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Isaiah 28:7,8

At a time of great danger, the nation needed wise leaders. But the leaders’ love of wine has made them completely foolish.

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See also Isaiah 28:7,8 in other biblical comments:

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    BUT THEY ALSO HAVE ERRED THROUGH WINE - In the previous verses the prophet had said that the kingdom of Judah should be saved, while that of Ephraim should be destroyed. Yet he does not deny that they...

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    3. THE SIX WOES OF THE PROPHET, JUDGMENT RUINS AND RESTORATION GLORIES TO COME (28-35) CHAPTER 28 The First Woe and the Message of Assurance 1. _Ephraim addressed (Isaiah 28:1)_ 2. _Jerusalem equall...

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    JERUSALEM ALSO IS THREATENED WITH DESTRUCTION. But Jerusalem like Ephraim reels with intoxication, the priests and prophets especially. The prophet is not steady in his vision, the priest when pronoun...

  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    THEY. Referring to Judah. STRONG DRINK. Hebrew. _shekar_. App-27. JUDGMENT. pronouncing judgment....

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    _the priest and the prophet_ Better: PRIEST AND PROPHET. These are specially mentioned as the spiritual leaders of the people, who opposed Isaiah in the name of Jehovah, and backed up the plans of the...

  • Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

    BUT THEY ALSO HAVE ERRED, &C.— _But they also stagger with wine, and reel with strong drink: the priest and the prophet stagger through strong drink; they are drowned in wine; they reel with strong dr...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    V. EMANCIPATION NOT FROM EGYPT Chapter S 28 - 35 A. FOUNDATION THAT IS FIRM, Chapter S 28-29 1. STUPIDITY TEXT: Isaiah 28:1-13 1 Woe to the crown of pride of the drunkards of Ephraim, and to the fa...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    In that day shall the LORD of hosts be for a crown of glory, and for a diadem of beauty, unto the residue of his people, -The prophet now turns to Judah, a gracious promise to the remnant ("residue...

  • Darby's translation notes (1890)

    28:7 overpowered (c-28) Lit. 'are swallowed up,' as ch. 3.12....

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    This chapter must be assigned (Isaiah 28:1) to a date prior to the capture of Samaria by the Assyrians (722 b.c.) and fall of the northern kingdom. 1-6. Samaria's luxury and self-indulgence pave the...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    THEY ALSO] the men of Judah. THEY ERR IN VISION, etc.] They are drunk when engaged in the sacred duties of their office; the tables they have just left prove it (Isaiah 28:8)....

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    BUT THEY ALSO HAVE ERRED THROUGH... — Better, _yet these also reel_ ... Isaiah acts on the method of Nathan when he said, _“_Thou art the man.” He has painted the drunkards of Ephraim; now he turns an...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    וְ גַם ־אֵ֨לֶּה֙ בַּ † יַּ֣יִן שָׁג֔וּ...

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    BOOK 3 PROPHECIES FROM THE ACCESSION OF HEZEKIAH TO THE DEATH OF SARGON 727-705 B.C. THE prophecies with which we have been engaged (Chapter s 2-10:4) fall either before or during the great Assyrian...

  • Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

    THE DECAY OF AN INTEMPERATE PEOPLE Isaiah 28:1-13 A new series of prophecies begins here and extends to Isaiah 32:20. Samaria is described as a faded crown or garland on the nation's head because it...

  • G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

    Here begins the third and last circle of the first division of the book. It consists of a series of prophecies concerning the chosen people and the world. In this chapter we have a graphic revelation...

  • Geneva Study Bible Commentary

    But (g) 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 overwhelmed with wine, they are out of the...

  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

    _These also. The kingdom of Juda. (Challoner) --- Ezechias could not correct every abuse; though what is here specified, regards rather the reigns of his successors._...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    Here is another solemn charge, and more pointed than the former. Errors are not only found in Ephraim, but in Judah; not only among the carnal, but the professor. Yea, God's ministers, both prophet an...

  • James Nisbet's Church Pulpit Commentary

    _WINE IS A MOCKER_ ‘They also have erred through wine.’ Isaiah 28:7 I sin against myself when I yield to the power of wine. You tell me that there is no reason why I should become a confirmed drunk...

  • John Calvin's Bible Commentary

    7._But they also have erred through wine. _He returns to the irreligious despisers of God, who were Jews in name only, and proves their ingratitude to be highly aggravated, because, though they had be...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    Chapter 28 sets before us the first elements of these final scenes in the history of this wonderful people. The scourge comes from the north. Ephraim is invaded as by an overflowing torrent, by a temp...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    BUT THEY ALSO HAVE ERRED THROUGH WINE,.... Either they that sat in judgment, and turned the battle to the gate, as Jarchi interprets it: or rather, since the Lord was a spirit of judgment and strength...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    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 t...

  • Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    _But they also have erred_ But, alas! Judah is guilty of the same sins with Israel, therefore they also must expect the same calamities, of which he speaks afterward. _The priest_ To whom strong drink...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    But they also have erred through wine, the rulers of Judah being addicted to tile same vice as those of Samaria, AND THROUGH STRONG DRINK ARE OUT OF THE WAY, reeling and staggering in their drunkennes...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    CONCERNING SAMARIA AND JERUSALEM. Chapter s 28 to 33 in the Book of Isaiah contain a cycle of prophecies and proclamations concerning the relation of Judah to Assyria in the time of King Hezekiah. Aha...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    5-15 The prophet next turns to Judah, whom he calls the residue of his people. Happy are those alone, who glory in the Lord of hosts himself. Hence his people get wisdom and strength for every servic...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    But, alas! Judah is guilty of the same sins with Israel, and therefore they also must expect the same calamities; of which he speaks afterward. They run into the same excess of wine and strong drink,...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Isaiah 28:7 they H428 erred H7686 (H8804) wine H3196 drink H7941 way H8582 (H8804) priest H3548 prophet...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    BACK TO THE PRESENT. THE CONDITION OF JUDAH (ISAIAH 28:7). Many view this movement back to the present as commencing a reference to Judah (see Isaiah 28:14), as against Israel in Isaiah 28:1, which wo...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    CONTENTS: Woe of Ephriam due to drunkenness. Prediction of Assyrian captivity of Ephriam. Ephriam's fate a warning to Judah. CHARACTERS: God. CONCLUSION: The glorious beauty and the plenty of the lan...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    Isaiah 28:1. _The crown of pride._ Sebaste, the ancient Samaria, is situated on a long mount of an oval figure, having first a fruitful valley, and then a circle of hills running round about it. _Maun...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _But they also have erred through wine_ “SWALLOWED UP OF WINE” This is how all debasement continues, aggravates itself, and brings itself to shameful issue. No man begins at the point of being swall...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    ISAIAH—NOTE ON ISAIAH 28:1 God’s Sovereign Word Spoken into the World: “Ah!” God controls history (chs. Isaiah 28:1), moving events toward final judgment and salvation (chs.

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    ISAIAH—NOTE ON ISAIAH 28:7 THESE ALSO. Judah in the south. THE PRIEST AND THE PROPHET. The leaders entrusted with God’s word....

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    SECTION VII. RENEWED DENUNCIATIONS OF ISRAEL AND JUDAH (CH. 28-31.) EXPOSITION ISAIAH 28:1 A WARNING TO SAMARIA. The prophet has now east his eagle glance

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    Chapter 28. Now the prophet turns to the local present issues. He is now... he's gone off down the road to the end of things. Now he comes back and he begins to speak of the Northern Kingdom, the majo...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    Ecclesiastes 10:17; Ephesians 5:28; Ezekiel 13:7; Ezekiel 44:21;...

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    But — Judah is guilty of the same sins with Israel, therefore they also must expect the same calamities; of which he speaks afterward. The prophet — The teachers, who should have been patterns of sobr...

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