Isaiah 24:7
in Isaiah 24The new wine dries up, the vine withers. All the merrymakers now groan.
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ASV
The new wine mourneth, the vine languisheth, all the merry-hearted do sigh.
KJV
The new wine mourneth, the vine languisheth, all the merryhearted do sigh.
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This verse in Isaiah 24
Commentary
8 notes on this verseA commentator
Albert Barnes1798–1870
Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869)
The new wine languisheth - The new wine (תירושׁ tı̂yrôsh), denotes properly must, or wine that was newly expressed from the grape, and that was not fermented, usually translated ‘new wine,’ or ‘sweet wine.’ The expression here is poetic. The wine languishes or mourns because there are none to drink it; it is represented as grieved because it does not perform its usual office of exhilarating the heart, and the figure is thus an image of the desolation of the land. The vine languisheth - It is sickly and unfruitful, because there are none to cultivate it as formerly.
This site's exposition
The earth mourneth and fadeth away
on Isaiah 24:4-9
The mourning spreads from land to vine to wine to harp, every ordinary joy fading in step with the earth itself, because they have transgressed the laws, changed the ordinance, broken the everlasting covenant. The covenant named here is read two ways by the bench: Henry and Gill take it as the covenant of nature made with Noah and every living creature in Genesis 9, broken by mankind at large rather than by Israel under Sinai, while Delitzsch reads it as the moral law written into the constitution of humanity itself. Either reading explains why the judgment falls on the earth and not on one nation, a universal covenant answered by a universal curse, the inhabitants burned and few men left. Even the small pleasures die last, the new wine mourns and the harp falls silent, and strong drink turns bitter to the very men who once sang over it.
The record, by era
The Church Fathers1 voice
(Verse 7 and following) The grape harvest has failed, the vine is weakened, all those who rejoiced in their hearts have sighed. The joy of the tambourines has ceased, the sound of the rejoicers has quieted, the sweetness of the lyre has been silenced, as those who do not drink wine with singing, bitter will be the drink for those who drink it. The city of vanity is worn away, every house is closed with no one entering.
The Medieval Church1 voice
570. The vintage has mourned. Here he threatens the removal of joys as to the wicked; and second, he sets out the joys of the good: as if a few olives (Isa 24:13). Concerning the first, he does three things. First, he sets out the …
The Puritans and the Awakening3 voices
Mourneth - Because there are none to drink it. Grief is ascribed to senseless creatures by a figure usual in all authors. Languisheth - Because there are no people left to dress it, or gather its grapes.
The new wine mourneth,.... For want men to drink it, or because spilled by the enemy; or the inhabitants of the land mourn for want of it, not having their vintages as usual: the vine languisheth; or is sickly, and so barren and unfruitful, does not bring forth its clusters of grapes as it used to do; there being none to prune it, and take care of it, and being trodden down by hostile forces.
Let your laughter be turned into mourning. When the earth is emptied the noise of those that rejoice in it ends. Carnal joy is a noisy thing; but the noise of it will soon be at an end, and the end of it is heaviness.
1 more voice on this verse
The Nineteenth Century1 voice
A commentator
Jamieson, Fausset & Brown1802–1910
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)
proposed
mourneth--because there are none to drink it [BARNES]. Rather, "is become vapid" [HORSLEY]. languisheth--because there are none to cultivate it now.
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The words behind it
8 Hebrew wordsEvery Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.
| Hebrew | Sound | Meaning | Word study | In the Bible |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| אָבַ֥ל | ʾaval | it has dried up | H56 → | 39 times |
| תִּיר֖וֹשׁ | tiroosh | new wine | H8492 → | 38 times |
| אֻמְלְלָה־ | ʾumlelah- | it has languished | H535 → | 16 times |
| גָ֑פֶן | gafen | [the] vine | H1612 → | 55 times |
| נֶאֶנְח֖וּ | neenchu | they have groaned | H584 → | |
| כָּל־ | kol- | all | H3605 → | 5413 times |
| שִׂמְחֵי־ | simchei- | [the people] joyful of | H8056 → | |
| לֵֽב׃ | lev | heart | H3820 → | 595 times |
אָבַ֥לit has dried up
ʾavalH56 →39 times
תִּיר֖וֹשׁnew wine
tirooshH8492 →38 times
אֻמְלְלָה־it has languished
ʾumlelah-H535 →16 times
גָ֑פֶן[the] vine
gafenH1612 →55 times
נֶאֶנְח֖וּthey have groaned
neenchuH584 →
כָּל־all
kol-H3605 →5413 times
שִׂמְחֵי־[the people] joyful of
simchei-H8056 →
לֵֽב׃heart
levH3820 →595 times
A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.
The walk
8 stopsEach card is a verse this one points to, and under it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it.
Through
Isaiah 16:10Joy and gladness are removed from the orchard; no one sings or shouts in the vineyards. No one tramples the grapes in the winepresses; I have put an end to the cheering.
it leads to
- Jeremiah 48:33
Joy and gladness are removed from the orchard and from the fields of Moab. I have stopped the flow of wine from the presses; no one treads them with shouts of joy; their shouts…
- Amos 5:17
There will be wailing in all the vineyards, for I will pass through your midst,” says the LORD.
- Judges 9:27
And after they had gone out into the fields, gathered grapes from their vineyards, and trodden them, they held a festival and went into the house of their god; and as they ate and…
- Amos 5:11
Therefore, because you trample on the poor and exact from him a tax of grain, you will never live in the stone houses you have built; you will never drink the wine from the…
- Habakkuk 3:17–18
Though the fig tree does not bud and no fruit is on the vines, though the olive crop fails and the fields produce no food, though the sheep are cut off from the fold…
- Jeremiah 48:33
Through
Isaiah 16:8For the fields of Heshbon have withered, along with the grapevines of Sibmah. The rulers of the nations have trampled its choicest vines, which had reached as far as Jazer and spread toward the…
it leads to
- Numbers 32:38
as well as Nebo and Baal-meon (whose names were changed), and Sibmah. And they renamed the cities they rebuilt.
- Isaiah 15:4
Heshbon and Elealeh cry out; their voices are heard as far as Jahaz. Therefore the soldiers of Moab cry out; their souls tremble within.
- Joshua 13:19
Kiriathaim, Sibmah, Zereth-shahar on the hill in the valley,
- Numbers 32:38
About Isaiah
This page draws on Albert Barnes, Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869); Franz Delitzsch, Biblical Commentary on the Prophecies of Isaiah; Jamieson, Fausset & Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible; Jerome, Commentary on Isaiah; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763); John Wesley, Explanatory Notes upon the Old Testament; Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible and Thomas Aquinas, Commentary on Isaiah.