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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9God’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.
10For the LORD has poured out on you a strong urge to sleep deeply. He has shut your eyes(the prophets), and covered your heads(the seers).
27They swayed and staggered like a drunk, and all their skill proved ineffective.
22Beware, those who are champions at drinking, who display great courage when mixing strong drinks.
1Wine is a mocker and strong drink is a brawler; whoever goes astray by them is not wise.
11If a lying windbag should come and say,‘I’ll promise you blessings of wine and beer,’ he would be just the right preacher for these people!
8Indeed, all the tables are covered with vomit, with filth, leaving no clean place.
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?’
13Then 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.
4It is not for kings, O Lemuel, it is not for kings to drink wine, or for rulers to crave strong drink,
5lest they drink and forget what is decreed, and remove from all the poor their legal rights.
6Give strong drink to the one who is perishing, and wine to those who are bitterly distressed;
11Beware, those who get up early to drink beer, those who keep drinking long after dark until they are intoxicated with wine.
25They grope about in darkness without light; he makes them stagger like drunkards.
5Wake up, you drunkards, and weep! Wail, all you wine drinkers, because the sweet wine has been taken away from you.
9They no longer sing and drink wine; the beer tastes bitter to those who drink it.
1The Lord Will Judge Samaria The splendid crown of Ephraim’s drunkards is doomed, the withering flower, its beautiful splendor, situated at the head of a rich valley, the crown of those overcome with wine.
30Those who linger over wine, those who go looking for mixed wine.
31Do not look on the wine when it is red, when it sparkles in the cup, when it goes down smoothly.
11Judgment of Pagan Idolatry and Cultic Prostitution Old and new wine take away the understanding of my people.
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.
17Indeed they have eaten bread gained from wickedness and drink wine obtained from violence.
5Indeed, wine will betray the proud, restless man! His appetite is as big as Sheol’s; like death, he is never satisfied. He gathers all the nations; he seizes all peoples.
14The LORD has made them undiscerning; they lead Egypt astray in all she does, so that she is like a drunk sliding around in his own vomit.
8They stretch out on clothing seized as collateral; they do so right beside every altar! They drink wine bought with the fines they have levied; they do so right in the temple of their God!
3The splendid crown of Ephraim’s drunkards will be trampled underfoot.
12“But you made the Nazirites drink wine; you commanded the prophets,‘Do not prophesy!’
21So listen to this, oppressed one, who is drunk, but not from wine!
16The leaders of this nation were misleading people, and the people being led were destroyed.
5At the celebration of their king, his princes become inflamed with wine; they conspire with evildoers.
12Each 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!’
10Surely they will be totally consumed like entangled thorn bushes, like the drink of drunkards, like very dry stubble.
6He will give discernment to the one who makes judicial decisions, and strength to those who defend the city from attackers.
20Do not spend time among drunkards, among those who eat too much meat,
21because drunkards and gluttons become impoverished, and drowsiness clothes them with rags.
16When they have drunk it, they will stagger to and fro and act insane. For I will send wars sweeping through them.”
21No priest may drink wine when he enters the inner court.
18The Shameful Sinners Will Be Brought to Shame They consume their alcohol, then engage in cult prostitution; they dearly love their shameful behavior.
27Then the LORD said to me,“Tell them that the LORD of Heaven’s Armies, the God of Israel says,‘Drink this cup until you get drunk and vomit. Drink until you fall down and can’t get up. For I will send wars sweeping through you.’
13The LORD says,“I saw the prophets of Samaria doing something that was disgusting. They prophesied in the name of the god Baal and led my people Israel astray.
22Your silver has become scum, your beer is diluted with water.
2Threshing floors and wine vats will not feed the people, and new wine only deceives them.
7For those who sleep, sleep at night and those who get drunk are drunk at night.
7Babylonia had been a gold cup in the LORD’s hand. She had made the whole world drunk. The nations had drunk from the wine of her wrath. So they have all gone mad.
9Oracles Against the False Prophets Here is what the LORD says concerning the false prophets: My heart and my mind are deeply disturbed. I tremble all over. I am like a drunk person, like a person who has had too much wine, because of the way the LORD and his holy word are being mistreated.
8For 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.”
3For all the nations have fallen from the wine of her immoral passion, and the kings of the earth have committed sexual immorality with her, and the merchants of the earth have gotten rich from the power of her sensual behavior.”
20They must declare to the elders of his city,“Our son is stubborn and rebellious and pays no attention to what we say– he is a glutton and drunkard.”
7The new wine dries up, the vines shrivel up, all those who like to celebrate groan.