Isaiah 5:22

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Beware, those who are champions at drinking, who display great courage when mixing strong drinks.

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  • Isa 5:11 : 11 Beware, those who get up early to drink beer, those who keep drinking long after dark until they are intoxicated with wine.
  • Isa 28:7 : 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.
  • Hab 2:15 : 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.
  • Isa 56:12 : 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!’
  • Isa 28:1-3 : 1 The 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. 2 Look, the Lord sends a strong, powerful one. With the force of a hailstorm or a destructive windstorm, with the might of a driving, torrential rainstorm, he will knock that crown to the ground with his hand. 3 The splendid crown of Ephraim’s drunkards will be trampled underfoot.
  • Prov 23:19-20 : 19 Listen, my child, and be wise, and guide your heart on the right way. 20 Do not spend time among drunkards, among those who eat too much meat,

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  • Isa 5:11-12
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    11Beware, those who get up early to drink beer, those who keep drinking long after dark until they are intoxicated with wine.

    12They 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 5:20-21
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    20Beware, 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.

    21Beware, those who think they are wise, those who think they possess understanding.

  • 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.

  • 1Wine is a mocker and strong drink is a brawler; whoever goes astray by them is not wise.

  • 9They no longer sing and drink wine; the beer tastes bitter to those who drink it.

  • 5Wake up, you drunkards, and weep! Wail, all you wine drinkers, because the sweet wine has been taken away from you.

  • Prov 31:4-7
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    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;

    7let them drink and forget their poverty, and remember their misery no more.

  • 7Even 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.

  • 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.

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    29Who has woe? Who has sorrow? Who has contentions? Who has complaints? Who has wounds without cause? Who has dullness of the eyes?

    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.

  • 17Indeed they have eaten bread gained from wickedness and drink wine obtained from violence.

  • 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!’

  • 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.

  • 21So listen to this, oppressed one, who is drunk, but not from wine!

  • 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.

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    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.

  • 23They pronounce the guilty innocent for a payoff, they ignore the just cause of the innocent.

  • 11Therefore, because you make the poor pay taxes on their crops and exact a grain tax from them, you will not live in the houses you built with chiseled stone, nor will you drink the wine from the fine vineyards you planted.

  • 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!

  • 22Your silver has become scum, your beer is diluted with water.

  • 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.”

  • 11Judgment of Pagan Idolatry and Cultic Prostitution Old and new wine take away the understanding of my people.

  • 18Beware, those who pull evil along using cords of emptiness are as good as dead, who pull sin as with cart ropes.

  • 1Beware, those who enact unjust policies, those who are always instituting unfair regulations,

  • 11They press out the olive oil between the rows of olive trees; they tread the winepresses while they are thirsty.

  • 4As they drank wine, they praised the gods of gold and silver, bronze, iron, wood, and stone.

  • 7For those who sleep, sleep at night and those who get drunk are drunk at night.

  • 1The Party is over for the Rich Woe to those who live in ease in Zion, to those who feel secure on Mount Samaria. They think of themselves as the elite class of the best nation. The family of Israel looks to them for leadership.

  • 25They grope about in darkness without light; he makes them stagger like drunkards.

  • Jer 25:15-16
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    15Judah and the Nations Will Experience God’s Wrath So the LORD, the God of Israel, spoke to me in a vision.“Take this cup from my hand. It is filled with the wine of my wrath. Take it and make the nations to whom I send you drink it.

    16When they have drunk it, they will stagger to and fro and act insane. For I will send wars sweeping through them.”

  • 13But look, there is outright celebration! You say,“Kill the ox and slaughter the sheep, eat meat and drink wine. Eat and drink, for tomorrow we die!”

  • 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!

  • 27They swayed and staggered like a drunk, and all their skill proved ineffective.

  • 5At the celebration of their king, his princes become inflamed with wine; they conspire with evildoers.

  • 23(Stop drinking just water, but use a little wine for your digestion and your frequent illnesses.)

  • 12Woe to the one who builds a city by bloodshed– he who starts a town by unjust deeds.

  • 6They drink wine from sacrificial bowls, and pour the very best oils on themselves. Yet they are not concerned over the ruin of Joseph.

  • 10Surely they will be totally consumed like entangled thorn bushes, like the drink of drunkards, like very dry stubble.

  • 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.

  • 28If 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!