Isaiah 5:22
New International Version
Woe to those who are heroes at drinking wine and champions at mixing drinks,

New Living Translation
What sorrow for those who are heroes at drinking wine and boast about all the alcohol they can hold.

English Standard Version
Woe to those who are heroes at drinking wine, and valiant men in mixing strong drink,

Berean Standard Bible
Woe to those who are heroes in drinking wine and champions in mixing strong drink,

King James Bible
Woe unto them that are mighty to drink wine, and men of strength to mingle strong drink:

New King James Version
Woe to men mighty at drinking wine, Woe to men valiant for mixing intoxicating drink,

New American Standard Bible
Woe to those who are heroes in drinking wine, And valiant men in mixing intoxicating drink,

NASB 1995
Woe to those who are heroes in drinking wine And valiant men in mixing strong drink,

NASB 1977
Woe to those who are heroes in drinking wine, And valiant men in mixing strong drink;

Legacy Standard Bible
Woe to those who are mighty men in drinking wine And valiant men in mixing strong drink,

Amplified Bible
Woe (judgment is coming) to those who are heroes at drinking wine And men of strength in mixing intoxicating drinks,

Christian Standard Bible
Woe to those who are heroes at drinking wine, who are champions at pouring beer,

Holman Christian Standard Bible
Woe to those who are heroes at drinking wine, who are fearless at mixing beer,

American Standard Version
Woe unto them that are mighty to drink wine, and men of strength to mingle strong drink;

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
Woe to them who are mighty to drink wine and to the men mighty to mix liquor!

Brenton Septuagint Translation
Woe to the strong ones of you that drink wine, and the mighty ones that mingle strong drink:

Contemporary English Version
And you are great at drinking and mixing drinks. But you are in for trouble.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Woe to you that are mighty to drink wine, and stout men at drunkenness.

English Revised Version
Woe unto them that are mighty to drink wine, and men of strength to mingle strong drink:

GOD'S WORD® Translation
How horrible it will be for those who are heroes at drinking wine, who are champions at mixing drinks,

Good News Translation
You are doomed! Heroes of the wine bottle! Brave and fearless when it comes to mixing drinks!

International Standard Version
"How terrible it will be for those who are heroes at drinking wine, and champions in mixing strong drink,

JPS Tanakh 1917
Woe unto them that are mighty to drink wine, And men of strength to mingle strong drink;

Literal Standard Version
Woe [to] the mighty to drink wine, | And men of strength to mingle strong drink.

Majority Standard Bible
Woe to those who are heroes in drinking wine and champions in mixing strong drink,

New American Bible
Ah! Those who are champions at drinking wine, masters at mixing drink!

NET Bible
Those who are champions at drinking wine are as good as dead, who display great courage when mixing strong drinks.

New Revised Standard Version
Ah, you who are heroes in drinking wine and valiant at mixing drink,

New Heart English Bible
Woe to those who are mighty to drink wine, and champions at mixing strong drink;

Webster's Bible Translation
Woe to them that are mighty to drink wine, and men of strength to mingle strong drink:

World English Bible
Woe to those who are mighty to drink wine, and champions at mixing strong drink;

Young's Literal Translation
Woe to the mighty to drink wine, And men of strength to mingle strong drink.

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Context
Woes to the Wicked
21Woe to those who are wise in their own eyes and clever in their own sight. 22Woe to those who are heroes in drinking wine and champions in mixing strong drink, 23who acquit the guilty for a bribe and deprive the innocent of justice.…

Cross References
Exodus 23:8
Do not accept a bribe, for a bribe blinds those who see and twists the words of the righteous.

Proverbs 20:1
Wine is a mocker, strong drink is a brawler, and whoever is led astray by them is not wise.

Proverbs 23:20
Do not join those who drink too much wine or gorge themselves on meat.

Proverbs 23:29
Who has woe? Who has sorrow? Who has contentions? Who has complaints? Who has needless wounds? Who has bloodshot eyes?

Proverbs 31:4
It is not for kings, O Lemuel, it is not for kings to drink wine, or for rulers to crave strong drink,

Isaiah 5:11
Woe to those who rise early in the morning in pursuit of strong drink, who linger into the evening, to be inflamed by wine.

Isaiah 22:13
But look, there is joy and gladness, butchering of cattle and slaughtering of sheep, eating of meat and drinking of wine: "Let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we die!"


Treasury of Scripture

Woe to them that are mighty to drink wine, and men of strength to mingle strong drink:

mighty

Isaiah 5:11
Woe unto them that rise up early in the morning, that they may follow strong drink; that continue until night, till wine inflame them!

Isaiah 28:1-3,7
Woe to the crown of pride, to the drunkards of Ephraim, whose glorious beauty is a fading flower, which are on the head of the fat valleys of them that are overcome with wine! …

Proverbs 23:19,20
Hear thou, my son, and be wise, and guide thine heart in the way…

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Isaiah 5
1. Under the parable of a vineyard, God excuses his severe judgment
8. His judgments upon covetousness
11. Upon lasciviousness
13. Upon impiety
20. And upon injustice
26. The executioners of God's judgments














(22) Woe unto them that are mighty to drink. . . . strong drink.--The words in part reproduce the "woe" of Isaiah 5:11-12, but with the distinctive feature that there the revellers were simply of the careless self-indulgent type, while here they are identified with the unjust and corrupt rulers. They were heroes and valiant men only in and for their cups. To such men it seemed a light matter to acquit the guilty and condemn the guiltless. The prophet dwells on the familiar truth, Judex damnatur cum nocens absolvitur. The Targum, it may be noticed, has "the mammon of falsehood" (comp. Luke xvi, 9), for the "reward" of the Hebrew.

Verse 22. - Woe unto them that are mighty to drink wine. The sixth woe seems at first sight a repetition of the second. But there is this difference, that the drinkers in the present verse do not succumb to their liquor, or remain at the banquet all day, but proceed to the business of their lives, attend courts and judge causes, but with brain obfuscated and moral vision bedimmed, so that they are easily induced to pervert justice on receipt of a bribe. The sixth woe may be considered to be pronounced rather upon their corruption than upon their drinking, and so to be really quite distinct from the second (comp. Proverbs 31:4, 5).

Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
Woe
ה֕וֹי (hō·w)
Interjection
Strong's 1945: Ah! alas! ha!

to those who are heroes
גִּבּוֹרִ֖ים (gib·bō·w·rîm)
Adjective - masculine plural
Strong's 1368: Powerful, warrior, tyrant

in drinking
לִשְׁתּ֣וֹת (liš·tō·wṯ)
Preposition-l | Verb - Qal - Infinitive construct
Strong's 8354: To imbibe

wine,
יָ֑יִן (yā·yin)
Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 3196: Wine, intoxication

and champions
וְאַנְשֵׁי־ (wə·’an·šê-)
Conjunctive waw | Noun - masculine plural construct
Strong's 582: Man, mankind

in mixing
לִמְסֹ֥ךְ (lim·sōḵ)
Preposition-l | Verb - Qal - Infinitive construct
Strong's 4537: To mix, produce by mixing

strong drink,
שֵׁכָֽר׃ (šê·ḵār)
Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 7941: An intoxicant, intensely alcoholic liquor


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