(A)These also reel with wine
    and (B)stagger with strong drink;
the priest and (C)the prophet reel with strong drink,
    they are swallowed by[a] wine,
    they stagger with strong drink,
they reel in vision,
    they stumble in giving judgment.

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  1. Isaiah 28:7 Or confused by

Watch Yourselves

34 “But watch yourselves (A)lest (B)your hearts be weighed down with dissipation and drunkenness and (C)cares of this life, and (D)that day come upon you suddenly (E)like a trap.

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The Coming of the Son of Man

29 “Immediately after (A)the tribulation of those days (B)the sun will be darkened, and the moon will not give its light, and (C)the stars will fall from heaven, and the powers of the heavens will be shaken.

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10 (A)His watchmen are blind;
    they are all without knowledge;
they are all silent (B)dogs;
    they cannot bark,
dreaming, lying down,
    loving to slumber.
11 (C)The dogs have a mighty appetite;
    they never have enough.
But (D)they are shepherds who have no understanding;
    they have all turned to their own way,
    (E)each to his own gain, one and all.
12 (F)“Come,” they say, “let me get wine;
    let us fill ourselves with strong drink;
(G)and tomorrow will be like this day,
    great beyond measure.”

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14 The Lord has mingled within her (A)a spirit of confusion,
and they will make Egypt stagger in all its deeds,
    (B)as a drunken man staggers in his vomit.

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12 My people—(A)infants are their oppressors,
    and women rule over them.
O my people, (B)your guides mislead you
    and they have swallowed up[a] the course of your paths.

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  1. Isaiah 3:12 Or they have confused

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

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

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  1. Proverbs 20:1 Or will not become wise

27 they reeled and (A)staggered like drunken men
    and (B)were at their wits' end.[a]

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  1. Psalm 107:27 Hebrew and all their wisdom was swallowed up

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

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11 If a man should go about and (A)utter wind and lies,
    saying, “I will preach to you (B)of wine and strong drink,”
    he would be the preacher for this people!

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     11 whoredom, wine, and new wine,
    which (A)take away the understanding.
12 My people (B)inquire of a piece of wood,
    and their walking staff gives them oracles.
For (C)a spirit of whoredom has led them astray,
    and they have left their God to play the whore.

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

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Have you not seen a false vision and uttered a lying divination, (A)whenever you have said, ‘Declares the Lord,’ although I have not spoken?”

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(A)He has bent his bow like an enemy,
    with his right hand set (B)like a foe;
and he has killed all who were delightful in our eyes
    in the tent of the daughter of Zion;
he has poured out his fury like fire.

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16 Thus says the Lord of hosts: “Do not listen to the words of the prophets who prophesy to you, (A)filling you with vain hopes. (B)They speak visions of their own minds, not from the mouth of the Lord.

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13 In the prophets of (A)Samaria
    (B)I saw an unsavory thing:
(C)they prophesied by Baal
    (D)and led my people Israel astray.

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

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11 And the vision of all this has become to you like the words of a book that is (A)sealed. When men give it to one who can read, saying, “Read this,” he says, “I cannot, for it is sealed.”

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

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13 and behold, joy and gladness,
    killing oxen and slaughtering sheep,
    eating flesh and drinking wine.
(A)“Let us eat and drink,
    for tomorrow we die.”

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15 (A)the elder and honored man is the head,
    and (B)the prophet who teaches lies is the tail;
16 for those who guide this people have been leading them astray,
    and those who are guided by them are swallowed up.

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

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11 Woe to those who (A)rise early in the morning,
    that they may run after strong drink,
who tarry late into the evening
    as wine inflames them!

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

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