Isaiah 24:9
Good News Translation
There is no more happy singing over wine; no one enjoys its taste any more.

New Revised Standard Version
No longer do they drink wine with singing; strong drink is bitter to those who drink it.

Contemporary English Version
They no longer sing as they drink their wine, and it tastes sour.

New American Bible
They no longer drink wine and sing; strong brew is bitter to those who drink it.

Douay-Rheims Bible
They shall not drink wine with a song: the drink shall be bitter to them that drink it.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

They shall not drink wine with a song: the drink shall be bitter to them that drink it.

Isaiah 5:11,12 Woe to you that rise up early in the morning to follow drunkenness, and to drink in the evening, to be inflamed with wine. . . .

Psalm 69:12 They that sat in the gate spoke against me: and they that drank wine made me their song.

Ecclesiastes 9:7 Go then, and eat thy bread with joy, and drink thy wine with gladness: because thy works please God.

Amos 6:5-7 You that sing to the sound of the psaltery: they have thought themselves to have instruments of music like David; . . .

Amos 8:3,10 And he said: What seest thou, Amos? And I said: A hook to draw down fruit. And the Lord said to me: The end is come upon my people Israel: I will not again pass by them any more. . . .

Zechariah 9:15 The Lord of hosts will protect them: and they shall devour, and subdue with the stones of the sling: and drinking they shall be inebriated as it were with wine, and they shall be filled as bowls, and as the horns of the altar.

Ephesians 5:18,19 And be not drunk with wine, wherein is luxury: but be ye filled with the Holy Spirit, . . .

Context
God's Judgment on the Earth
8The mirth of timbrels hath ceased, the noise of them that rejoice is ended, the melody of the harp is silent. 9They shall not drink wine with a song: the drink shall be bitter to them that drink it.10The city of vanity is broken down, every house is shut up, no man cometh in.…
Cross References
Isaiah 5:11
Woe to you that rise up early in the morning to follow drunkenness, and to drink in the evening, to be inflamed with wine.

Isaiah 5:20
Woe to you 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.

Isaiah 5:22
Woe to you that are mighty to drink wine, and stout men at drunkenness.

Ezekiel 26:13
And I will make the multitude of thy songs to cease, and the sound of thy harps shall be heard no more.

Isaiah 24:8
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