Wine is a mocker, and beer is a brawler. Whoever is led astray by them is not wise.
Hosea 4:11 - Hebrew Names version (HNV) Prostitution, wine, and new wine take away understanding. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing 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, and beer is a brawler. Whoever is led astray by them is not wise.
It is not for kings, Lemo'el; it is not for kings to drink wine; nor for princes to say, 'Where is strong drink?'
He who commits adultery with a woman is void of understanding. He who does it destroys his own soul.
Surely extortion makes the wise man foolish; and a bribe destroys the understanding.
They also reel with wine, and stagger with strong drink. The Kohen 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.
The harp, lyre, tambourine, and flute, with wine, are at their feasts; but they don't regard the work of the LORD, neither have they considered the operation of his hands.
I have seen folly in the prophets of Shomron; they prophesied by Ba`al, and caused my people Yisra'el to err.
My people consult with their wooden idol, and answer to a stick of wood. Indeed the spirit of prostitution has led them astray, and they have been unfaithful to their God.
Their deeds won't allow them to turn to their God; for the spirit of prostitution is within them, and they don't know the LORD.
*Efrayim is like an easily deceived dove, without understanding. They call to Egypt. They go to Ashur.
*Drink no wine nor strong drink, you, nor your sons with you, when you go into the Tent of Meeting, that you don't die: it shall be a statute forever throughout your generations:
*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.
Avigayil came to Naval; and behold, he held a feast in his house, like the feast of a king; and Naval's heart was merry within him, for he was very drunken: therefore she told him nothing, less or more, until the morning light.