Isaiah 28:7

God's Word

Priests and prophets stagger from wine and wobble from too much liquor. They stagger from too much liquor and become confused from too much wine. They wobble because of their liquor. They stagger when they see visions. They swerve as they judge.

Cross References

Psalm 107:27

They reeled and staggered like drunks, and all their skills as sailors became useless.

Proverbs 20:1

Wine ⌞makes people⌟ mock, liquor ⌞makes them⌟ noisy, and everyone under their influence is unwise.

Proverbs 23:30

Those who drink glass after glass of wine and mix it with everything.

Ecclesiastes 10:17

A country is blessed when the king is from a noble family and when the high officials eat at the right time in order to get strength and not to get drunk.

Isaiah 19:14

The Lord mixes up their minds. So they lead the Egyptians astray like a drunk who staggers in his vomit.

Isaiah 22:13

Instead, you will rejoice, celebrate, slaughter cattle, and butcher sheep. You will eat meat, drink wine, and say, “Let’s eat and drink because tomorrow we’re going to die.”

Isaiah 24:2

The same will happen to people and priests, male slaves and masters, female slaves and masters, buyers and sellers, lenders and borrowers, debtors and creditors.

Isaiah 24:20

The earth will stumble like a drunk and sway like a shack in the wind. Its disobedience weighs heavy on it. It will fall and not get up again.

Isaiah 28:1

How horrible it will be for the arrogant drunks of Ephraim. Their glorious beauty is ⌞like⌟ a withered flower. They are at the entrance to a fertile valley where they lie drunk from wine.

Isaiah 29:11

To you all these visions will be like words in a book that is closed and sealed. You give this book to someone who can read, saying, “Please read this.” He answers, “I can’t read it. It’s sealed.”

Isaiah 3:12

“Children will oppress my people. Women will rule them. My people, your guides mislead you, and you don’t know which way to go.”

Isaiah 43:27

Your first ancestor sinned, and your priests rebelled against me.

Isaiah 5:11

How horrible it will be for those who get up early to look for a drink, who sit up late until they are drunk from wine.

Isaiah 5:22

How horrible it will be for those who are heroes at drinking wine, who are champions at mixing drinks,

Isaiah 5:23

who declare the guilty innocent for a bribe, who take away the rights of righteous people.

Jeremiah 14:14

Then the Lord told me, “These are the lies that the prophets are telling in my name: They claim that I sent them, commanded them, and spoke to them. They dreamed up the visions they tell you. Their predictions are worthless. They are the products of their own imagination.

Jeremiah 23:13

“⌞Say this⌟ about the prophets of Samaria: I saw something disgusting. The prophets of Samaria prophesied by Baal and led my people Israel astray.

Jeremiah 23:16

This is what the Lord of Armies says: Don’t listen to what the prophets are saying to you. They fill you with false hope. They speak about visions that they dreamed up. These visions are not from the Lord.

Lamentations 2:4

Like an enemy he bent his bow. Like an opponent his right hand held the arrow steady. He killed all the beautiful people. He poured out his fury like fire on the tent of Zion’s people.

Ezekiel 13:7

Prophets of Israel, haven’t you seen false visions and predicted things that don’t come true? Don’t you say, “The Lord said this,” even though I haven’t said anything?

Ezekiel 44:21

None of the priests may drink wine when they enter the inner courtyard.

Hosea 7:5

On the day of the king’s celebration, the officials become drunk from wine, and the king joins mockers.

Micah 2:11

Liars and frauds may go around and say, “We will preach to you about wine and liquor.” They would be just the type of preacher you want.

Habakkuk 2:15

“ ‘How horrible it will be for the one who makes his neighbor drink from the bowl of God’s rage, making him drunk in order to stare at his nakedness.’

Habakkuk 2:16

You are filled with disgrace rather than glory. Drink! Yes you! And expose yourself as godless. The cup in the Lord’s right hand will come around to you, and disgrace will cover your glory.

Matthew 24:29

“Immediately after the misery of those days, the sun will turn dark, the moon will not give light, the stars will fall from the sky, and the powers of the universe will be shaken.

Luke 21:34

“Make sure that you don’t become drunk, hung over, and worried about life. Then that day could suddenly catch you by surprise

Ephesians 5:28

So husbands must love their wives as they love their own bodies. A man who loves his wife loves himself.