Isaiah 22:13

Bible in Basic English (1941)

But in place of these there was joy and delight, oxen and sheep were being made ready for food, there was feasting and drinking: men said, Now is the time for food and wine, for tomorrow death comes.

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Referenced Verses

  • Isa 56:12 : 12 Come, they say, I will get wine, and we will take strong drink in full measure; and tomorrow will be like today, full of pleasure.
  • 1 Cor 15:32 : 32 If, after the way of men, I was fighting with beasts at Ephesus, what profit is it to me? If the dead do not come to life again, let us take our pleasure in feasting, for tomorrow we come to an end.
  • Luke 17:26-29 : 26 And as it was in the days of Noah, so will it be in the day of the Son of man. 27 They were feasting and taking wives and getting married, till the day of the overflowing of the waters, when Noah went into the ark, and they all came to destruction. 28 In the same way, in the days of Lot; they were feasting and trading, they were planting and building; 29 But on the day when Lot went out of Sodom, fire came down from heaven and destruction came on them all.
  • Jas 5:5 : 5 You have been living delicately on earth and have taken your pleasure; you have made your hearts fat for a day of destruction.
  • Amos 6:3-7 : 3 You who put far away the evil day, causing the rule of the violent to come near; 4 Who are resting on beds of ivory, stretched out on soft seats, feasting on lambs from the flock and young oxen from the cattle-house; 5 Making foolish songs to the sound of corded instruments, and designing for themselves instruments of music, like David; 6 Drinking wine in basins, rubbing themselves with the best oils; but they have no grief for the destruction of Joseph. 7 So now they will go away prisoners with the first of those who are made prisoners, and the loud cry of those who were stretched out will come to an end.
  • 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.
  • Isa 5:22 : 22 Cursed are those who are strong to take wine, and great in making mixed drinks!
  • Isa 21:4-5 : 4 My mind is wandering, fear has overcome me: the evening of my desire has been turned into shaking for me. 5 They make ready the table, they put down the covers, they take food and drink. Up! you captains; put oil on your breastplates.
  • Isa 28:7-8 : 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. 8 For all the tables are covered with coughed-up food, so that there is not a clean place.

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  • Isa 56:12
    80%

    12 Come, they say, I will get wine, and we will take strong drink in full measure; and tomorrow will be like today, full of pleasure.

  • Isa 22:12
    76%

    12 And in that day the Lord, the Lord of armies, was looking for weeping, and cries of sorrow, cutting off of the hair, and putting on the clothing of grief:

  • Isa 22:14
    75%

    14 And the Lord of armies said to me secretly, Truly, this sin will not be taken from you till your death, says the Lord, the Lord of armies.

  • Eccl 8:15
    73%

    15 So I gave praise to joy, because there is nothing better for a man to do under the sun than to take meat and drink and be happy; for that will be with him in his work all the days of his life which God gives him under the sun.

  • Joel 1:15-16
    2 verses
    73%

    15 Sorrow for the day! for the day of the Lord is near, and as destruction from the Ruler of all it will come.

    16 Is not food cut off before our eyes? joy and delight from the house of our God?

  • Luke 15:23
    73%

    23 And get the fat young ox and put it to death, and let us have a feast, and be glad.

  • Eccl 9:7
    72%

    7 Come, take your bread with joy, and your wine with a glad heart. God has taken pleasure in your works.

  • Isa 25:6
    72%

    6 And in this mountain will the Lord of armies make for all peoples a feast of good things, a feast of wines long stored, of good things sweet to the taste, of wines long kept and tested.

  • Ezek 39:19
    71%

    19 You will go on feasting on the fat till you are full, and drinking the blood till you are overcome with it, of my offering which I have put to death for you.

  • Jer 16:8-9
    2 verses
    71%

    8 And you are not to go into the house of feasting, or be seated with them to take food or drink.

    9 For the Lord of armies, the God of Israel, has said, See, before your eyes and in your days I will put an end in this place to the laughing voices and the voice of joy; to the voice of the newly-married man and the voice of the bride.

  • Joel 1:5
    71%

    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.

  • Hos 9:5
    71%

    5 What will you do on the day of worship, and on the day of the feast of the Lord?

  • Isa 24:11
    71%

    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.

  • Luke 12:19
    71%

    19 And I will say to my soul, Soul, you have a great amount of goods in store, enough for a number of years; be at rest, take food and wine and be happy.

  • Jer 51:39
    71%

    39 When they are heated, I will make a feast for them, and overcome them with wine, so that they may become unconscious, sleeping an eternal sleep without awaking, says the Lord.

  • Neh 8:10
    70%

    10 Then he said to them, Go away now, and take the fat for your food and the sweet for your drink, and send some to him for whom nothing is made ready: for this day is holy to our Lord: and let there be no grief in your hearts; for the joy of the Lord is your strong place.

  • Isa 5:11-12
    2 verses
    70%

    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.

  • Jer 25:26-27
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    70%

    26 And all the kings of the north, far and near, one with another; and all the kingdoms of the world on the face of the earth.

    27 And you are to say to them, This is what the Lord of armies, the God of Israel, has said: Take of this cup and be overcome, and let it come out again from your lips, and from your fall you will never be lifted up again, because of the sword which I will send among you.

  • Jas 5:5
    70%

    5 You have been living delicately on earth and have taken your pleasure; you have made your hearts fat for a day of destruction.

  • Isa 5:22
    70%

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

  • Hab 2:15
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    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!

  • Jer 13:12-13
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    70%

    12 So you are to say this word to them: This is the word of the Lord, the God of Israel: Every skin bottle will be full of wine; and they will say to you, Is it not quite clear to us that every skin bottle will be full of wine?

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  • Isa 24:7-8
    2 verses
    70%

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

    8 The pleasing sound of all instruments of music has come to an end, and the voices of those who are glad.

  • Obad 1:16
    70%

    16 For as you have been drinking on my holy mountain, so will all the nations go on drinking without end; they will go on drinking and the wine will go down their throats, and they will be as if they had never been.

  • Deut 14:26
    69%

    26 And with the money get whatever you have a desire for, oxen or sheep or wine or strong drink, whatever your soul's desire may be: and make a feast there before the Lord your God, and be glad, you and all your house;

  • Prov 31:6
    69%

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

  • Joel 1:13
    69%

    13 Put haircloth round you and give yourselves to sorrow, you priests; give cries of grief, you servants of the altar: come in, and, clothed in haircloth, let the night go past, you servants of my God: for the meal offering and the drink offering have been kept back from the house of your God.

  • Job 1:13
    69%

    13 And there was a day when his sons and daughters were feasting in the house of their oldest brother,

  • Amos 6:7
    69%

    7 So now they will go away prisoners with the first of those who are made prisoners, and the loud cry of those who were stretched out will come to an end.

  • Jer 31:13
    69%

    13 Then the virgin will have joy in the dance, and the young men and the old will be glad: for I will have their weeping turned into joy, I will give them comfort and make them glad after their sorrow.

  • Lam 4:21
    69%

    21 Have joy and be glad, O daughter of Edom, living in the land of Uz: the cup will be given to you in your turn, and you will be overcome with wine and your shame will be seen.

  • Jas 4:13
    69%

    13 How foolish it is to say, Today or tomorrow we will go into this town, and be there for a year and do business there and get wealth:

  • Neh 8:12
    68%

    12 And all the people went away to take food and drink, and to send food to others, and to be glad, because the words which were said to them had been made clear.

  • Eccl 3:13
    68%

    13 And for every man to take food and drink, and have joy in all his work, is a reward from God.

  • Amos 8:10
    68%

    10 Your feasts will be turned into sorrow and all your melody into songs of grief; everyone will be clothed with haircloth, and the hair of every head will be cut; I will make the weeping like that for an only son, and the end of it like a bitter day.

  • 1 Cor 15:32
    68%

    32 If, after the way of men, I was fighting with beasts at Ephesus, what profit is it to me? If the dead do not come to life again, let us take our pleasure in feasting, for tomorrow we come to an end.

  • Zech 7:6
    68%

    6 And when you are feasting and drinking, are you not doing it only for yourselves?

  • Eccl 5:18
    68%

    18 Every man to whom God has given money and wealth and the power to have pleasure in it and to do his part and have joy in his work: this is given by God.

  • Eccl 2:24-25
    2 verses
    68%

    24 There is nothing better for a man than taking meat and drink, and having delight in his work. This again I saw was from the hand of God.

    25 Who may take food or have pleasure without him?

  • Jer 48:33
    68%

    33 All joy is gone; no longer are they glad for the fertile field and for the land of Moab; I have made the wine come to an end from the crushing vessels: no longer will the grapes be crushed with the sound of glad voices.

  • Amos 6:4
    68%

    4 Who are resting on beds of ivory, stretched out on soft seats, feasting on lambs from the flock and young oxen from the cattle-house;

  • Zeph 1:13
    68%

    13 And their wealth will be violently taken away, and their houses will be made waste: they will go on building houses and never living in them, and planting vine-gardens but not drinking the wine from them.

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    68%

    12 The time has come, the day is near: let not him who gives a price for goods be glad, or him who gets the price have sorrow: