Isaiah 28:7
But these also have erred through wine, and through strong drink are gone astray; the priest and the prophet have erred through strong drink, they are swallowed up of wine, they are gone astray through strong drink; they err in vision, they stumble in judgment.
Revised Version 1895
In The King James Version
In Context
8For all tables are full of vomit and filthiness, so that there is no place clean.
Cross References
Psalms 107:27They reel to and fro, and stagger like a drunken man, and are at their wits’ end.
Proverbs 31:4It is not for kings, O Lemuel, it is not for kings to drink wine; nor for princes to say, Where is strong drink?
Isaiah 3:12As for my people, children are their oppressors, and women rule over them. O my people, they which lead thee cause thee to err, and destroy the way of thy paths.
Isaiah 5:22Woe unto them that are mighty to drink wine, and men of strength to mingle strong drink:
Isaiah 9:15The ancient and the honourable man, he is the head; and the prophet that teacheth lies, he is the tail.
Isaiah 22:13and behold, joy and gladness, slaying oxen and killing sheep, eating flesh and drinking wine: let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we shall 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 →