Isaiah 24:7

THE MESSAGE

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
The new wine mourns;the vine withers.All the carousers now groan.

Hebrew Names Version
The new wine mourns, the vine languishes, all the merry-hearted do sigh.

King James Version
The new wine mourneth, the vine languisheth, all the merryhearted do sigh.

English Standard Version
The wine mourns, the vine languishes, all the merry-hearted sigh.

New American Standard Bible
The new wine mourns, The vine decays, All the joyful-hearted sigh.

New Century Version
The new wine will be bad, and the grapevines will die. People who were happy will be sad.

Amplified Bible
The new wine mourns, The vine decays; All the merry-hearted sigh and groan.

World English Bible
The new wine mourns, the vine languishes, all the merry-hearted do sigh.

Geneva Bible (1587)
The wine faileth, the vine hath no might: all that were of merie heart, doe mourne.

Legacy Standard Bible
The new wine mourns;The vine languishes;All the glad of heart sigh.

Berean Standard Bible
The new wine dries up; the vine withers. All the merrymakers now groan.

Contemporary English Version
Grapevines have dried up: wine is almost gone— mournful sounds are heard instead of joyful shouts.

Complete Jewish Bible
The new wine fails, the vines wilt, all the revelers sigh,

Darby Translation
The new wine mourneth, the vine languisheth, all that were merry-hearted do sigh;

Easy-to-Read Version
The grapevines are dying. The new wine is bad. People who were happy are now sad.

George Lamsa Translation
The grain mourns, the vine languishes, all the merry-hearted sigh.

Good News Translation
The grapevines wither, and wine is becoming scarce. Everyone who was once happy is now sad,

Lexham English Bible
The new wine dries up; the vine languishes. All the merry of heart sigh;

Literal Translation
The new wine has failed; the vine droops; all the merry-hearted sigh.

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
The swete wyne shal mourne, the grapes shalbe weake, and all yt haue bene mery in harte, shal sighe.

American Standard Version
The new wine mourneth, the vine languisheth, all the merry-hearted do sigh.

Bible in Basic English
The new wine is thin, the vine is feeble, and all the glad-hearted make sounds of grief.

JPS Old Testament (1917)
The new wine faileth, the vine fadeth; all the merry-hearted do sigh.

King James Version (1611)
The new wine mourneth, the vine languisheth, all the merrie hearted doe sigh.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
The wine fayleth, the vine hath no myght, all they that haue ben mery of heart are come to mournyng.

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
The wine shall mourn, the vine shall mourn, all the merry-hearted shall sigh.

English Revised Version
The new wine mourneth, the vine languisheth, all the merryhearted do sigh.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Vyndage morenyde, the vyne is sijk; alle men that weren glad in herte weiliden.

Update Bible Version
The new wine mourns, the vine languishes, all the merry-hearted sigh.

Webster's Bible Translation
The new wine mourneth, the vine languisheth, all the merry-hearted do sigh.

New English Translation
The new wine dries up, the vines shrivel up, all those who like to celebrate groan.

New King James Version
The new wine fails, the vine languishes, All the merry-hearted sigh.

New Living Translation
The grapevines waste away, and there is no new wine. All the merrymakers sigh and mourn.

New Life Bible
The new wine dries up and the vine wastes away. All the glad in heart are in sorrow.

New Revised Standard
The wine dries up, the vine languishes, all the merry-hearted sigh.

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Mourneth the new wine. Withereth the vine, - Sighing are all the merryhearted:

Douay-Rheims Bible
The vintage hath mourned, the vine hath languished away, all the merry have sighed.

Revised Standard Version
The wine mourns, the vine languishes, all the merry-hearted sigh.

Young's Literal Translation
Mourned hath the new wine, languished the vine, Sighed have all the joyful of heart.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
The new wine mourns, The vine decays, All the merry-hearted sigh.

Contextual Overview

¹ Danger ahead! God 's about to ravish the earth and leave it in ruins, Rip everything out by the roots and send everyone scurrying: priests and laypeople alike, owners and workers alike, celebrities and nobodies alike, buyers and sellers alike, bankers and beggars alike, the haves and have-nots alike. The landscape will be a moonscape, totally wasted. And why? Because God says so. He's issued the orders. ⁴ The earth turns gaunt and gray, the world silent and sad, sky and land lifeless, colorless. ⁵Earth is polluted by its very own people, who have broken its laws, Disrupted its order, violated the sacred and eternal covenant. Therefore a curse, like a cancer, ravages the earth. Its people pay the price of their sacrilege. They dwindle away, dying out one by one. No more wine, no more vineyards, no more songs or singers. The laughter of castanets is gone, the shouts of celebrants, gone, the laughter of fiddles, gone. No more parties with toasts of champagne. Serious drinkers gag on their drinks. The chaotic cities are unlivable. Anarchy reigns. Every house is boarded up, condemned. People riot in the streets for wine, but the good times are gone forever— no more joy for this old world. The city is dead and deserted, bulldozed into piles of rubble. That's the way it will be on this earth. This is the fate of all nations: An olive tree shaken clean of its olives, a grapevine picked clean of its grapes.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Isaiah 16:8, Isaiah 16:10, Isaiah 32:9-13, Hosea 9:1, Hosea 9:2, Joel 1:10-12

Reciprocal: Judges 9:27 - merry Job 20:18 - and he shall Job 30:31 - General Isaiah 24:11 - all joy Isaiah 32:10 - Many days and years Jeremiah 7:34 - to cease Jeremiah 14:2 - the gates Jeremiah 16:9 - I will Jeremiah 25:10 - voice of mirth Jeremiah 48:33 - joy Lamentations 5:14 - the young Hosea 2:8 - wine Hosea 2:11 - cause Joel 1:5 - Awake Joel 1:7 - laid Joel 1:8 - Lament Luke 6:25 - mourn

Cross-References

Genesis 24:1
Abraham was now an old man. God had blessed Abraham in every way.

Genesis 24:5
The servant answered, "But what if the woman refuses to leave home and come with me? Do I then take your son back to your home country?"

Genesis 24:6
Abraham said, "Oh no. Never. By no means are you to take my son back there. God , the God of Heaven, took me from the home of my father and from the country of my birth and spoke to me in solemn promise, ‘I'm giving this land to your descendants.' This God will send his angel ahead of you to get a wife for my son. And if the woman won't come, you are free from this oath you've sworn to me. But under no circumstances are you to take my son back there."

Genesis 24:18
She said, "Certainly, drink!" And she held the jug so that he could drink. When he had satisfied his thirst she said, "I'll get water for your camels, too, until they've drunk their fill." She promptly emptied her jug into the trough and ran back to the well to fill it, and she kept at it until she had watered all the camels. The man watched, silent. Was this God 's answer? Had God made his trip a success or not?

Deuteronomy 34:4
Then and there God said to him, "This is the land I promised to your ancestors, to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob with the words ‘I will give it to your descendants.' I've let you see it with your own eyes. There it is. But you're not going to go in."

Judges 2:1
God 's angel went up from Gilgal to Bokim and said, "I brought you out of Egypt; I led you to the land that I promised to your fathers; and I said, I'll never break my covenant with you—never! And you're never to make a covenant with the people who live in this land. Tear down their altars! But you haven't obeyed me! What's this that you're doing?

Psalms 32:8
Let me give you some good advice; I'm looking you in the eye and giving it to you straight:

Psalms 34:7
God 's angel sets up a circle of protection around us while we pray.

Daniel 2:44
"But throughout the history of these kingdoms, the God of heaven will be building a kingdom that will never be destroyed, nor will this kingdom ever fall under the domination of another. In the end it will crush the other kingdoms and finish them off and come through it all standing strong and eternal. It will be like the stone cut from the mountain by the invisible hand that crushed the iron, the bronze, the ceramic, the silver, and the gold. "The great God has let the king know what will happen in the years to come. This is an accurate telling of the dream, and the interpretation is also accurate."

Jonah 1:9
He told them, "I'm a Hebrew. I worship God , the God of heaven who made sea and land."

Gill's Notes on the Bible

The new wine mourneth,.... For want men to drink it, or because spilled by the enemy; or the inhabitants of the land mourn for want of it, not having their vintages as usual:

the vine languisheth; or is sickly, and so barren and unfruitful, does not bring forth its clusters of grapes as it used to do; there being none to prune it, and take care of it, and being trodden down by hostile forces. The Targum is,

"all that drink wine shall mourn, because the vines are broken down.''

So the Romish harlot, and those that have drank of the wine of her fornication, and have lived deliciously, shall have, in one hour, death, and mourning, and famine, Revelation 18:7:

all the merryhearted do sigh; such, whose hearts wine has formerly made glad, shall now sigh for want of it; and such who have lived deliciously with the whore of Rome, and have had many a merry bout with her, shall now bewail her, and lament for her, when she shall be utterly burnt with fire, Revelation 18:9.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

The new wine languisheth - The new wine (תירושׁ tı̂yrôsh), denotes properly must, or wine that was newly expressed from the grape, and that was not fermented, usually translated ‘new wine,’ or ‘sweet wine.’ The expression here is poetic. The wine languishes or mourns because there are none to drink it; it is represented as grieved because it does not perform its usual office of exhilarating the heart, and the figure is thus an image of the desolation of the land.

The vine languisheth - It is sickly and unfruitful, because there are none to cultivate it as formerly. The idea is, that all nature sympathizes in the general calamity.

All the merry-hearted - Probably the reference is mainly to those who were once made happy at the plenteous feast, and at the splendid entertainments where wine abounded. They look now upon the widespread desolation of the land, and mourn.