Isaiah 24:9 “They no longer sing and drink wine; strong drink is bitter to those wh…”

Isaiah 24:9

They no longer sing and drink wine; strong drink is bitter to those who consume it.

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

They shall not drink wine with a song; strong drink shall be bitter to them that drink it.

World English Bible

They will not drink wine with a song. Strong drink will be bitter to those who drink it.

American Standard Version

They shall not drink wine with a song; strong drink shall be bitter to them that drink it.

Geneva Bible 1599

They shall not drinke wine with mirth: strong drinke shall be bitter to them that drinke it.

Darby Translation

They do not drink wine with a song; strong drink is bitter to them that drink it.

Young's Literal Translation

With a song they drink not wine, Bitter is strong drink to those drinking it.

Bible in Basic English

There is no more drinking of wine with a song; strong drink will be bitter to those who take it.

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Cross references

“They shall not drink wine with a song; strong drink shall be bitter to them that drink it.”

Ecclesiastes 9:7 Psalm 69:12 Amos 6:5–7 Amos 8:3 Amos 8:10 Zechariah 9:15

Ecclesiastes 9:7 · BSB

Go, eat your bread with joy, and drink your wine with a cheerful heart, for God has already approved your works:

Psalm 69:12 · BSB

Those who sit at the gate mock me, and I am the song of drunkards.

Amos 6:5–7 · BSB

You improvise songs on the harp like David and invent your own musical instruments.

Amos 8:3 · BSB

“In that day,” declares the Lord GOD, “the songs of the temple will turn to wailing. Many will be the corpses, strewn in silence everywhere!”

Amos 8:10 · BSB

I will turn your feasts into mourning and all your songs into lamentation. I will cause everyone to wear sackcloth and every head to be shaved. I will make it like a time of mourning for an only son, and its outcome like…

Zechariah 9:15 · BSB

The LORD of Hosts will shield them. They will destroy and conquer with slingstones; they will drink and roar as with wine. And they will be filled like sprinkling bowls, drenched like the corners of the altar.

Also

Isaiah 5:22 Isaiah 5:20

Isaiah 5:22 · BSB

Woe to those who are heroes in drinking wine and champions in mixing strong drink,

Isaiah 5:20 · BSB

Woe to those who call evil good and good evil, who turn darkness to light and light to darkness, who replace bitter with sweet and sweet with bitter.

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

8The joyful tambourines have ceased; the noise of revelers has stopped; the joyful harp is silent.

10The city of chaos is shattered; every house is closed to entry.

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