Thematic Bible


Thematic Bible




Alas, for them who rise early in the morning that strong drink, they may pursue, - Who follow on in the evening cool until with wine, they are heated; And it cometh to pass - that lyre and harp, timbrel and flute and wine are in their banquets, - But, the doing of Yahweh, they do not discern, And the work of his hands, have they not seen.

Do not be among them who tipple with wine, - among them who are gluttons; For, the tippler and the glutton, shall come to poverty, and, rags, shall Slumber put on!

For, they that sleep, by night, do sleep, and, they that drink, by night, do drink: - Verse ConceptsNightSleep, PhysicalSecret SinsSpiritual NightDo Not Get DrunkDrunkennessPositive Thinkingdrunkards

A brier cometh into the hand of a drunken-man, a proverb into the mouth of dullards. Verse ConceptsProverbsWise Proverbsdrunkards

But as for these, With wine, do they reel, and With strong drink, do they stagger, - Priest and prophet, reel with strong drink They are swallowed up through wine They stagger through strong drink, They reel in prophetic vision, They totter in pronouncing judgment. Verse ConceptsAlcoholdrinking, abstention fromDrunkenness, Figurative OfDebaucheryLeaders, SpiritualStumblingDrunkenness, ResultsStaggeringStrong DrinkWicked ProphetsDrunkennessMaking DecisionsDecision Makingbeer

Do not look on wine when it becometh red, when it giveth in the cup its sparkle, glideth down smoothly. Its after effect, is that, like a serpent, it biteth, and, like a viper, it doth sting.

But as for these, With wine, do they reel, and With strong drink, do they stagger, - Priest and prophet, reel with strong drink They are swallowed up through wine They stagger through strong drink, They reel in prophetic vision, They totter in pronouncing judgment. Verse ConceptsAlcoholdrinking, abstention fromDrunkenness, Figurative OfDebaucheryLeaders, SpiritualStumblingDrunkenness, ResultsStaggeringStrong DrinkWicked ProphetsDrunkennessMaking DecisionsDecision Makingbeer

Unchastity, and wine, and new wine, take away the heart. Verse ConceptsAlcoholIntoxicationEffect Of WineBeing Without Understanding

But as for these, With wine, do they reel, and With strong drink, do they stagger, - Priest and prophet, reel with strong drink They are swallowed up through wine They stagger through strong drink, They reel in prophetic vision, They totter in pronouncing judgment. Verse ConceptsAlcoholdrinking, abstention fromDrunkenness, Figurative OfDebaucheryLeaders, SpiritualStumblingDrunkenness, ResultsStaggeringStrong DrinkWicked ProphetsDrunkennessMaking DecisionsDecision Makingbeer

But as for these, With wine, do they reel, and With strong drink, do they stagger, - Priest and prophet, reel with strong drink They are swallowed up through wine They stagger through strong drink, They reel in prophetic vision, They totter in pronouncing judgment. For, all tables, are full of filthy vomit, - There is no place! Whom, would he teach knowledge? And, whom, would he cause to understand the message? Them who are weaned from the milk? taken from the breasts? read more.
For it is - Precept upon precept, precept upon precept, Line upon line, line upon line, - A little here a little there. For, with a jabbering lip, and with an alien tongue, must he speak unto this people! To whom he said - This, is the rest - give ye rest to the weary, and This, is the quietness, - But they were unwilling to hear. So the word of Yahweh must be to them - Precept upon precept, precept upon precept, Line upon line, line upon line, A little here, a little there, - That they may go and fall backward and be torn and snared and captured. Wherefore, hear ye the word of Yahweh, Ye men who scoff, - Ye rulers of this people that is in Jerusalem. Because ye have said - We have solemnised a covenant with death, And with hades, have we effected a vision, - The overflowing scourge when it sweepeth by, shall not reach unto us, For we have made lying our refuge. And in falsehood, have we hid ourselves, Therefore, Thus, saith My Lord, Yahweh, Behold me! founding in Zion a stone, A stone of testing, The costly corner of a well-laid foundation, he that trusteth, shall not make haste! But I will make - Justice the line, and Righteousness the plummet, - And the hail shall, sweep away, your refuge of lying, And your hiding-place, the waters shall overflow; So shall be wiped out your covenant with death, And your vision with hades, not stand, - When the overflowing scourge, sweepeth past, then shall ye be thereby beaten down: As often as it sweepeth past, it shall take you away, For morning by morning, shall it pass along. By day and by night, - And it shall be nothing less than a terror to make out the message; For too short is the couch to stretch oneself out, - And, the coverlet, too narrow, when one draweth up his feet. For as in Mount Perazim, will Yahweh, arise, As in the vale of Gibeon, will he be stirred, - To do his work - foreign is his work, And to perform his task - strange is his task. Now, therefore do not show yourselves scoffers, Lest your fetters, be bound fast, - For, of a full end, and that a decreed one, have I heard from My Lord, Yahweh of hosts upon all the land Give ear, and hear ye my voice, - Hearken, and hear ye my speech: - All day long, doth the plowman plow for sowing? Doth he continue laying open and harrowing his soil? Doth he not when he hath levelled the face thereof, Cast abroad the fennel? And, the cummin, doth he not scatter? And plant wheat in rows, And barley in a lot, And spelt in the border thereof? Yea One hath trained him to good judgment, His God, directeth him. For not with a sledge, must, black coriander be threshed, Nor must, the wheel of a cart, on cummin, be turned, But with a staff, must fennel be eaten, And cummin with a rod: Bread-corn, must be crushed, - Yet would he not be evermore, threshing, it, So he hasteneth over it the wheel of his cart, with his horsemen, He crusheth it not! Even this, from Yahweh of hosts, cometh forth, - Who hath bestowed distinction upon counsel, And magnified sound wisdom.

But as for these, With wine, do they reel, and With strong drink, do they stagger, - Priest and prophet, reel with strong drink They are swallowed up through wine They stagger through strong drink, They reel in prophetic vision, They totter in pronouncing judgment. Verse ConceptsAlcoholdrinking, abstention fromDrunkenness, Figurative OfDebaucheryLeaders, SpiritualStumblingDrunkenness, ResultsStaggeringStrong DrinkWicked ProphetsDrunkennessMaking DecisionsDecision Makingbeer

But, ye, have departed out of the way, ye have caused multitudes to stumble at the deliverance, - ye have violated the covenant of Levi, saith Yahweh of hosts. Verse ConceptsCovenant, God's with Israel's priestsStumblingStumbling BlocksPeople Going AstrayCausing Others To StumbleMisteachingBreaking The CovenantCovenant Made At Sinai

But as for these, With wine, do they reel, and With strong drink, do they stagger, - Priest and prophet, reel with strong drink They are swallowed up through wine They stagger through strong drink, They reel in prophetic vision, They totter in pronouncing judgment. Verse ConceptsAlcoholdrinking, abstention fromDrunkenness, Figurative OfDebaucheryLeaders, SpiritualStumblingDrunkenness, ResultsStaggeringStrong DrinkWicked ProphetsDrunkennessMaking DecisionsDecision Makingbeer

But as for these, With wine, do they reel, and With strong drink, do they stagger, - Priest and prophet, reel with strong drink They are swallowed up through wine They stagger through strong drink, They reel in prophetic vision, They totter in pronouncing judgment. Verse ConceptsAlcoholdrinking, abstention fromDrunkenness, Figurative OfDebaucheryLeaders, SpiritualStumblingDrunkenness, ResultsStaggeringStrong DrinkWicked ProphetsDrunkennessMaking DecisionsDecision Makingbeer