Wine is a mocker, strong drink a brawler, and whoever is led astray by it is not wise.
Hosea 4:11 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021 prostitution. Wine and new wine take away the understanding. More versionsKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 Whoredom and wine and new wine take away the heart. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition Harlotry and wine and new wine take away the heart and the mind and the spiritual understanding. American Standard Version (1901) Whoredom and wine and new wine take away the understanding. Common English Bible false religious practices. Wine and new wine destroy understanding. Catholic Public Domain Version Fornication, and wine, and drunkenness, have taken away their heart. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version Fornication, and wine, and drunkenness take away the understanding. |
Wine is a mocker, strong drink a brawler, and whoever is led astray by it is not wise.
It is not for kings, O Lemuel, it is not for kings to drink wine or for rulers to desire strong drink,
But he who commits adultery has no sense; he who does it destroys himself.
Surely oppression makes the wise foolish, and a bribe corrupts the heart.
These also reel with wine and stagger with strong drink; the priest and the prophet reel with strong drink; they are confused with wine; they stagger with strong drink; they err in vision; they stumble in giving judgment.
whose feasts consist of lyre and harp, tambourine and flute and wine, but who do not regard the deeds of the Lord or see the work of his hands!
In the prophets of Samaria I saw a disgusting thing: they prophesied by Baal and led my people Israel astray.
My people consult a piece of wood, and their divining rod gives them oracles. For a spirit of prostitution has led them astray, and they have prostituted themselves, forsaking their God.
Their deeds do not permit them to return to their God. For the spirit of prostitution is within them, and they do not know the Lord.
Ephraim has become like a dove, silly and without sense; they call upon Egypt, they go to Assyria.
“Drink no wine or strong drink, neither you nor your sons, when you enter the tent of meeting, that you may not die; it is a statute forever throughout your generations.
“Be on guard so that your hearts are not weighed down with dissipation and drunkenness and the worries of this life and that day does not catch you unexpectedly,
Abigail came to Nabal; he was holding a feast in his house like the feast of a king. Nabal’s heart was merry within him, for he was very drunk, so she told him nothing at all until the morning light.