Isaiah 5:22
Good News Translation
You are doomed! Heroes of the wine bottle! Brave and fearless when it comes to mixing drinks!

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

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

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

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

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Woe to you that are mighty to drink wine, and stout men at drunkenness.

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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 28:1-3,7 Woe to the crown of pride, to the drunkards of Ephraim, and to the fading flower the glory his joy, who were on the head of the fat valley, staggering with wine. . . .

Proverbs 23:19,20 Hear thou, my son, and be wise: and guide thy mind in the way. . . .

Habakkuk 2:15 Woe to him that giveth drink to his friend, and presenteth his gall, and maketh him drunk, that he may behold his nakedness.

Context
Woes to the Wicked
21Woe to you that are wise in your own eyes, and prudent in your own conceits. 22Woe to you that are mighty to drink wine, and stout men at drunkenness.23That justify the wicked for gifts, and take away the justice of the just from him.…
Cross References
Exodus 23:8
Neither shalt thou take bribes, which even blind the wise, and pervert the words of the just.

Proverbs 20:1
Wine is a luxurious thing, and drunkenness riotous: whosoever is delighted therewith, shall not be wise.

Proverbs 23:20
Be not in the feasts of great drinkers, nor in their revellings, who contribute flesh to eat:

Proverbs 23:29
Who hath woe? whose father hath woe? who hath contentions? who falls into pits? who hath wounds without cause? who hath redness of eyes?

Proverbs 31:4
Give not to kings, O Lamuel, give not wine to kings: because there is no secret where drunkenness reigneth:

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 22:13
And behold joy and gladness, killing calves, and slaying rams, eating flesh, and drinking wine: Let us eat and drink; for to morrow we shall die.

Isaiah 24:9
They shall not drink wine with a song: the drink shall be bitter to them that drink it.

Isaiah 28:7
But these also have been ignorant through wine, and through drunkenness have erred: the priest and the prophet have been ignorant through drunkenness, they are swallowed up with wine, they have gone astray in drunkenness, they have not known him that seeth, they have been ignorant of judgment.

Isaiah 56:12
Come, let us take wine, and be filled with drunkenness: and it shall be as to day, so also to morrow, and much more.

Habakkuk 2:15
Woe to him that giveth drink to his friend, and presenteth his gall, and maketh him drunk, that he may behold his nakedness.

Isaiah 5:21
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