for tomorrow we 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 →