9They shall not drink wine with a song; strong drink shall be bitter to them that drink it.
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Woe unto them that are mighty to drink wine, and men of strength to mingle strong drink:
Go thy way, eat thy bread with joy, and drink thy wine with a merry heart; for God now accepteth thy works.
And the songs of the temple shall be howlings in that day, saith the Lord GOD: there shall be many dead bodies in every place; they shall cast them forth with silence.
Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light, and light for darkness; that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter!
And be not drunk with wine, wherein is excess; but be filled with the Spirit; …
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-12)It is a very dark and melancholy scene that this prophecy presents to our view; turn our eyes which way we will, every thing looks dismal. The threatened desolations are here described in a great variety of expressions to the same purport, and all aggravating. I. The earth is stripped of all its ornaments and looks as if it were taken off its basis; it is made empty and waste (Isa. 24:1), as if it…
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