Isaiah 28:7

King James Version with Strong's Numbers

But they also have erred through wine, and through strong drink are out of the way; the priest and the prophet have erred through strong drink, they are swallowed up of wine, they are out of the way through strong drink; they err in vision, they stumble in judgment.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

וְגַם־אֵלֶּה בַּיַּיִן שָׁגוּ וּבַשֵּׁכָר תָּעוּ כֹּהֵן וְנָבִיא שָׁגוּ בַשֵּׁכָר נִבְלְעוּ מִן־הַיַּיִן תָּעוּ מִן־הַשֵּׁכָר שָׁגוּ בָּרֹאֶה פָּקוּ פְּלִילִיָּה

Transliteration

And-also-ʾēlleh with-yayin šāḡû and-with-šēḵār tāʿû kōhēn and-nāḇîʾ šāḡû with-šēḵār niḇləʿû from-hayyayin tāʿû from-haššēḵār šāḡû in-bārōʾeh pāqû pəlîliyyāh

Grammar Details

• *ʾēlleh*: demonstrative pronoun - these
• *yayin*: masculine singular noun - wine
• *šāḡû*: qal perfect 3rd common plural - they reel
• *šēḵār*: masculine singular noun - strong drink
• *tāʿû*: qal perfect 3rd common plural - they stagger
• *kōhēn*: masculine singular noun - priest
• *nāḇîʾ*: masculine singular noun - prophet
• *niḇləʿû*: niphal perfect 3rd common plural - they are swallowed up
• *hayyayin*: definite article + masculine singular noun - the wine
• *haššēḵār*: definite article + masculine singular noun - the strong drink
• *bārōʾeh*: preposition + definite article + qal participle masculine singular - in the seeing
• *pāqû*: qal perfect 3rd common plural - they stumble
• *pəlîliyyāh*: feminine singular noun - judgment

Word Meanings

• *šāḡû*: reel/err/go astray
• *tāʿû*: stagger/wander/go astray
• *niḇləʿû*: are swallowed up/consumed/overwhelmed
• *bārōʾeh*: in the seeing/in vision/in prophecy
• *pāqû*: stumble/totter/fail
• *pəlîliyyāh*: judgment/decision/office

Referenced Verses

• Isa 19:14 : 14 The LORD hath mingled a perverse spirit in the midst thereof: and they have caused Egypt to err in every work thereof, as a drunken man staggereth in his vomit.
• Isa 56:10-12 : 10 His watchmen are blind: they are all ignorant, they are all dumb dogs, they cannot bark; sleeping, lying down, loving to slumber. 11 Yea, they are greedy dogs which can never have enough, and they are shepherds that cannot understand: they all look to their own way, every one for his gain, from his quarter. 12 Come ye, say they, I will fetch wine, and we will fill ourselves with strong drink; and to morrow shall be as this day, and much more abundant.
• Matt 24:29 : 29 Immediately after the tribulation of those days shall the sun be darkened, and the moon shall not give her light, and the stars shall fall from heaven, and the powers of the heavens shall be shaken:
• Luke 21:34 : 34 And take heed to yourselves, lest at any time your hearts be overcharged with surfeiting, and drunkenness, and cares of this life, and so that day come upon you unawares.
• Ps 107:27 : 27 They reel to and fro, and stagger like a drunken man, and are at their wits' end.
• Prov 20:1 : 1 Wine is a mocker, strong drink is raging: and whosoever is deceived thereby is not wise.
• Eccl 10:17 : 17 Blessed art thou, O land, when thy king is the son of nobles, and thy princes eat in due season, for strength, and not for drunkenness!
• Isa 3:12 : 12 As for my people, children are their oppressors, and women rule over them. O my people, they which lead thee cause thee to err, and destroy the way of thy paths.
• Isa 5:11 : 11 Woe unto them that rise up early in the morning, that they may follow strong drink; that continue until night, till wine inflame them!
• Isa 5:22 : 22 Woe unto them that are mighty to drink wine, and men of strength to mingle strong drink:
• Isa 9:15-16 : 15 The ancient and honourable, he is the head; and the prophet that teacheth lies, he is the tail. 16 For the leaders of this people cause them to err; and they that are led of them are destroyed.
• Isa 22:13 : 13 And behold joy and gladness, slaying oxen, and killing sheep, eating flesh, and drinking wine: let us eat and drink; for to morrow we shall die.
• Isa 24:2 : 2 And it shall be, as with the people, so with the priest; as with the servant, so with his master; as with the maid, so with her mistress; as with the buyer, so with the seller; as with the lender, so with the borrower; as with the taker of usury, so with the giver of usury to him.
• Isa 29:11 : 11 And the vision of all is become unto you as the words of a book that is sealed, which men deliver to one that is learned, saying, Read this, I pray thee: and he saith, I cannot; for it is sealed:
• Jer 14:14 : 14 Then the LORD said unto me, The prophets prophesy lies in my name: I sent them not, neither have I commanded them, neither spake unto them: they prophesy unto you a false vision and divination, and a thing of nought, and the deceit of their heart.
• Jer 23:13 : 13 And I have seen folly in the prophets of Samaria; they prophesied in Baal, and caused my people Israel to err.
• Jer 23:16 : 16 Thus saith the LORD of hosts, Hearken not unto the words of the prophets that prophesy unto you: they make you vain: they speak a vision of their own heart, and not out of the mouth of the LORD.
• Lam 2:4 : 4 He hath bent his bow like an enemy: he stood with his right hand as an adversary, and slew all that were pleasant to the eye in the tabernacle of the daughter of Zion: he poured out his fury like fire.
• Ezek 13:7 : 7 Have ye not seen a vain vision, and have ye not spoken a lying divination, whereas ye say, The LORD saith it; albeit I have not spoken?
• Ezek 44:21 : 21 Neither shall any priest drink wine, when they enter into the inner court.
• Hos 4:11-12 : 11 Whoredom and wine and new wine take away the heart. 12 My people ask counsel at their stocks, and their staff declareth unto them: for the spirit of whoredoms hath caused them to err, and they have gone a whoring from under their God.
• Mic 2:11 : 11 If a man walking in the spirit and falsehood do lie, saying, I will prophesy unto thee of wine and of strong drink; he shall even be the prophet of this people.
• Prov 31:4-5 : 4 It is not for kings, O Lemuel, it is not for kings to drink wine; nor for princes strong drink: 5 Lest they drink, and forget the law, and pervert the judgment of any of the afflicted.
• Eph 5:28 : 28 So ought men to love their wives as their own bodies. He that loveth his wife loveth himself.
• Lev 10:9-9 : 9 Do not drink wine nor strong drink, thou, nor thy sons with thee, when ye go into the tabernacle of the congregation, lest ye die: it shall be a statute for ever throughout your generations: 10 And that ye may put difference between holy and unholy, and between unclean and clean;