Isaiah 5:11

King James Version with Strong's Numbers

Woe unto them that rise up early in the morning, that they may follow strong drink; that continue until night, till wine inflame them!

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

ה֛וֹי מַשְׁכִּימֵ֥י בַבֹּ֖קֶר שֵׁכָ֣ר יִרְדֹּ֑פוּ מְאַחֲרֵ֣י בַנֶּ֔שֶׁף יַ֖יִן יַדְלִיקֵֽם׃

Transliteration

hôy those who maškîmê in the babbōqer šēkār yirdōpû, those who məʾaḥărê until the bannešep yayin yadlîqēm.

Grammar Details

*hôy*: interjection - woe
*maškîmê*: hiphil participle masculine plural construct - rising early
*babbōqer*: definite article with preposition with masculine singular noun - in the morning
*šēkār*: masculine singular noun - strong drink
*yirdōpû*: qal imperfect 3rd person masculine plural - they pursue
*məʾaḥărê*: piel participle masculine plural construct - delaying/tarrying
*bannešep*: definite article with preposition with masculine singular noun - in the twilight/evening
*yayin*: masculine singular noun - wine
*yadlîqēm*: hiphil imperfect 3rd person masculine singular with 3rd person masculine plural suffix - inflames them

Word Meanings

*maškîmê*: rising early/doing early in the morning
*šēkār*: strong drink/intoxicating beverage
*məʾaḥărê*: delaying/tarrying/staying late
*bannešep*: twilight/evening/dusk
*yadlîqēm*: inflames/burns/kindles them

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Referenced Verses

Prov 23:29-30 : 29 Who hath woe? who hath sorrow? who hath contentions? who hath babbling? who hath wounds without cause? who hath redness of eyes? 30 They that tarry long at the wine; they that go to seek mixed wine.
Isa 5:22 : 22 Woe unto them that are mighty to drink wine, and men of strength to mingle strong drink:
Eccl 10:16-17 : 16 Woe to thee, O land, when thy king is a child, and thy princes eat in the morning! 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!
Prov 20:1 : 1 Wine is a mocker, strong drink is raging: and whosoever is deceived thereby is not wise.
Isa 28:1 : 1 Woe to the crown of pride, to the drunkards of Ephraim, whose glorious beauty is a fading flower, which are on the head of the fat valleys of them that are overcome with wine!
Isa 28:7-8 : 7 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. 8 For all tables are full of vomit and filthiness, so that there is no place clean.
Rom 13:13 : 13 Let us walk honestly, as in the day; not in rioting and drunkenness, not in chambering and wantonness, not in strife and envying.
1 Cor 6:10 : 10 Nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners, shall inherit the kingdom of God.
Gal 5:21 : 21 Envyings, murders, drunkenness, revellings, and such like: of the which I tell you before, as I have also told you in time past, that they which do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God.
1 Thess 5:6-7 : 6 Therefore let us not sleep, as do others; but let us watch and be sober. 7 For they that sleep sleep in the night; and they that be drunken are drunken in the night.
Hos 7:5-6 : 5 In the day of our king the princes have made him sick with bottles of wine; he stretched out his hand with scorners. 6 For they have made ready their heart like an oven, whiles they lie in wait: their baker sleepeth all the night; in the morning it burneth as a flaming fire.
Hab 2:15 : 15 Woe unto him that giveth his neighbour drink, that puttest thy bottle to him, and makest him drunken also, that thou mayest look on their nakedness!
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.
Prov 23:32 : 32 At the last it biteth like a serpent, and stingeth like an adder.

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