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Isaiah 5:11 KJV
Isaiah · chapter 5 · verse 11
Woe unto them that rise up early in the morning, that they may follow strong drink; that continue until night, till wine inflame them!Isaiah 5:11 · King James Version
Isaiah 5:11 in context
9In mine ears said the LORD of hosts, Of a truth many houses shall be desolate, even great and fair, without inhabitant.
10Yea, ten acres of vineyard shall yield one bath, and the seed of an homer shall yield an ephah.
11Woe unto them that rise up early in the morning, that they may follow strong drink; that continue until night, till wine inflame them!
12And the harp, and the viol, the tabret, and pipe, and wine, are in their feasts: but they regard not the work of the LORD, neither consider the operation of his hands.
13Therefore my people are gone into captivity, because they have no knowledge: and their honourable men are famished, and their multitude dried up with thirst.
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Key words (Strong's)
- continueʼâcharto loiterH309 →
- morningbôqerproperly, dawnH1242 →
- followrâdaphto run after (usually with hostile intentH7291 →
- earlyshâkamliterally, to load upH7925 →
- drinkshêkâran intoxicantH7941 →
- nightneshephproperly, a breezeH5399 →
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The world and the flesh are the two great enemies that we are in danger of being overpowered by; yet we are in no danger if we do not ourselves yield to them. Eagerness of the world, and indulgence of the flesh, are the two sins against which the prophet, in God's name, here denounces woes.
— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on verses 8-17