Hosea 4:11
Promiscuity, wine, and new wine take away understanding.
BSB
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ASV
Whoredom and wine and new wine take away the understanding.
KJV
Whoredom and wine and new wine take away the heart.
Hosea 4:11
Promiscuity, wine, and new wine take away understanding.
BSB
ASV
Whoredom and wine and new wine take away the understanding.
KJV
Whoredom and wine and new wine take away the heart.
Whoredom and wine and new wine take away the heart - (Literally, “takes away”). Wine and fleshly sin are pictured as blended in one, to deprive man of his affections and reason and understanding, and to leave him brutish and irrational. In all the relations of life toward God and man, reason and will are guided by the affections. And so, in God’s language, the “heart” stands for the “understanding” as well as the “affections,” because it directs the understanding, and the understanding, bereft of true affections, and under the rule of passion, becomes senseless.
A moral truth applicable to all times. The special reference here is to the licentious orgies connected with the Syrian worship, which lured Israel away from the pure worship of God (Isa 28:1, 7; Am 4:1). take away the heart--that is, the understanding; make men blind to their own true good (Ec 7:7).
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Luke 21:34But watch yourselves, or your hearts will be weighed down by dissipation, drunkenness, and the worries of life—and that day will spring upon you suddenly like a snare.
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but the worries of this life, the deceitfulness of wealth, and the desire for other things come in and choke the word, and it becomes unfruitful.
You also must be ready, because the Son of Man will come at an hour you do not expect.”
For you are fully aware that the Day of the Lord will come like a thief in the night.
But suppose that servant says in his heart, ‘My master will be a long time in coming,’ and he begins to beat the menservants and maidservants, and to eat and drink and get drunk.
For you have spent enough time in the past carrying out the same desires as the Gentiles: living in debauchery, lust, drunkenness, orgies, carousing, and detestable idolatry.
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Proverbs 20:1Wine is a mocker, strong drink is a brawler, and whoever is led astray by them is not wise.
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Do not get drunk on wine, which leads to reckless indiscretion. Instead, be filled with the Spirit.
These also stagger from wine and stumble from strong drink: Priests and prophets reel from strong drink and are befuddled by wine. They stumble because of strong drink, muddled in their visions and stumbling…
It is not for kings, O Lemuel, it is not for kings to drink wine, or for rulers to crave strong drink,