Isaiah 5:11

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

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!

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

ה֛וֹי מַשְׁכִּימֵ֥י בַבֹּ֖קֶר שֵׁכָ֣ר יִרְדֹּ֑פוּ מְאַחֲרֵ֣י בַנֶּ֔שֶׁף יַ֖יִן יַדְלִיקֵֽם׃

Transliteration

hôy those who maškîmê in the babbōqer šēkār yirdōpû, those who məʾaḥărê until the bannešep yayin yadlîqēm.

Grammar Details

• *hôy*: interjection - woe
• *maškîmê*: hiphil participle masculine plural construct - rising early
• *babbōqer*: definite article with preposition with masculine singular noun - in the morning
• *šēkār*: masculine singular noun - strong drink
• *yirdōpû*: qal imperfect 3rd person masculine plural - they pursue
• *məʾaḥărê*: piel participle masculine plural construct - delaying/tarrying
• *bannešep*: definite article with preposition with masculine singular noun - in the twilight/evening
• *yayin*: masculine singular noun - wine
• *yadlîqēm*: hiphil imperfect 3rd person masculine singular with 3rd person masculine plural suffix - inflames them

Word Meanings

• *maškîmê*: rising early/doing early in the morning
• *šēkār*: strong drink/intoxicating beverage
• *məʾaḥărê*: delaying/tarrying/staying late
• *bannešep*: twilight/evening/dusk
• *yadlîqēm*: inflames/burns/kindles them

Referenced Verses

• Prov 23:29-30 : 29 Who hath woe? who hath sorrow? who hath contentions? Who hath complaining? who hath wounds without cause? Who hath redness of eyes? 30 They that tarry long at the wine; They that go to seek out mixed wine.
• Isa 5:22 : 22 Woe unto them that are mighty to drink wine, and men of strength to mingle strong drink;
• Eccl 10:16-17 : 16 Woe to thee, O land, when thy king is a child, and thy princes eat in the morning! 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!
• Prov 20:1 : 1 Wine is a mocker, strong drink a brawler; And whosoever erreth thereby is not wise.
• Isa 28:1 : 1 Woe to the crown of pride of the drunkards of Ephraim, and to the fading flower of his glorious beauty, which is on the head of the fat valley of them that are overcome with wine!
• Isa 28:7-8 : 7 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. 8 For all tables are full of vomit [and] filthiness, [so that there is] no place [clean].
• Rom 13:13 : 13 Let us walk becomingly, as in the day; not in revelling and drunkenness, not in chambering and wantonness, not in strife and jealousy.
• 1 Cor 6:10 : 10 nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners, shall inherit the kingdom of God.
• Gal 5:21 : 21 envyings, {G5408} drunkenness, revellings, and such like; of which I forewarn you, even as I did {G2532} forewarn you, that they who practise such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God.
• 1 Thess 5:6-7 : 6 so then let us not sleep, as do the rest, but let us watch and be sober. 7 For they that sleep sleep in the night: and they that are drunken are drunken in the night.
• Hos 7:5-6 : 5 On the day of our king the princes made themselves sick with the heat of wine; he stretched out his hand with scoffers. 6 For they have made ready their heart like an oven, while they lie in wait: their baker sleepeth all the night; in the morning it burneth as a flaming fire.
• Hab 2:15 : 15 Woe unto him that giveth his neighbor drink, to thee that addest thy venom, and makest him drunken also, that thou mayest look on their nakedness!
• 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:
• Prov 23:32 : 32 At the last it biteth like a serpent, And stingeth like an adder.