Hosea 4:11

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Loose ways and new wine take away wisdom.

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  • Prov 20:1 : 1 Wine makes men foolish, and strong drink makes men come to blows; and whoever comes into error through these is not wise.
  • Isa 28:7 : 7 And further, these are uncertain through wine, and have gone out of the right way through strong drink: the priest and the prophet are uncertain through strong drink, they are overcome by wine, they have gone out of the way through strong drink; their vision is false, they go wrong in their decisions.
  • Luke 21:34 : 34 But give attention to yourselves, for fear that your hearts become over-full of the pleasures of food and wine, and the cares of this life, and that day may come on you suddenly, and take you as in a net:
  • Isa 5:12 : 12 And corded instruments and wind-instruments and wine are in their feasts: but they give no thought to the work of the Lord, and they are not interested in what his hands are doing.
  • Prov 6:32 : 32 He who takes another man's wife is without all sense: he who does it is the cause of destruction to his soul.
  • Prov 23:27-35 : 27 For a loose woman is a deep hollow, and a strange woman is a narrow water-hole. 28 Yes, she is waiting secretly like a beast for its food, and deceit by her is increased among men. 29 Who says, Oh! who says, Ah! who has violent arguments, who has grief, who has wounds without cause, whose eyes are dark? 30 Those who are seated late over the wine: those who go looking for mixed wine. 31 Keep your eyes from looking on the wine when it is red, when its colour is bright in the cup, when it goes smoothly down: 32 In the end, its bite is like that of a snake, its wound like the wound of a poison-snake. 33 Your eyes will see strange things, and you will say twisted things. 34 Yes, you will be like him who takes his rest on the sea, or on the top of a sail-support. 35 They have overcome me, you will say, and I have no pain; they gave me blows without my feeling them: when will I be awake from my wine? I will go after it again.
  • Eccl 7:7 : 7 The wise are troubled by the ways of the cruel, and the giving of money is the destruction of the heart.
  • Rom 13:11-14 : 11 See then that the time has come for you to be awake from sleep: for now is your salvation nearer than when you first had faith. 12 The night is far gone, and the day is near: so let us put off the works of the dark, arming ourselves with light, 13 With right behaviour as in the day; not in pleasure-making and drinking, not in bad company and unclean behaviour, not in fighting and envy. 14 But put on the Lord Jesus Christ, and do not give thought to the flesh to do its desires.
  • Hos 4:12 : 12 My people get knowledge from their tree, and their rod gives them news; for a false spirit is the cause of their wandering, and they have been false to their God.

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  • 10 They will have food, but they will not be full; they will be false to me, but they will not be increased, because they no longer give thought to the Lord.

  • 5 Come out of your sleep, you who are overcome with wine, and give yourselves to weeping; give cries of sorrow, all you drinkers of wine, because of the sweet wine; for it has been cut off from your mouths.

  • 12 My people get knowledge from their tree, and their rod gives them news; for a false spirit is the cause of their wandering, and they have been false to their God.

  • 18 Their drink has become bitter; they are completely false; her rulers take pleasure in shame.

  • 7 The new wine is thin, the vine is feeble, and all the glad-hearted make sounds of grief.

  • 1 Wine makes men foolish, and strong drink makes men come to blows; and whoever comes into error through these is not wise.

  • Isa 5:11-12
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    11 Cursed are those who get up early in the morning to give themselves up to strong drink; who keep on drinking far into the night till they are heated with wine!

    12 And corded instruments and wind-instruments and wine are in their feasts: but they give no thought to the work of the Lord, and they are not interested in what his hands are doing.

  • 2 The grain-floor and the place where the grapes are crushed will not give them food; there will be no new wine for them.

  • Prov 31:4-6
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    4 It is not for kings, O Lemuel, it is not for kings to take wine, or for rulers to say, Where is strong drink?

    5 For fear that through drinking they may come to have no respect for the law, wrongly judging the cause of those who are in trouble.

    6 Give strong drink to him who is near to destruction, and wine to him whose soul is bitter:

  • 4 Their works will not let them come back to their God, for a false spirit is in them and they have no knowledge of the Lord.

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    30 Those who are seated late over the wine: those who go looking for mixed wine.

    31 Keep your eyes from looking on the wine when it is red, when its colour is bright in the cup, when it goes smoothly down:

  • 17 The bread of evil-doing is their food, the wine of violent acts their drink.

  • 15 A curse on him who gives his neighbour the wine of his wrath, making him overcome with strong drink from the cup of his passion, so that you may be a witness of their shame!

  • 11 There is a crying in the streets because of the wine; there is an end of all delight, the joy of the land is gone.

  • 7 And further, these are uncertain through wine, and have gone out of the right way through strong drink: the priest and the prophet are uncertain through strong drink, they are overcome by wine, they have gone out of the way through strong drink; their vision is false, they go wrong in their decisions.

  • 2 With whom the kings of the earth made themselves unclean, and those who are on the earth were full of the wine of her evil desires.

  • 9 There is no more drinking of wine with a song; strong drink will be bitter to those who take it.

  • 3 For through the wine of the wrath of her evil desires all the nations have come to destruction; and the kings of the earth made themselves unclean with her, and the traders of the earth had their wealth increased by the power of her evil ways.

  • 39 And no man, having had old wine, has any desire for new, for he says, The old is better.

  • 30 How feeble is your heart, says the Lord, seeing that you do all these things, the work of a loose and overruling woman;

  • 5 A curse on the cruel and false one! the man full of pride, who never has enough; who makes his desires wide as the underworld! he is like death; he is never full, but he makes all nations come to him, getting all peoples together to himself.

  • 4 Because of all the false ways of the loose woman, expert in attraction and wise in secret arts, who takes nations in the net of her false ways, and families through her secret arts.

  • 14 And Eli said to her, How long are you going to be the worse for drink? Put away the effects of your wine from you.

  • 1 And the Lord said to me, Give your love again to a woman who has a lover and is false to her husband, even as the Lord has love for the children of Israel, though they are turned to other gods and are lovers of grape-cakes.

  • 22 Cursed are those who are strong to take wine, and great in making mixed drinks!

  • 20 Do not be among those who give themselves to wine-drinking, or among those who make themselves full with meat:

  • 26 For a loose woman is looking for a cake of bread, but another man's wife goes after one's very life.

  • 9 So that through all her loose behaviour the land became unclean, and she was untrue, giving herself to stones and trees.

  • 22 Your silver is no longer true metal, your wine is mixed with water.

  • 35 For this cause, O loose woman, give ear to the voice of the Lord:

  • 17 Who is false to the husband of her early years, and does not keep the agreement of her God in mind:

  • 5 For their mother has been untrue; she who gave them birth has done things of shame, for she said, I will go after my lovers, who give me my bread and my water, my wool and my linen, my oil and my wine.

  • 17 And the Babylonians came to her, into the bed of love, and made her unclean with their loose desire, and she became unclean with them, and her soul was turned from them.

  • 20 Why let yourself, my son, go out of the way with a strange woman, and take another woman in your arms?

  • 14 And they have not made prayer to me in their hearts, but they make loud cries on their beds; they are cutting themselves for food and wine, they are turned against me.

  • 37 And no man puts new wine into old wine-skins, for fear that the skins will be burst by the new wine, and the wine be let out, and the skins come to destruction.

  • 21 So now give ear to this, you who are troubled and overcome, but not with wine:

  • 15 About Judah. What have you to do in my house? is it your thought that oaths and holy flesh will get you out of your trouble? will you make yourself safe in this way?

  • 9 Be surprised and full of wonder; let your eyes be covered and be blind: be overcome, but not with wine; go with uncertain steps, but not because of strong drink.

  • 32 The untrue wife who takes strange lovers in place of her husband!

  • 17 And you took the fair jewels, my silver and gold which I had given to you, and made for yourself male images, acting like a loose woman with them;

  • 25 Let not your heart be turned to her ways, do not go wandering in her footsteps.

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    4 Whoever is simple, let him come in here; and to him who has no sense, she says:

    5 Come, take of my bread, and of my wine which is mixed.

  • 10 The fields are wasted, the land has become dry; for the grain is wasted, the new wine is kept back, the oil is poor.