Isaiah 5:22

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

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  • Isa 5:11 : 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!
  • 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.
  • Hab 2:15 : 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!
  • 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.
  • Isa 28:1-3 : 1 Ho! crown of pride of those who are given up to wine in Ephraim, and the dead flower of his glory which is on the head of those who are overcome by strong drink! 2 See, the Lord has a strong and cruel one; like a rain of ice, a storm of destruction, like the overflowing of a strong river, he will violently overcome them. 3 The crown of pride of those who are given up to wine in Ephraim will be crushed under foot;
  • Prov 23:19-20 : 19 Give ear, my son, and be wise, guiding your heart in the right way. 20 Do not be among those who give themselves to wine-drinking, or among those who make themselves full with meat:

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  • 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.

  • Isa 5:20-21
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    20 Cursed are those who give the name of good to evil, and of evil to what is good: who make light dark, and dark light: who make bitter sweet, and sweet bitter!

    21 Cursed are those who seem wise to themselves, and who take pride in their knowledge!

  • 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!

  • Prov 20:1
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    1 Wine makes men foolish, and strong drink makes men come to blows; and whoever comes into error through these is not wise.

  • Isa 24:9
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    9 There is no more drinking of wine with a song; strong drink will be bitter to those who take it.

  • 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.

  • Prov 31:4-7
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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:

    7 Let him have drink, and his need will go from his mind, and the memory of his trouble will be gone.

  • Isa 28:7
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    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.

  • Isa 28:1
    76%

    1 Ho! crown of pride of those who are given up to wine in Ephraim, and the dead flower of his glory which is on the head of those who are overcome by strong drink!

  • Prov 23:29-31
    3 verses
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    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:

  • Prov 4:17
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    17 The bread of evil-doing is their food, the wine of violent acts their drink.

  • Isa 56:12
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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.

  • Hab 2:5
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    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.

  • Isa 51:21
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    21 So now give ear to this, you who are troubled and overcome, but not with wine:

  • Isa 29:9
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    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.

  • Prov 23:20-21
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    20 Do not be among those who give themselves to wine-drinking, or among those who make themselves full with meat:

    21 For those who take delight in drink and feasting will come to be in need; and through love of sleep a man will be poorly clothed.

  • Isa 5:23
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    23 Who for a reward give support to the cause of the sinner, and who take away the righteousness of the upright from him.

  • 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.

  • Mic 2:11
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    11 If a man came with a false spirit of deceit, saying, I will be a prophet to you of wine and strong drink: he would be the sort of prophet for this people.

  • Isa 1:22
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    22 Your silver is no longer true metal, your wine is mixed with water.

  • Ps 75:8
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    8 For in the hand of the Lord is a cup, and the wine is red; it is well mixed, overflowing from his hand: he will make all the sinners of the earth take of it, even to the last drop.

  • Hos 4:11
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    11 Loose ways and new wine take away wisdom.

  • Isa 5:18
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    18 Cursed are those who make use of ox-cords for pulling the evil thing, and the bands of a young ox for their sin!

  • Isa 10:1
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    1 Cursed are those who make evil decisions, and the writers who make the records of their cruel acts:

  • Job 24:11
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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.

  • Dan 5:4
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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.

  • 1 Thess 5:7
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    7 For those who are sleeping do so in the night; and those who are the worse for drink are so in the night;

  • Amos 6:1
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    1 Sorrow to those who are resting in comfort in Zion, and to those who have no fear of danger in the mountain of Samaria, the noted men of the chief of the nations, to whom the people of Israel come!

  • Job 12:25
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    25 They go feeling about in the dark without light, wandering without help like those overcome with wine.

  • Jer 25:15-16
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    70%

    15 For this is what the Lord, the God of Israel, has said to me: Take the cup of the wine of this wrath from my hand, and make all the nations to whom I send you take of it.

    16 And after drinking it, they will go rolling from side to side, and be off their heads, because of the sword which I will send among them.

  • Isa 22:13
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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.

  • Amos 2:8
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    8 By every altar they are stretched on clothing taken from those who are in their debt, drinking in the house of their god the wine of those who have made payment for wrongdoing.

  • Ps 107:27
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    27 They are turned here and there, rolling like a man who is full of wine; and all their wisdom comes to nothing.

  • Hos 7:5
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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.

  • 1 Tim 5:23
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    23 Do not take only water as your drink, but take a little wine for the good of your stomach, and because you are frequently ill.

  • Hab 2:12
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    12 A curse on him who is building a place with blood, and basing a town on evil-doing!

  • Amos 6:6
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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.

  • Nah 1:10
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    10 For though they are like twisted thorns, and are overcome as with drink, they will come to destruction like stems of grass fully dry.

  • Jer 13:13
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    13 Then you are to say to them, The Lord has said, I will make all the people of this land, even the kings seated on David's seat, and the priests and the prophets and all the people of Jerusalem, overcome with strong drink.

  • Jer 25:28
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    28 And it will be, if they will not take of the cup in your hand, then you are to say to them, This is what the Lord of armies has said: You will certainly take of it.