11Whoredom and wine and new wine take away the heart.
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Wine is a mocker, strong drink is raging: and whosoever is deceived thereby is not wise.
And take heed to yourselves, lest at any time your hearts be overcharged with surfeiting, and drunkenness, and cares of this life, and so that day come upon you unawares.
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 through strong drink; they err in vision, they stumble in judgment.
For a whore is a deep ditch; and a strange woman is a narrow pit. …
And that, knowing the time, that now it is high time to awake out of sleep: for now is our salvation nearer than when we believed. …
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 6-11)God is here proceeding in his controversy both with the priests and with the people. The people were as those that strove with the priests (Hos. 4:4) when they had priests that did their duty; but the generality of them lived in the neglect of their duty, and here is a word for those priests, and for the people that love to have it so, Jer. 5:31. And it is observable here how the punishment answer…
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