Isaiah 5:12

Bible in Basic English (1941)

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.

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  • Job 34:27 : 27 Because they did not go after him, and took no note of his ways,
  • Ps 28:5 : 5 Because they have no respect for the works of the Lord, or for the things which his hands have made, they will be broken down and not lifted up by him.
  • Ps 92:5-6 : 5 O Lord, how great are your works! and your thoughts are very deep. 6 A man without sense has no knowledge of this; and a foolish man may not take it in.
  • Isa 5:19 : 19 Who say, Let him do his work quickly, let him make it sudden, so that we may see it: let the design of the Holy One of Israel come near, so that it may be clear to us.
  • Isa 22:13 : 13 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.
  • Dan 5:1-4 : 1 Belshazzar the king made a great feast for a thousand of his lords, drinking wine before the thousand. 2 Belshazzar, while he was overcome with wine, gave orders for them to put before him the gold and silver vessels which Nebuchadnezzar, his father, had taken from the Temple in Jerusalem; so that the king and his lords, his wives and his other women, might take their drink from them. 3 Then they took in the gold and silver vessels which had been in the Temple of the house of God at Jerusalem; and the king and his lords, his wives and his other women, took wine from them. 4 They took their wine and gave praise to the gods of gold and silver, of brass and iron and wood and stone.
  • Dan 5:23 : 23 But you have been lifting yourself up against the Lord of heaven, and they have put the vessels of his house before you, and you and your lords, your wives and your women, have taken wine in them; and you have given praise to gods of silver and gold, of brass and iron and wood and stone, who are without the power of seeing or hearing, and without knowledge: and to the God in whose hand your breath is, and whose are all your ways, you have not given glory;
  • Hos 4:10-11 : 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. 11 Loose ways and new wine take away wisdom.
  • Amos 6:4-6 : 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.
  • Luke 16:19 : 19 Now there was a certain man of great wealth, who was dressed in fair clothing of purple and delicate linen, and was shining and glad every day.
  • Jude 1:12 : 12 These men are unseen rocks at your love-feasts, when they take part in them with you, keepers of sheep who without fear take the food of the sheep; clouds without water rushing before the wind, wasted trees without fruit, twice dead, pulled up by the roots,
  • Gen 31:27 : 27 Why did you make a secret of your flight, not giving me word of it, so that I might have sent you away with joy and songs, with melody and music?
  • Job 21:11-14 : 11 They send out their young ones like a flock, and their children have pleasure in the dance, 12 They make songs to the instruments of music, and are glad at the sound of the pipe. 13 Their days come to an end without trouble, and suddenly they go down to the underworld. 14 Though they said to God, Go away from us, for we have no desire for the knowledge of your ways.

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  • Job 21:12
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  • Amos 6:4-7
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    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 24:7-9
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    7 The new wine is thin, the vine is feeble, and all the glad-hearted make sounds of grief.

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  • Isa 5:13
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    13 For this cause my people are taken away as prisoners into strange countries for need of knowledge: and their rulers are wasted for need of food, and their loud-voiced feasters are dry for need of water.

  • Amos 5:23
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    23 Take away from me the noise of your songs; my ears are shut to the melody of your instruments.

  • Joel 1:5
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    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.

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    5 Because they have no respect for the works of the Lord, or for the things which his hands have made, they will be broken down and not lifted up by him.

  • Hos 7:14
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    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.

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

  • Hos 9:5
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    5 What will you do on the day of worship, and on the day of the feast of the Lord?

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    10 And all joy is gone; no longer are they glad for the fertile field; and in the vine-gardens there are no songs or sounds of joy: the crushing of grapes has come to an end, and its glad cry has been stopped.

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    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.

  • 2 Sam 6:5
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    5 And David and all the men of Israel made melody before the Lord with all their power, with songs and with corded instruments and instruments of brass.

  • Hos 4:10-11
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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.

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  • Ps 149:3
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    3 Let them give praise to his name in the dance: let them make melody to him with instruments of brass and corded instruments of music.

  • Hos 9:2
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    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.

  • Jer 16:8
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    8 And you are not to go into the house of feasting, or be seated with them to take food or drink.

  • Lam 5:14-15
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    14 The old men are no longer seated in the doorway, and the music of the young men has come to an end.

    15 The joy of our hearts is ended; our dancing is changed into sorrow.

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    4 They took their wine and gave praise to the gods of gold and silver, of brass and iron and wood and stone.

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    22 And the voice of players and makers of music will never again be sounding in you: and no worker, expert in art, will ever again be living in you; and there will be no sound of the crushing of grain any more at all in you;

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    32 They are like children who are seated in the market-place, crying out to one another, and saying, We made music for you, but you did not take part in the dance; we gave cries of sorrow, but you were not sad.

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    13 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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    17 We made music for you and you did not take part in the dance; we gave cries of sorrow and you made no signs of grief.

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    11 Between the lines of olive-trees they make oil; though they have no drink, they are crushing out the grapes.

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    5 On the day of our king, the rulers made him ill with the heat of wine; his hand was stretched out with the men of pride.

  • Jer 31:12
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    12 So they will come with songs on the high places, flowing together to the good things of the Lord, to the grain and the wine and the oil, to the young ones of the flock and of the herd: their souls will be like a watered garden, and they will have no more sorrow.

  • Amos 5:11
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    11 So because the poor man is crushed under your feet, and you take taxes from him of grain: you have made for yourselves houses of cut stone, but you will not take your rest in them; the fair vine-gardens planted by your hands will not give you wine.

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    4 Give him praise with instruments of brass and in the dance: give him praise with horns and corded instruments.

  • Ps 98:5
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    5 Make melody to the Lord with instruments of music; with a corded instrument and the voice of song.

  • Eccl 12:4
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    4 When the doors are shut in the street, and the sound of the crushing is low, and the voice of the bird is soft, and the daughters of music will be made low;

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

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    15 You will put in seed, but you will not get in the grain; you will be crushing olives, but your bodies will not be rubbed with the oil; and you will get in the grapes, but you will have no wine.

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  • Ezek 33:32
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    32 And truly you are to them like a love song by one who has a very pleasing voice and is an expert player on an instrument: for they give ear to your words but do them not.

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    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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    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.

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    2 Take up the melody, playing on an instrument of music, even on corded instruments.