Isaiah 5:11

Woe to them that rise up in the morning, and follow strong drink; who wait at it till the evening: for the wine shall inflame them.

Updated Brenton Septuagint

In The King James Version

Woe unto them that rise up early in the morning, that they may follow strong drink; that continue until night, till wine inflame them!

In Context

10For where ten yoke of oxen plow the land shall yield one jarful, and he that sows six homers shall produce three measures.

12For they drink wine with harp, and psaltery, and drums, and pipes: but they regard not the works of the Lord, and consider not the works of his hands.

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Cross References

Proverbs 20:1Wine is an intemperate thing, and strong drink full of violence: 1 But every fool is entangled with them. 1

Proverbs 23:32But at last such a one stretches himself out as one smitten by a serpent, 1 And venom is diffused through him as by a horned serpent. 1

Isaiah 5:22Woe to the strong ones of you that drink wine, and the mighty ones that mingle strong drink:

Isaiah 28:1Woe to the crown of pride, the hirelings of Ephraim, the flower that has fallen from the glory of the top of the fertile mountain, they that are drunken without wine.

Hosea 7:5In the days of our kings, the princes began to be inflamed with wine: he stretched out his hand with pestilent fellows.

Matthew Henry on Isaiah 5:9-18

Worldly-Mindedness Reproved; The Punishment of the Sensual. ( b. c. 758.) 8 Woe unto them that join house to house, that lay field to field, till there be no place, that they may be placed alone in the midst of the earth! 9 In mine ears said the Lord of hosts, Of a truth many houses shall be desolate, even great and fair, without inhabitant. 10 Yea, ten acres of vineyard shall yield one bath, and the seed of a homer shall yield an ephah. 11 Woe unto them that rise up early in the morning, that they may follow… Read the whole commentary →

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