Add parallel Print Page Options

These also reel with wine
    and stagger with strong drink;
the priest and the prophet reel with strong drink;
    they are confused with wine;
    they stagger with strong drink;
they err in vision;
    they stumble in giving judgment.(A)

Read full chapter

Exhortation to Watch

34 “Be on guard so that your hearts are not weighed down with dissipation and drunkenness and the worries of this life and that day does not catch you unexpectedly,(A)

Read full chapter

10 Israel’s[a] sentinels are blind;
    they are all without knowledge;
they are all silent dogs
    that cannot bark,
dreaming, lying down,
    loving to slumber.(A)
11 The dogs have a mighty appetite;
    they never have enough.
The shepherds also have no understanding;
    they have all turned to their own way,
    to their own gain, one and all.
12 “Come,” they say, “let us[b] get wine;
    let us fill ourselves with strong drink.
And tomorrow will be like today,
    great beyond measure.”

Read full chapter

Footnotes

  1. 56.10 Heb His
  2. 56.12 Q ms Syr Vg Tg: MT me

The Coming of the Son of Man

29 “Immediately after the suffering of those days

the sun will be darkened,
    and the moon will not give its light;
the stars will fall from heaven,
    and the powers of heaven will be shaken.(A)

Read full chapter

14 The Lord has poured into them[a]
    a spirit of confusion;
and they have made Egypt stagger in all its doings
    as a drunkard staggers around in his vomit.(A)

Read full chapter

Footnotes

  1. 19.14 Gk Compare Tg: Heb it

17 Happy are you, O land, when your king is a nobleman,
    and your princes feast at the proper time—
    for strength and not for drunkenness!(A)

Read full chapter

20 Wine is a mocker, strong drink a brawler,
    and whoever is led astray by it is not wise.(A)

Read full chapter

11 If someone were to go about uttering empty falsehoods,
    saying, “I will preach to you of wine and strong drink,”
    such a one would be the preacher for this people!(A)

Read full chapter

12 My people—their oppressors extort them,
    and creditors[a] rule over them.
O my people, your leaders mislead you
    and confuse the course of your paths.(A)

Read full chapter

Footnotes

  1. 3.12 Gk: Heb women

27 they reeled and staggered like drunkards
    and were at their wits’ end.(A)

Read full chapter

28 In the same way, husbands should love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself.

Read full chapter

11     prostitution.

The Idolatry of Israel

Wine and new wine
    take away the understanding.(A)
12 My people consult a piece of wood,
    and their divining rod gives them oracles.
For a spirit of prostitution has led them astray,
    and they have prostituted themselves, forsaking their God.(B)

Read full chapter

21 No priest shall drink wine when he enters the inner court.(A)

Read full chapter

Have you not seen a false vision or uttered a lying divination when you have said, “Says the Lord,” even though I did not speak?

Read full chapter

He has bent his bow like an enemy,
    with his right hand set like a foe;
he has killed all those
    in whom we took pride
in the tent of daughter Zion;
    he has poured out his fury like fire.(A)

Read full chapter

16 Thus says the Lord of hosts: Do not listen to the words of the prophets who prophesy to you; they are deluding you. They speak visions of their own minds, not from the mouth of the Lord.(A)

Read full chapter

13 In the prophets of Samaria
    I saw a disgusting thing:
they prophesied by Baal
    and led my people Israel astray.(A)

Read full chapter

14 And the Lord said to me: “The prophets are prophesying lies in my name; I did not send them, nor did I command them or speak to them. They are prophesying to you a lying vision, worthless divination, and the deceit of their own minds.(A)

Read full chapter

11 The vision of all this has become for you like the words of a sealed document. If it is given to those who can read with the command, “Read this,” they say, “We cannot, for it is sealed.”(A)

Read full chapter

And it shall be, as with the people, so with the priest;
    as with the male slave, so with his master;
    as with the female slave, so with her mistress;
as with the buyer, so with the seller;
    as with the lender, so with the borrower;
    as with the creditor, so with the debtor.(A)

Read full chapter

13 but instead there was joy and festivity,
    killing oxen and slaughtering sheep,
    eating meat and drinking wine.
“Let us eat and drink,
    for tomorrow we die.”(A)

Read full chapter

15 elders and dignitaries are the head,
    and prophets who teach lies are the tail,(A)
16 for those who led this people led them astray,
    and those who were led by them were left in confusion.(B)

Read full chapter

22 Woe to those who are heroes in drinking wine
    and valiant at mixing drink,(A)

Read full chapter

11 Woe to those who rise early in the morning
    in pursuit of strong drink,
who linger in the evening
    to be inflamed by wine,(A)

Read full chapter

It is not for kings, O Lemuel,
    it is not for kings to drink wine
    or for rulers to desire[a] strong drink,(A)
lest they drink and forget what has been decreed
    and pervert the rights of all the afflicted.

Read full chapter

Footnotes

  1. 31.4 Cn: Heb where