Isaiah 28:7 BSB — MannaFest

Isaiah 28:7

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 in their judgments.

BSB

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ASV

And even these reel with wine, and stagger with strong drink; the priest and the prophet reel with strong drink, they are swallowed up of wine, they stagger with strong drink; they err in vision, they stumble in judgment.

KJV

But they also have erred through wine, and through strong drink are out of the way; the priest and the prophet have erred through strong drink, they are swallowed up of wine, they are out of the way through strong drink; they err in vision, they stumble in judgment.

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Commentary

1 voice

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

There are drunkards of Jerusalem, as well as drunkards of Ephraim; and therefore the mercy of God is to be so much the more admired that he has not blasted the glory of Judah as he has done that of Ephraim. Sparing mercy lays us under peculiar obligations when it is thus distinguishing. Ephraim's sins are found in Judah, and yet not Ephraim's ruins.

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Original language & word study

20 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
וְגַם־	ve.gam-	and also	H1571 →
אֵ֙לֶּה֙	'e.leh	these	H428 →
בַּיַּ֣יִן	bai.Ya.yin	with <the> wine	H3196 →
שָׁג֔וּ	sha.Gu	they reeled	H7686 →
וּבַשֵּׁכָ֖ר	u.va.she.Khar	and with <the> strong drink	H7941 →
תָּע֑וּ	ta.'U	they staggered	H8582 →
כֹּהֵ֣ן	ko.Hen	priest	H3548 →
וְנָבִיא֩	ve.na.Vi'	and prophet	H5030 →
שָׁג֨וּ	sha.Gu	they reeled	H7686 →
בַשֵּׁכָ֜ר	va.she.Khar	with <the> strong drink	H7941 →
נִבְלְע֣וּ	niv.le.'U	they were confused	H1104 →
מִן־	min-	from	H4480 →
הַיַּ֗יִן	hai.Ya.yin	<the> wine	H3196 →
תָּעוּ֙	ta.'U	they staggered	H8582 →
מִן־	min-	from	H4480 →
הַשֵּׁכָ֔ר	ha.she.Khar	<the> strong drink	H7941 →
שָׁגוּ֙	sha.Gu	they reeled	H7686 →
בָּֽרֹאֶ֔ה	ba.ro.'Eh	in the vision	H7203 →
פָּק֖וּ	pa.Ku	they tottered	H6328 →
פְּלִילִיָּֽה׃	pe.li.li.Yah	decision	H6417 →

Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.

The walk

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Where the connections lead

Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
Luke 21:34
But 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.
leads to
- Mark 4:19
  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.
- Luke 12:40
  You also must be ready, because the Son of Man will come at an hour you do not expect.”
- Luke 12:45–46
  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.
- 1 Thessalonians 5:2–8
  For you are fully aware that the Day of the Lord will come like a thief in the night.
- 1 Peter 4:3–7
  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.
Through
Micah 2:11
If a man of wind were to come and say falsely, “I will preach to you of wine and strong drink,” he would be just the preacher for this people!
leads to
- Jeremiah 5:31
  The prophets prophesy falsely, and the priests rule by their own authority. My people love it so, but what will you do in the end?
- 2 Corinthians 11:13–15
  For such men are false apostles, deceitful workers, masquerading as apostles of Christ.
- Isaiah 30:10–11
  They say to the seers, “Stop seeing visions!” and to the prophets, “Do not prophesy to us the truth! Speak to us pleasant words; prophesy illusions.