Isaiah 51:21

Bible in Basic English (1941)

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

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Referenced Verses

  • Isa 29:9 : 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.
  • Isa 51:17 : 17 Awake! awake! up! O Jerusalem, you who have taken from the Lord's hand the cup of his wrath; tasting in full measure the wine which overcomes.
  • Isa 54:11 : 11 O troubled one, storm-crushed, uncomforted! see, your stones will be framed in fair colours, and your bases will be sapphires.

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    22This is the word of the Lord your master, even your God who takes up the cause of his people: See, I have taken out of your hand the cup which overcomes, even the cup of my wrath; it will not again be given to you:

    23And I will put it into the hand of your cruel masters, and of those whose yoke has been hard on you; who have said to your soul, Down on your face! so that we may go over you: and you have given your backs like the earth, even like the street, for them to go over.

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    5Come 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.

  • Isa 51:17
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    17Awake! awake! up! O Jerusalem, you who have taken from the Lord's hand the cup of his wrath; tasting in full measure the wine which overcomes.

  • Isa 29:9
    78%

    9Be 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 31:5-7
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    5For fear that through drinking they may come to have no respect for the law, wrongly judging the cause of those who are in trouble.

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

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

  • Isa 51:19-20
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    19These two things have come on you; who will be weeping for you? wasting and destruction; death from need of food, and from the sword; how may you be comforted?

    20Your sons are overcome, like a roe in a net; they are full of the wrath of the Lord, the punishment of your God.

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    7Babylon has been a gold cup in the hand of the Lord, which has made all the earth overcome with wine: the nations have taken of her wine, and for this cause the nations have gone off their heads.

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

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

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

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

  • Jer 49:12
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    12For the Lord has said, Those for whom the cup was not made ready will certainly be forced to take of it; and are you to go without punishment? you will not be without punishment, but will certainly be forced to take from the cup.

  • Jer 25:27-28
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    27And 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.

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    33You will be broken and full of sorrow, with the cup of wonder and destruction, with the cup of your sister Samaria.

  • Hab 2:15
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    15A 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!

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    1Ho! 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!

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    21Have 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.

  • Prov 20:1
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  • Jer 25:15-17
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    15For 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.

    16And 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.

    17Then I took the cup from the Lord's hand, and gave a drink from it to all the nations to whom the Lord sent me;

  • Jer 13:12-13
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    72%

    12So 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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    11And you will be overcome with wine, you will become feeble; you will be looking for a safe place from those who are fighting against you.

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

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    11Cursed 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!

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    16For 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.

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    71%

    11So 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.

  • Job 24:11
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    11Between the lines of olive-trees they make oil; though they have no drink, they are crushing out the grapes.

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    6Drinking wine in basins, rubbing themselves with the best oils; but they have no grief for the destruction of Joseph.

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    11Loose ways and new wine take away wisdom.

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

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