Isaiah 28:7

Contemporary English Version (Anglicised) 2012

Priests and prophets stumble because they are drunk. Their minds are too confused to receive God's messages or give honest decisions.

Cross References

Psalm 107:27

You staggered like drunkards and gave up all hope.

Proverbs 20:1

It isn't clever to get drunk! Drinking makes a fool of you and leads to fights.

Proverbs 23:30

Everyone who stays up late, having just one more drink.

Ecclesiastes 10:17

But a nation will prosper when its ruler is mature, and its leaders don't feast too much.

Isaiah 19:14

The LORD has confused Egypt; its leaders have made it stagger and vomit like a drunkard.

Isaiah 22:13

But instead, you celebrated by feasting on beef and lamb and by drinking wine, because you said, “Let's eat and drink! Tomorrow we may die.”

Isaiah 24:2

including ordinary people and priests, slaves and slave owners, buyers and sellers, lenders and borrowers, the rich and the poor.

Isaiah 24:20

It staggers and shakes like a drunkard or a hut in a storm. It is burdened down with sin; the earth will fall, never again to get up.

Isaiah 28:1

The city of Samaria above a fertile valley is in for trouble! Its leaders are drunkards, who stuff themselves with food and wine. But they will be like flowers that dry up and wilt.

Isaiah 29:11

Now his message is like a sealed letter to you. Some of you say, “We can't read it, because it's sealed.”

Isaiah 3:12

Though you are God's people, you are ruled and abused by women and children. You are confused by leaders who guide you down the wrong path.

Isaiah 43:27

Your earliest ancestor and all your leaders rebelled against me.

Isaiah 5:11

You are in for trouble! You get up early to start drinking, and you keep it up late into the night.

Isaiah 5:22

And you are great at drinking and mixing drinks. But you are in for trouble.

Isaiah 5:23

You accept bribes to let the guilty go free, and you cheat the innocent out of a fair trial.

Jeremiah 14:14

The LORD answered: They claim to speak for me, but they're lying! I didn't even speak to them, much less choose them to be my prophets. Their messages come from worthless dreams, useless fortune-telling, and their own imaginations.

Jeremiah 23:13

The prophets in Samaria were disgusting to me, because they preached in the name of Baal and led my people astray.

Jeremiah 23:16

Don't listen to the lies of these false prophets, you people of Judah! The message they preach is something they imagined; it did not come from me, the LORD All-Powerful.

Lamentations 2:4

He attacked like an enemy with a bow and arrows, killing our loved ones. He has burnt to the ground the homes on Mount Zion.

Ezekiel 13:7

They say they're preaching my messages, but they are full of lies—I did not speak to them!

Ezekiel 44:21

They must not drink wine before going to the inner courtyard.

Hosea 7:5

On the day their king was crowned, his officials got him drunk, and he joined in their foolishness.

Micah 2:11

The only prophet you want is a liar who will say, “Drink and get drunk!”

Habakkuk 2:15

You're doomed! You get your friends drunk, just to see them naked.

Habakkuk 2:16

Now you will be disgraced instead of praised. The LORD will make you drunk, and when others see you naked, you will lose their respect.

Matthew 24:29

Straight after those days of suffering, “The sun will become dark, and the moon will no longer shine. The stars will fall, and the powers in the sky will be shaken.”

Luke 21:34

Don't spend all your time thinking about eating or drinking or worrying about life. If you do, the final day will suddenly catch you

Ephesians 5:28

In the same way, a husband should love his wife as much as he loves himself. A husband who loves his wife shows that he loves himself.