Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
Isaiah 5:22
Verse Isaiah 5:22. Mighty to drink wine] "They show not," says Kimchi, "their strength in combating their enemies, but in drunkenness and debauchery."
Verse Isaiah 5:22. Mighty to drink wine] "They show not," says Kimchi, "their strength in combating their enemies, but in drunkenness and debauchery."
WO UNTO THEM THAT ARE MIGHTY ... - This is the sixth specification of crime. He had already denounced the intemperate in Isaiah 5:11. But probably this was a prevailing sin. Perhaps there was no evide...
CHAPTER 5 The Song of the Vineyard and the Six Woes 1. _The song of the vineyard and Jehovah's lament (Isaiah 5:1)_ 2. _The judgment upon the vineyard (Isaiah 5:5)_ 3. _The wild grapes (Isaiah 5:8)_...
A SERIES OF DENUNCIATIONS ON VARIOUS OFFENDERS. This section contains a collection of Woes, originally independent and even now not woven into a single symmetrical address. Whether they come from diff...
MIGHTY. strong men. Hebrew. _gibbor._ App-14....
WOE UNTO THEM THAT ARE MIGHTY TO DRINK WINE— This troop of vices is closed by drunkenness, joined with injustice and iniquity in judgment. This crime is distinct from that luxury and intemperance in f...
THE WOES OF APPLICATION TEXT: Isaiah 5:8-23 8 Woe unto them that join house to house, that lay field to field, till there be no room, and ye be made to dwell alone in the midst of the land ! 9 In...
Woe unto them that are mighty to drink wine, and men of strength to mingle strong drink: WOE UNTO (THEM THAT ARE) MIGHTY TO DRINK WINE ... WHICH JUSTIFY THE WICKED FOR REWARD. Sixth woe against cor...
1-24. Judah, God's unfruitful vineyard, and the judgment upon it....
ISAIAH: GOD CONTROLS THE NATIONS ISAIAH DECLARES HOW GOD’S PEOPLE SHOULD BE LIVING ISAIAH CHAPTER S 1 TO 9 _NORMAN HILLYER_ CHAPTER 5 Chapter 5 begins with a parable (a story with a double mean...
WOE UNTO THEM THAT ARE MIGHTY TO DRINK.... STRONG DRINK. — The words in part reproduce the “woe” of Isaiah 5:11, but with the distinctive feature that there the revellers were simply of the careless s...
הֹ֕וי גִּבֹּורִ֖ים לִ שְׁתֹּ֣ות יָ֑יִן וְ אַנ
CHAPTER III THE VINEYARD OF THE LORD, OR TRUE PATRIOTISM THE CONSCIENCE OF OUR COUNTRY'S SINS 735 B.C. Isaiah 5:1; Isaiah 9:8 - Isaiah 10:4 THE prophecy contained in these Chapter s belongs, as we...
WARNING AGAINST PRIDE, INTEMPERANCE, AND CORRUPTION Isaiah 5:18-30 The wild grapes of Judah are here continued: blind atheism, Isaiah 5:18-20; proud self-conceit, Isaiah 5:21; drunkenness, Isaiah 5:...
With the thought of judgment, and the necessity for it still in mind, the prophet utters his great denunciation. This falls into three parts. The first is a song of accusation. By the simple and famil...
Woe to [them that are] (c) mighty to drink wine, and men of strength to mix strong drink: (c) Who are never weary, but show their strength, and brag in gluttony and drunkenness....
_Drink. Hebrew, "mix shecar." People generally mixed wine and water. They also strove who could drink most, and the Greeks had a feast for this purpose, (Calmet) which they styled Choas, for the measu...
Here are accounts of still increasing wickedness, and woes of still increasing misery. Reader, in the present Christ despising generation, doth not the prophet's representation suit, as though written...
22._Wo to them that are mighty to drink wine! _Isaiah now censures another vice, namely, drunkenness and excess in eating, of which he had spoken before; so that probably this chapter is collected fro...
After this the Spirit of God begins to plead with the people, taking two distinct grounds-namely, that which God had done for His people, and the coming of Jehovah in the Person of Christ in glory. Ha...
WOE UNTO [THEM THAT ARE] MIGHTY TO DRINK WINE,.... That can bear a great deal, and not be overcome and intoxicated with it; that try their strength this way with others, and get the mastery and glory...
Woe unto [them that are] mighty to drink wine, and men of strength to mingle strong drink: Ver. 22. _Woe unto them that are mighty to drink wine._] _Iterate taxat hoc vitium, eo quod invaluerat._ The...
Woe unto them that are mighty to drink wine, and men of strength to mingle strong drink, champions of dissolute living, selling justice in order to obtain the means to indulge in the service of mammon...
A SIXFOLD WOE UPON THE JEWISH TRANSGRESSORS...
8-23 Here is a woe to those who set their hearts on the wealth of the world. Not that it is sinful for those who have a house and a field to purchase another; but the fault is, that they never know w...
THAT ARE MIGHTY TO DRINK WINE; that can drink much without intoxication, in which they gloried, as too many do at this day. TO MINGLE, i.e. to drink; the antecedent being put for the consequent, which...
Isaiah 5:22 Woe H1945 mighty H1368 drinking H8354 (H8800) wine H3196 men H582 valiant H2428 mixing H4537 ...
THE FIFTH WOE (ISAIAH 5:22). Isaiah 5:22 ‘Woe to those who are wise in their own eyes, and prudent in their own sight.' This sentence is short but it is vibrant with significance. This is the final...
THE SIXTH WOE (ISAIAH 5:22). Isaiah 5:22 ‘Woe to those who are mighty (men) to drink wine, And strong men (men of strength) to mingle strong drink. Who justify the wicked for a reward, And take a...
THE SIX WOES OF GOD (ISAIAH 5:8). A series of woes are now declared on the people of Israel because of their various sins. The vineyard had produced smelly grapes, now woe must come on it. They are a...
CONTENTS: Parable of Jehovah's vineyard and the six woes upon Israel. CHARACTERS: God. CONCLUSION: God expects vineyard fruit from those who enjoy vineyard privileges, not the mere leaves of profess...
Isaiah 5:1. _My well-beloved;_ the Messiah, who certainly was Lord of the Vineyard, and the men of Judah were his pleasant plants. Psalms 80:14; Ezekiel 17:6; Ho
_Woe unto them that are mighty to drink wine. .. which justify the wicked for reward_ WINE-LOVING LAWYERS AND JUDGES Among the men whom Isaiah denounces as the corrupters and destroyers of the societ...
ISAIAH—NOTE ON ISAIAH 5:1 Isaiah’s introductory diagnosis of Judah’s spiritual decline (chs. Isaiah 1:1) concludes with a description of his generation’s apostasy and its consequences. The chapter is...
ISAIAH—NOTE ON ISAIAH 5:18 Isaiah issues four laments (WOE) over God’s people. ⇐ ⇔
THE WOE OF THE DRUNKARD Isaiah 5:22. _Woe unto them that are mighty to drink wine, and men of strength to mingle strong drink_. There are certain vices which the customs of certain countries seem to...
WILD GRAPES Isaiah 5:8. _Woe unto them that join house to house, &c._ It is important to remember that this whole chapter constitutes one prophecy. Much of the power of its teaching will be lost, if...
EXPOSITION ISAIAH 5:1 ISRAEL REBUKED BY THE PARABLE OF A VINEYARD. This chapter stands in a certain sense alone, neither closely connected with what precedes nor with what follows, excepting that it...
Now in the fifth chapter the Lord takes up the parable of a vineyard in which He likens Judah or Israel, His people, unto a vineyard. Now will I sing to my well-beloved a song of my beloved touching...
Habakkuk 2:15; Isaiah 28:1; Isaiah 28:7; Isaiah 5:11; Proverbs 23:19;
To mingle — To drink: the antecedent being put for the consequent: for they mingled it in order to drinking....