Habakkuk 2:5

Webster's Bible (1833)

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.

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  • Prov 27:20 : 20 Sheol and Abaddon are never satisfied; And a man's eyes are never satisfied.
  • Prov 20:1 : 1 Wine is a mocker, and beer is a brawler; Whoever is led astray by them is not wise.
  • Prov 23:29-33 : 29 Who has woe? Who has sorrow? Who has strife? Who has complaints? Who has needless bruises? Who has bloodshot eyes? 30 Those who stay long at the wine; Those who go to seek out mixed wine. 31 Don't look at the wine when it is red, When it sparkles in the cup, When it goes down smoothly: 32 In the end, it bites like a snake, And poisons like a viper. 33 Your eyes will see strange things, And your mind will imagine confusing things.
  • 2 Kgs 14:10 : 10 You have indeed struck Edom, and your heart has lifted you up: glory of it, and abide at home; for why should you meddle to [your] hurt, that you should fall, even you, and Judah with you?
  • Ps 138:6 : 6 For though Yahweh is high, yet he looks after the lowly; But the proud, he knows from afar.
  • 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.
  • Eccl 5:10 : 10 He who loves silver shall not be satisfied with silver; nor he who loves abundance, with increase: this also is vanity.
  • Isa 5:11-12 : 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 regard the work of Yahweh, Neither have they considered the operation of his hands.
  • Isa 5:22-23 : 22 Woe to those who are mighty to drink wine, And champions at mixing strong drink; 23 Who acquit the guilty for a bribe, But deny justice for the innocent!
  • Isa 10:7-9 : 7 However he doesn't mean so, neither does his heart think so; but it is in his heart to destroy, and to cut off not a few nations. 8 For he says, Aren't my princes all of them kings? 9 Isn't Calno as Carchemish? Isn't Hamath as Arpad? Isn't Samaria as Damascus? 10 As my hand has found the kingdoms of the idols, whose engraved images did excel them of Jerusalem and of Samaria; 11 shall I not, as I have done to Samaria and her idols, so do to Jerusalem and her idols? 12 Therefore it shall happen that, when the Lord has performed his whole work on Mount Zion and on Jerusalem, I will punish the fruit of the stout heart of the king of Assyria, and the glory of his high looks. 13 For he has said, By the strength of my hand I have done it, and by my wisdom; for I have understanding: and I have removed the bounds of the peoples, and have robbed their treasures, and like a valiant man I have brought down those who sit [on thrones]:
  • Isa 14:16-17 : 16 Those who see you shall gaze at you, they shall consider you, [saying], "Is this the man who made the earth to tremble, who shook kingdoms; 17 who made the world as a wilderness, and overthrew the cities of it; who didn't let loose his prisoners to their home?"
  • Isa 16:6 : 6 We have heard of the pride of Moab, [that] he is very proud; even of his arrogance, and his pride, and his wrath; his boastings are nothing.
  • Isa 21:5 : 5 They prepare the table, they set the watch, they eat, they drink: rise up, you princes, anoint the shield.
  • Jer 25:9 : 9 behold, I will send and take all the families of the north, says Yahweh, and [I will send] to Nebuchadrezzar the king of Babylon, my servant, and will bring them against this land, and against the inhabitants of it, and against all these nations round about; and I will utterly destroy them, and make them an astonishment, and a hissing, and perpetual desolations.
  • Jer 25:17-29 : 17 Then took I the cup at Yahweh's hand, and made all the nations to drink, to whom Yahweh had sent me: 18 [to wit], Jerusalem, and the cities of Judah, and the kings of it, and the princes of it, to make them a desolation, an astonishment, a hissing, and a curse, as it is this day; 19 Pharaoh king of Egypt, and his servants, and his princes, and all his people; 20 and all the mixed people, and all the kings of the land of the Uz, and all the kings of the Philistines, and Ashkelon, and Gaza, and Ekron, and the remnant of Ashdod; 21 Edom, and Moab, and the children of Ammon; 22 and all the kings of Tyre, and all the kings of Sidon, and the kings of the isle which is beyond the sea; 23 Dedan, and Tema, and Buz, and all who have the corners [of their hair] cut off; 24 and all the kings of Arabia, and all the kings of the mixed people who dwell in the wilderness; 25 and all the kings of Zimri, and all the kings of Elam, and all the kings of the Medes; 26 and all the kings of the north, far and near, one with another; and all the kingdoms of the world, which are on the surface of the earth: and the king of Sheshach shall drink after them. 27 You shall tell them, Thus says Yahweh of Hosts, the God of Israel: Drink you, and be drunken, and spew, and fall, and rise no more, because of the sword which I will send among you. 28 It shall be, if they refuse to take the cup at your hand to drink, then shall you tell them, Thus says Yahweh of Hosts: You shall surely drink. 29 For, behold, I begin to work evil at the city which is called by my name; and should you be utterly unpunished? You shall not be unpunished; for I will call for a sword on all the inhabitants of the earth, says Yahweh of Hosts.
  • Jer 50:29 : 29 Call together the archers against Babylon, all those who bend the bow; encamp against her round about; let none of it escape: recompense her according to her work; according to all that she has done, do to her; for she has been proud against Yahweh, against the Holy One of Israel.
  • Jer 51:39 : 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.
  • Dan 5:1-4 : 1 Belshazzar the king made a great feast to a thousand of his lords, and drank wine before the thousand. 2 Belshazzar, while he tasted the wine, commanded to bring the golden and silver vessels which Nebuchadnezzar his father had taken out of the temple which was in Jerusalem; that the king and his lords, his wives and his concubines, might drink from it. 3 Then they brought the golden vessels that were taken out of the temple of the house of God which was at Jerusalem; and the king and his lords, his wives and his concubines, drank from them. 4 They drank wine, and praised the gods of gold, and of silver, of brass, of iron, of wood, and of stone.
  • Dan 5:20-23 : 20 But when his heart was lifted up, and his spirit was hardened so that he dealt proudly, he was deposed from his kingly throne, and they took his glory from him: 21 and he was driven from the sons of men, and his heart was made like the animals', and his dwelling was with the wild donkeys; he was fed with grass like oxen, and his body was wet with the dew of the sky; until he knew that the Most High God rules in the kingdom of men, and that he sets up over it whoever he will. 22 You his son, Belshazzar, have not humbled your heart, though you knew all this, 23 but have lifted up yourself against the Lord of heaven; and they have brought the vessels of his house before you, and you and your lords, your wives and your concubines, have drunk wine from them; and you have praised the gods of silver and gold, of brass, iron, wood, and stone, which don't see, nor hear, nor know; and the God in whose hand your breath is, and whose are all your ways, you have not glorified.
  • Nah 1:9-9 : 9 What do you plot against Yahweh? He will make a full end. Affliction won't rise up the second time. 10 For entangled like thorns, and drunken as with their drink, they are consumed utterly like dry stubble.
  • Hab 2:4 : 4 Behold, his soul is puffed up. It is not upright in him, but the righteous will live by his faith.
  • Hab 2:8-9 : 8 Because you have plundered many nations, all the remnant of the peoples will plunder you, because of men's blood, and for the violence done to the land, to the city and to all who dwell in it. 9 Woe to him who gets an evil gain for his house, that he may set his nest on high, that he may be delivered from the hand of evil! 10 You have devised shame to your house, by cutting off many peoples, and have sinned against your soul.
  • 1 Thess 4:11 : 11 and that you make it your ambition to lead a quiet life, and to do your own business, and to work with your own hands, even as we charged you;
  • Jas 4:6 : 6 But he gives more grace. Therefore it says, "God resists the proud, but gives grace to the humble."
  • Isa 2:11-12 : 11 The lofty looks of man will be brought low, The haughtiness of men will be bowed down, And Yahweh alone will be exalted in that day. 12 For there will be a day of Yahweh of Hosts for all that is proud and haughty, And for all that is lifted up; And it shall be brought low:
  • Isa 2:17 : 17 The loftiness of man shall be bowed down, And the haughtiness of men shall be brought low; And Yahweh alone shall be exalted in that day.
  • Isa 5:8 : 8 Woe to those who join house to house, Who lay field to field, until there is no room, And you are made to dwell alone in the midst of the land!
  • Prov 30:13-16 : 13 There is a generation, oh how lofty are their eyes! Their eyelids are lifted up. 14 There is a generation whose teeth are like swords, And their jaws like knives, To devour the poor from the earth, and the needy from among men. 15 "The leach has two daughters: 'Give, give.' "There are three things that are never satisfied; Four that don't say, 'Enough:' 16 Sheol, The barren womb; The earth that is not satisfied with water; And the fire that doesn't say, 'Enough.'

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    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!

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

  • 12 Come you, [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.

  • 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!

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

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

  • 14 Therefore Sheol{Sheol is the place of the dead.} has enlarged its desire, And opened its mouth without measure; And their glory, their multitude, their pomp, and he who rejoices among them, descend into it.

  • 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.

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

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    20 Don't be among ones drinking too much wine, Or those who gorge themselves on meat:

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    5 Lest they drink, and forget the law, And pervert the justice due to anyone who is afflicted.

    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.

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

  • 9 Woe to him who gets an evil gain for his house, that he may set his nest on high, that he may be delivered from the hand of evil!

  • 4 Behold, his soul is puffed up. It is not upright in him, but the righteous will live by his faith.

  • 7 Even these reel with wine, and stagger with strong drink; the priest and the prophet reel with strong drink, they are swallowed up of wine, they stagger with strong drink; they err in vision, they stumble in judgment.

  • 16 How much less one who is abominable and corrupt, A man who drinks iniquity like water!

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

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

  • 28 He has lived in desolate cities, In houses which no one inhabited, Which were ready to become heaps.

  • 20 and they shall tell the elders of his city, This our son is stubborn and rebellious, he will not obey our voice; he is a glutton, and a drunkard.

  • 11 Forasmuch therefore as you trample on the poor, And take taxes from him of wheat: You have built houses of hewn stone, But you will not dwell in them. You have planted pleasant vineyards, But you shall not drink their wine.

  • 8 For in the hand of Yahweh there is a cup, Full of foaming wine mixed with spices. He pours it out. Indeed the wicked of the earth drink and drink it to its very dregs.

  • 39 No man having drunk old wine immediately desires new, for he says, 'The old is better.'"

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

  • 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 fat valley of those who are overcome with wine!

  • 25 They grope in the dark without light. He makes them stagger like a drunken man.

  • 7 "Behold, this is the man who didn't make God his strength, But trusted in the abundance of his riches, And strengthened himself in his wickedness."

  • 19 He who loves disobedience loves strife. One who builds a high gate seeks destruction.

  • 3 For all the nations have drunk of the wine of the wrath of her sexual immorality, the kings of the earth committed sexual immorality with her, and the merchants of the earth grew rich from the abundance of her luxury."

  • 3 The crown of pride of the drunkards of Ephraim shall be trodden under foot:

  • 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.

  • 20 Sheol and Abaddon are never satisfied; And a man's eyes are never satisfied.

  • 3 I searched in my heart how to cheer my flesh with wine, my heart yet guiding me with wisdom, and how to lay hold of folly, until I might see what it was good for the sons of men that they should do under heaven all the days of their lives.

  • 2 a man to whom God gives riches, wealth, and honor, so that he lacks nothing for his soul of all that he desires, yet God gives him no power to eat of it, but an alien eats it. This is vanity, and it is an evil disease.

  • 7 Babylon has been a golden cup in Yahweh's hand, who made all the earth drunken: the nations have drunk of her wine; therefore the nations are mad.

  • 9 They shall not drink wine with a song; strong drink shall be bitter to those who drink it.

  • 9 Stay you and wonder; take your pleasure and be blind: they are drunken, but not with wine; they stagger, but not with strong drink.

  • 26 Make you him drunken; for he magnified himself against Yahweh: and Moab shall wallow in his vomit, and he also shall be in derision.

  • 7 For as he thinks about the cost, so he is. "Eat and drink!" he says to you, But his heart is not with you.

  • 37 No one puts new wine into old wineskins, or else the new wine will burst the skins, and it will be spilled, and the skins will be destroyed.

  • 18 "They are foam on the surface of the waters. Their portion is cursed in the earth: They don't turn into the way of the vineyards.

  • 19 and it happen, when he hears the words of this curse, that he bless himself in his heart, saying, I shall have peace, though I walk in the stubbornness of my heart, to destroy the moist with the dry.

  • 15 For thus says Yahweh, the God of Israel, to me: take this cup of the wine of wrath at my hand, and cause all the nations, to whom I send you, to drink it.