5Yea also, because he transgresseth by wine, he is a proud man, neither keepeth at home, who enlargeth his desire as hell, and is as death, and cannot be satisfied, but gathereth unto him all nations, and heapeth unto him all people:
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Hell and destruction are never full; so the eyes of man are never satisfied.
Woe unto them that rise up early in the morning, that they may follow strong drink; that continue until night, till wine inflame them! …
Wine is a mocker, strong drink is raging: and whosoever is deceived thereby is not wise.
It is not for kings, O Lemuel, it is not for kings to drink wine; nor for princes strong drink: …
Who hath woe? who hath sorrow? who hath contentions? who hath babbling? who hath wounds without cause? who hath redness of eyes? …
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 5-14)The prophet having had orders to write the vision , and the people to wait for the accomplishment of it, the vision itself follows; and it is, as divers other prophecies we have met with, the burden of Babylon and Babylon’s king, the same that was said to pass over and offend , Hab. 1:11. It reads the doom, some think, of Nebuchadnezzar, who was principally active in the destruction of Jerusalem,…
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