Isaiah 24:9
They no longer sing and drink wine; the beer tastes bitter to those who drink it.
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- Isa 5:22 : 22 Beware, those who are champions at drinking, who display great courage when mixing strong drinks.
- Eccl 9:7 : 7 Life is Brief, so Cherish its Joys Go, eat your food with joy, and drink your wine with a happy heart, because God has already approved your works.
- Isa 5:11-12 : 11 Beware, those who get up early to drink beer, those who keep drinking long after dark until they are intoxicated with wine. 12 They have stringed instruments, tambourines, flutes, and wine at their parties. So they do not recognize what the LORD is doing, they do not perceive what he is bringing about.
- Isa 5:20 : 20 Beware, those who call evil good and good evil, who turn darkness into light and light into darkness, who turn bitter into sweet and sweet into bitter.
- Ps 69:12 : 12 Those who sit at the city gate gossip about me; drunkards mock me in their songs.
- Eph 5:18-19 : 18 And do not get drunk with wine, which is debauchery, but be filled by the Spirit, 19 speaking to one another in psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs, singing and making music in your hearts to the Lord,
- Amos 6:5-7 : 5 They sing to the tune of stringed instruments; like David they invent musical instruments. 6 They drink wine from sacrificial bowls, and pour the very best oils on themselves. Yet they are not concerned over the ruin of Joseph. 7 Therefore they will now be the first to go into exile, and the religious banquets where they sprawl on couches will end.
- Amos 8:3 : 3 The women singing in the temple will wail in that day.” The Sovereign LORD is speaking.“There will be many corpses littered everywhere! Be quiet!”
- Amos 8:10 : 10 I will turn your festivals into funerals, and all your songs into funeral dirges. I will make everyone wear funeral clothes and cause every head to be shaved bald. I will make you mourn as if you had lost your only son; when it ends it will indeed have been a bitter day.
- Zech 9:15 : 15 The LORD of Heaven’s Armies will guard them, and they will prevail and overcome with sling stones. Then they will drink, and will become noisy like drunkards, full like the sacrificial basin or like the corners of the altar.
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10 The ruined town is shattered; all of the houses are shut up tight.
11 They howl in the streets because of what happened to the wine; all joy turns to sorrow; celebrations disappear from the earth.
- Isa 24:7-82 verses78%
7 The new wine dries up, the vines shrivel up, all those who like to celebrate groan.
8 The happy sound of the tambourines stops, the revelry of those who celebrate comes to a halt, the happy sound of the harp ceases.
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22 Beware, those who are champions at drinking, who display great courage when mixing strong drinks.
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9 God’s People Are Spiritually Insensitive You will be shocked and amazed! You are totally blind! They are drunk, but not because of wine; they stagger, but not because of beer.
- Prov 31:4-74 verses78%
4 It is not for kings, O Lemuel, it is not for kings to drink wine, or for rulers to crave strong drink,
5 lest they drink and forget what is decreed, and remove from all the poor their legal rights.
6 Give strong drink to the one who is perishing, and wine to those who are bitterly distressed;
7 let them drink and forget their poverty, and remember their misery no more.
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5 Wake up, you drunkards, and weep! Wail, all you wine drinkers, because the sweet wine has been taken away from you.
- Prov 23:30-312 verses77%
30 Those who linger over wine, those who go looking for mixed wine.
31 Do not look on the wine when it is red, when it sparkles in the cup, when it goes down smoothly.
- Isa 5:11-122 verses77%
11 Beware, those who get up early to drink beer, those who keep drinking long after dark until they are intoxicated with wine.
12 They have stringed instruments, tambourines, flutes, and wine at their parties. So they do not recognize what the LORD is doing, they do not perceive what he is bringing about.
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11 They press out the olive oil between the rows of olive trees; they tread the winepresses while they are thirsty.
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1 Wine is a mocker and strong drink is a brawler; whoever goes astray by them is not wise.
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17 Indeed they have eaten bread gained from wickedness and drink wine obtained from violence.
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10 Joy and happiness disappear from the orchards, and in the vineyards no one rejoices or shouts; no one treads out juice in the wine vats– I have brought the joyful shouts to an end.
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2 Threshing floors and wine vats will not feed the people, and new wine only deceives them.
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7 Even these men stagger because of wine, they stumble around because of beer– priests and prophets stagger because of beer, they are confused because of wine, they stumble around because of beer; they stagger while seeing prophetic visions, they totter while making legal decisions.
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21 So listen to this, oppressed one, who is drunk, but not from wine!
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15 “Woe to you who force your neighbor to drink wine– you who make others intoxicated by forcing them to drink from the bowl of your furious anger, so you can look at their naked bodies.
- Jer 16:7-82 verses73%
7 No one will take any food to those who mourn for the dead to comfort them. No one will give them any wine to drink to console them for the loss of their father or mother.
8 “‘Do not go to a house where people are feasting and sit down to eat and drink with them either.
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11 Judgment of Pagan Idolatry and Cultic Prostitution Old and new wine take away the understanding of my people.
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20 Do not spend time among drunkards, among those who eat too much meat,
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16 When they have drunk it, they will stagger to and fro and act insane. For I will send wars sweeping through them.”
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12 Those who sit at the city gate gossip about me; drunkards mock me in their songs.
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12 Each one says,‘Come on, I’ll get some wine! Let’s guzzle some beer! Tomorrow will be just like today! We’ll have everything we want!’
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32 For their vine is from the stock of Sodom, and from the fields of Gomorrah. Their grapes contain venom, their clusters of grapes are bitter.
33 Their wine is snakes’ poison, the deadly venom of cobras.
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10 Surely they will be totally consumed like entangled thorn bushes, like the drink of drunkards, like very dry stubble.
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28 If they refuse to take the cup from your hand and drink it, tell them that the LORD of Heaven’s Armies says‘You most certainly must drink it!
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4 They will not pour out drink offerings of wine to the LORD; they will not please him with their sacrifices. Their sacrifices will be like bread eaten while in mourning; all those who eat them will make themselves ritually unclean. For their bread will be only to satisfy their appetite; it will not come into the temple of the LORD.
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8 For the LORD holds in his hand a cup full of foaming wine mixed with spices, and pours it out. Surely all the wicked of the earth will slurp it up and drink it to its very last drop.”
- Jer 13:12-132 verses71%
12 “So tell them,‘The LORD, the God of Israel, says,“Every wine jar is made to be filled with wine.”’ And they will probably say to you,‘Do you not think we know that every wine jar is supposed to be filled with wine?’
13 Then tell them,‘The LORD says,“I will soon fill all the people who live in this land with stupor. I will also fill the kings from David’s dynasty, the priests, the prophets, and the citizens of Jerusalem with stupor.
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25 They grope about in darkness without light; he makes them stagger like drunkards.
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21 No priest may drink wine when he enters the inner court.
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15 He has given me my fill of bitter herbs and made me drunk with bitterness.
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33 Joy and gladness will disappear from the fruitful land of Moab. I will stop the flow of wine from the winepresses. No one will stomp on the grapes there and shout for joy. The shouts there will be shouts of soldiers, not the shouts of those making wine.
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18 The Shameful Sinners Will Be Brought to Shame They consume their alcohol, then engage in cult prostitution; they dearly love their shameful behavior.
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39 When their appetites are all stirred up, I will set out a banquet for them. I will make them drunk so that they will pass out, they will fall asleep forever, they will never wake up,” says the LORD.
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6 They drink wine from sacrificial bowls, and pour the very best oils on themselves. Yet they are not concerned over the ruin of Joseph.
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13 Their wealth will be stolen and their houses ruined! They will not live in the houses they have built, nor will they drink the wine from the vineyards they have planted.
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16 For just as you have drunk on my holy mountain, so all the nations will drink continually. They will drink, and they will gulp down; they will be as though they had never been.
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14 They do not pray to me, but howl in distress on their beds; They slash themselves for grain and new wine, but turn away from me.
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9 “Do not drink wine or strong drink, you and your sons with you, when you enter into the Meeting Tent, so that you do not die, which is a perpetual statute throughout your generations,
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18 “You say,‘He is foam on the face of the waters; their portion of the land is cursed so that no one goes to their vineyard.