Wine is a mocker, strong drink a brawler; and whoever is led astray by it is not wise.
Hosea 4:11 - Revised Standard Version Wine and new wine take away the 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, 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;
He who commits adultery has no sense; he who does it destroys himself.
Surely oppression makes the wise man foolish, and a bribe corrupts the mind.
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.
They have lyre and harp, timbrel and flute and wine at their feasts; but they do not regard the deeds of the Lord, or see the work of his hands.
In the prophets of Samaria I saw an unsavory thing: they prophesied by Baal and led my people Israel astray.
My people inquire of a thing of wood, and their staff gives them oracles. For a spirit of harlotry has led them astray, and they have left their God to play the harlot.
Their deeds do not permit them to return to their God. For the spirit of harlotry is within them, and they know not the Lord.
Ephraim is like a dove, silly and without sense, calling to Egypt, going to Assyria.
“Drink no wine nor strong drink, you nor your sons with you, when you go into the tent of meeting, lest you die; it shall be a statute for ever throughout your generations.
“But take heed to yourselves lest your hearts be weighed down with dissipation and drunkenness and cares of this life, and that day come upon you suddenly like a snare;
And Abigail came to Nabal; and lo, he was holding a feast in his house, like the feast of a king. And Nabal's heart was merry within him, for he was very drunk; so she told him nothing at all until the morning light.