Isaiah 56:12

World English Bible (2000)

"Come," [say they], "I will get wine, and we will fill ourselves with strong drink; and tomorrow shall be as this day, [a day] great beyond measure."

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  • Ps 10:6 : 6 He says in his heart, "I shall not be shaken. For generations I shall have no trouble."
  • Isa 5:22 : 22 Woe to those who are mighty to drink wine, and champions at mixing strong drink;
  • Prov 23:35 : 35 "They hit me, and I was not hurt! They beat me, and I don't feel it! When will I wake up? I can do it again. I can find another."
  • Luke 12:19-20 : 19 I will tell my soul, "Soul, you have many goods laid up for many years. Take your ease, eat, drink, be merry."' 20 "But God said to him, 'You foolish one, tonight your soul is required of you. The things which you have prepared--whose will they be?'
  • 1 Cor 15:32 : 32 If I fought with animals at Ephesus for human purposes, what does it profit me? If the dead are not raised, then "let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we die."
  • Titus 1:7 : 7 For the overseer must be blameless, as God's steward; not self-pleasing, not easily angered, not given to wine, not violent, not greedy for dishonest gain;
  • Luke 12:45-46 : 45 But if that servant says in his heart, 'My lord delays his coming,' and begins to beat the menservants and the maidservants, and to eat and drink, and to be drunken, 46 then the lord of that servant will come in a day when he isn't expecting him, and in an hour that he doesn't know, and will cut him in two, and place his portion with the unfaithful.
  • Luke 21:34 : 34 "So be careful, or your hearts will be loaded down with carousing, drunkenness, and cares of this life, and that day will come on you suddenly.
  • Prov 27:1 : 1 Don't boast about tomorrow; for you don't know what a day may bring forth.
  • Prov 31:4-5 : 4 It is not for kings, Lemuel; it is not for kings to drink wine; nor for princes to say, 'Where is strong drink?' 5 lest they drink, and forget the law, and pervert the justice due to anyone who is afflicted.
  • Isa 5:11 : 11 Woe to those who rise up early in the morning, that they may follow strong drink; who stay late into the night, until wine inflames them!
  • Isa 22:13-14 : 13 and behold, joy and gladness, killing cattle and killing sheep, eating flesh and drinking wine: "Let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we will die." 14 Yahweh of Armies revealed himself in my ears, "Surely this iniquity will not be forgiven you until you die," says the Lord, Yahweh of Armies.
  • Isa 28:7-8 : 7 They also reel with wine, and stagger with strong drink. The priest and the prophet reel with strong drink. They are swallowed up by wine. They stagger with strong drink. They err in vision. They stumble in judgment. 8 For all tables are completely full of filthy vomit and filthiness.
  • Jer 18:18 : 18 Then they said, Come, and let us devise devices against Jeremiah; for the law shall not perish from the priest, nor counsel from the wise, nor the word from the prophet. Come, and let us strike him with the tongue, and let us not give heed to any of his words.
  • Hos 4:11 : 11 Prostitution, wine, and new wine take away understanding.
  • Amos 6:3-6 : 3 Those who put far away the evil day, and cause the seat of violence to come near; 4 Who lie on beds of ivory, and stretch themselves on their couches, and eat the lambs out of the flock, and the calves out of the midst of the stall; 5 who strum on the strings of a harp; who invent for themselves instruments of music, like David; 6 who drink wine in bowls, and anoint themselves with the best oils; but they are not grieved for the affliction of Joseph.
  • Matt 24:49-51 : 49 and begins to beat his fellow servants, and eat and drink with the drunkards, 50 the lord of that servant will come in a day when he doesn't expect it, and in an hour when he doesn't know it, 51 and will cut him in pieces, and appoint his portion with the hypocrites. There is where the weeping and grinding of teeth will be.

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  • 13 and behold, joy and gladness, killing cattle and killing sheep, eating flesh and drinking wine: "Let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we will die."

  • Isa 5:11-12
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    11 Woe to those who rise up early in the morning, that they may follow strong drink; who stay late into the night, until wine inflames them!

    12 The harp, lyre, tambourine, and flute, with wine, are at their feasts; but they don't respect the work of Yahweh, neither have they considered the operation of his hands.

  • Hab 2:5-6
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    5 Yes, moreover, wine is treacherous. A haughty man who doesn't stay at home, who enlarges his desire as Sheol, and he is like death, and can't be satisfied, but gathers to himself all nations, and heaps to himself all peoples.

    6 Won't all these take up a parable against him, and a taunting proverb against him, and say, 'Woe to him who increases that which is not his, and who enriches himself by extortion! How long?'

  • 11 Yes, the dogs are greedy, they can never have enough; and these are shepherds who can't understand: they have all turned to their own way, each one to his gain, from every quarter.

  • 22 Woe to those who are mighty to drink wine, and champions at mixing strong drink;

  • 5 Wake up, you drunkards, and weep! Wail, all you drinkers of wine, because of the sweet wine; for it is cut off from your mouth.

  • 15 "Woe to him who gives his neighbor drink, pouring your inflaming wine until they are drunk, so that you may gaze at their naked bodies!

  • Jer 13:12-13
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    12 Therefore you shall speak to them this word: Thus says Yahweh, the God of Israel, Every bottle shall be filled with wine: and they shall tell you, Do we not certainly know that every bottle shall be filled with wine?

    13 Then you shall tell them, Thus says Yahweh, Behold, I will fill all the inhabitants of this land, even the kings who sit on David's throne, and the priests, and the prophets, and all the inhabitants of Jerusalem, with drunkenness.

  • Prov 31:6-7
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    6 Give strong drink to him who is ready to perish; and wine to the bitter in soul:

    7 Let him drink, and forget his poverty, and remember his misery no more.

  • 9 Pause and wonder! Blind yourselves and be blind! They are drunken, but not with wine; they stagger, but not with strong drink.

  • 16 For as you have drunk on my holy mountain, so will all the nations drink continually. Yes, they will drink, swallow down, and will be as though they had not been.

  • 9 They will not drink wine with a song. Strong drink will be bitter to those who drink it.

  • 19 I will tell my soul, "Soul, you have many goods laid up for many years. Take your ease, eat, drink, be merry."'

  • 39 When they are heated, I will make their feast, and I will make them drunken, that they may rejoice, and sleep a perpetual sleep, and not wake, says Yahweh.

  • 1 Wine is a mocker, and beer is a brawler. Whoever is led astray by them is not wise.

  • 13 Come now, you who say, "Today or tomorrow let's go into this city, and spend a year there, trade, and make a profit."

  • Amos 6:3-4
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    3 Those who put far away the evil day, and cause the seat of violence to come near;

    4 Who lie on beds of ivory, and stretch themselves on their couches, and eat the lambs out of the flock, and the calves out of the midst of the stall;

  • 1 "Come, everyone who thirsts, to the waters! Come, he who has no money, buy, and eat! Yes, come, buy wine and milk without money and without price.

  • 11 There is a crying in the streets because of the wine. All joy is darkened. The mirth of the land is gone.

  • 12 They shall come and sing in the height of Zion, and shall flow to the goodness of Yahweh, to the grain, and to the new wine, and to the oil, and to the young of the flock and of the herd: and their soul shall be as a watered garden; and they shall not sorrow any more at all.

  • 7 They also reel with wine, and stagger with strong drink. The priest and the prophet reel with strong drink. They are swallowed up by wine. They stagger with strong drink. They err in vision. They stumble in judgment.

  • 18 Come, let's take our fill of loving until the morning. Let's solace ourselves with loving.

  • 11 If a man walking in a spirit of falsehood lies: "I will prophesy to you of wine and of strong drink;" he would be the prophet of this people.

  • 30 Those who stay long at the wine; those who go to seek out mixed wine.

  • Amos 6:6-7
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    6 who drink wine in bowls, and anoint themselves with the best oils; but they are not grieved for the affliction of Joseph.

    7 Therefore they will now go captive with the first who go captive; and the feasting and lounging will end.

  • 11 They make oil within the walls of these men. They tread wine presses, and suffer thirst.

  • 10 For entangled like thorns, and drunken as with their drink, they are consumed utterly like dry stubble.

  • 5 On the day of our king, the princes made themselves sick with the heat of wine. He joined his hand with mockers.

  • 10 so your barns will be filled with plenty, and your vats will overflow with new wine.

  • 17 For they eat the bread of wickedness, and drink the wine of violence.

  • 1 Listen to this word, you cows of Bashan, who are on the mountain of Samaria, who oppress the poor, who crush the needy, who tell their husbands, "Bring us drinks!"

  • 9 All you animals of the field, come to devour, [yes], all you animals in the forest.

  • 5 "Come, eat some of my bread, Drink some of the wine which I have mixed!

  • 21 for the drunkard and the glutton shall become poor; and drowsiness clothes them in rags.

  • 13 Their wealth will become a spoil, and their houses a desolation. Yes, they will build houses, but won't inhabit them. They will plant vineyards, but won't drink their wine.

  • 11 Prostitution, wine, and new wine take away understanding.

  • 5 You have lived delicately on the earth, and taken your pleasure. You have nourished your hearts as in a day of slaughter.

  • 17 He who loves pleasure shall be a poor man. He who loves wine and oil shall not be rich.

  • 6 In this mountain, Yahweh of Armies will make all peoples a feast of fat things, a feast of choice wines, of fat things full of marrow, of well refined choice wines.

  • 14 They haven't cried to me with their heart, but they howl on their beds. They assemble themselves for grain and new wine. They turn away from me.

  • 13 We'll find all valuable wealth. We'll fill our houses with spoil.

  • 7 The new wine mourns. The vine languishes. All the merry-hearted sigh.

  • 1 Woe to the crown of pride of the drunkards of Ephraim, and to the fading flower of his glorious beauty, which is on the head of the fertile valley of those who are overcome with wine!

  • 5 What will you do in the day of solemn assembly, and in the day of the feast of Yahweh?