Isaiah 28:7

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

And even these reel with wine, and stagger with strong drink; the priest and the prophet reel with strong drink, they are swallowed up of wine, they stagger with strong drink; they err in vision, they stumble in judgment.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

וְגַם־אֵלֶּה בַּיַּיִן שָׁגוּ וּבַשֵּׁכָר תָּעוּ כֹּהֵן וְנָבִיא שָׁגוּ בַשֵּׁכָר נִבְלְעוּ מִן־הַיַּיִן תָּעוּ מִן־הַשֵּׁכָר שָׁגוּ בָּרֹאֶה פָּקוּ פְּלִילִיָּה

Transliteration

And-also-ʾēlleh with-yayin šāḡû and-with-šēḵār tāʿû kōhēn and-nāḇîʾ šāḡû with-šēḵār niḇləʿû from-hayyayin tāʿû from-haššēḵār šāḡû in-bārōʾeh pāqû pəlîliyyāh

Grammar Details

• *ʾēlleh*: demonstrative pronoun - these
• *yayin*: masculine singular noun - wine
• *šāḡû*: qal perfect 3rd common plural - they reel
• *šēḵār*: masculine singular noun - strong drink
• *tāʿû*: qal perfect 3rd common plural - they stagger
• *kōhēn*: masculine singular noun - priest
• *nāḇîʾ*: masculine singular noun - prophet
• *niḇləʿû*: niphal perfect 3rd common plural - they are swallowed up
• *hayyayin*: definite article + masculine singular noun - the wine
• *haššēḵār*: definite article + masculine singular noun - the strong drink
• *bārōʾeh*: preposition + definite article + qal participle masculine singular - in the seeing
• *pāqû*: qal perfect 3rd common plural - they stumble
• *pəlîliyyāh*: feminine singular noun - judgment

Word Meanings

• *šāḡû*: reel/err/go astray
• *tāʿû*: stagger/wander/go astray
• *niḇləʿû*: are swallowed up/consumed/overwhelmed
• *bārōʾeh*: in the seeing/in vision/in prophecy
• *pāqû*: stumble/totter/fail
• *pəlîliyyāh*: judgment/decision/office

Referenced Verses

• Isa 19:14 : 14 Jehovah hath mingled a spirit of perverseness in the midst of her; and they have caused Egypt to go astray in every work thereof, as a drunken man staggereth in his vomit.
• Isa 56:10-12 : 10 His watchmen are blind, they are all without knowledge; they are all dumb dogs, they cannot bark; dreaming, lying down, loving to slumber. 11 Yea, the dogs are greedy, they can never have enough; and these are shepherds that cannot understand: they have all turned to their own way, each one to his gain, from every quarter. 12 Come ye, [say they], I will fetch wine, and we will fill ourselves with strong drink; and to-morrow shall be as this day, [a day] great beyond measure.
• Matt 24:29 : 29 But immediately after the tribulation of those days the sun shall be darkened, and the moon shall not give her light, and the stars shall fall from heaven, and the powers of the heavens shall be shaken:
• Luke 21:34 : 34 But take heed to yourselves, lest haply your hearts be overcharged with surfeiting, and drunkenness, and cares of this life, and that day come on you suddenly as a snare:
• Ps 107:27 : 27 They reel to and fro, and stagger like a drunken man, And are at their wits' end.
• Prov 20:1 : 1 Wine is a mocker, strong drink a brawler; And whosoever erreth thereby is not wise.
• Eccl 10:17 : 17 Happy art thou, O land, when thy king is the son of nobles, and thy princes eat in due season, for strength, and not for drunkenness!
• Isa 3:12 : 12 As for my people, children are their oppressors, and women rule over them. O my people, they that lead thee cause thee to err, and destroy the way of thy paths.
• Isa 5:11 : 11 Woe unto them that rise up early in the morning, that they may follow strong drink; that tarry late into the night, till wine inflame them!
• Isa 5:22 : 22 Woe unto them that are mighty to drink wine, and men of strength to mingle strong drink;
• Isa 9:15-16 : 15 The elder and the honorable man, he is the head; and the prophet that teacheth lies, he is the tail. 16 For they that lead this people cause them to err; and they that are led of them are destroyed.
• Isa 22:13 : 13 and behold, joy and gladness, slaying oxen and killing sheep, eating flesh and drinking wine: let us eat and drink, for to-morrow we shall die.
• Isa 24:2 : 2 And it shall be, as with the people, so with the priest; as with the servant, so with his master; as with the maid, so with her mistress; as with the buyer, so with the seller; as with the creditor, so with the debtor; as with the taker of interest, so with the giver of interest to him.
• Isa 29:11 : 11 And all vision is become unto you as the words of a book that is sealed, which men deliver to one that is learned, saying, Read this, I pray thee; and he saith, I cannot, for it is sealed:
• Jer 14:14 : 14 Then Jehovah said unto me, The prophets prophesy lies in my name; I sent them not, neither have I commanded them, neither spake I unto them: they prophesy unto you a lying vision, and divination, and a thing of nought, and the deceit of their own heart.
• Jer 23:13 : 13 And I have seen folly in the prophets of Samaria; they prophesied by Baal, and caused my people Israel to err.
• Jer 23:16 : 16 Thus saith Jehovah of hosts, Hearken not unto the words of the prophets that prophesy unto you: they teach you vanity; they speak a vision of their own heart, and not out of the mouth of Jehovah.
• Lam 2:4 : 4 He hath bent his bow like an enemy, he hath stood with his right hand as an adversary, And hath slain all that were pleasant to the eye: In the tent of the daughter of Zion he hath poured out his wrath like fire.
• Ezek 13:7 : 7 Have ye not seen a false vision, and have ye not spoken a lying divination, in that ye say, Jehovah saith; albeit I have not spoken?
• Ezek 44:21 : 21 Neither shall any of the priests drink wine, when they enter into the inner court.
• Hos 4:11-12 : 11 Whoredom and wine and new wine take away the understanding. 12 My people ask counsel at their stock, and their staff declareth unto them; for the spirit of whoredom hath caused them to err, and they have played the harlot, [departing] from under their God.
• Mic 2:11 : 11 If a man walking in a spirit of falsehood do lie, [saying], I will prophesy unto thee of wine and of strong drink; he shall even be the prophet of this people.
• Prov 31:4-5 : 4 It is not for kings, O Lemuel, it is not for kings to drink wine; Nor for princes [to say], Where is strong drink? 5 Lest they drink, and forget the law, And pervert the justice [due] to any that is afflicted.
• Eph 5:28 : 28 Even so ought husbands also to love their own wives as their own bodies. He that loveth his own wife loveth himself:
• Lev 10:9-9 : 9 Drink no wine nor strong drink, thou, nor thy sons with thee, when ye go into the tent of meeting, that ye die not: it shall be a statute for ever throughout your generations: 10 and that ye may make a distinction between the holy and the common, and between the unclean and the clean;