Isaiah 24:9

THE MESSAGE

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
They no longer sing and drink wine;beer is bitter to those who drink it.

Hebrew Names Version
They shall not drink wine with a song; strong drink shall be bitter to those who drink it.

King James Version
They shall not drink wine with a song; strong drink shall be bitter to them that drink it.

English Standard Version
No more do they drink wine with singing; strong drink is bitter to those who drink it.

New American Standard Bible
They do not drink wine with song; Intoxicating drink is bitter to those who drink it.

New Century Version
People will no longer sing while they drink their wine. The beer will taste bitter to those who drink it.

Amplified Bible
They do not drink wine with a song; Strong drink is bitter to those who drink it.

World English Bible
They shall not drink wine with a song; strong drink shall be bitter to those who drink it.

Geneva Bible (1587)
They shall not drinke wine with mirth: strong drinke shall be bitter to them yt drinke it.

Legacy Standard Bible
They do not drink wine with song;Strong drink is bitter to those who drink it.

Berean Standard Bible
They no longer sing and drink wine; strong drink is bitter to those who consume it.

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

Complete Jewish Bible
They no longer sing as they drink their wine, strong liquor tastes bitter to those drinking it.

Darby Translation
They do not drink wine with a song; strong drink is bitter to them that drink it.

Easy-to-Read Version
They no longer sing as they drink their wine. The beer now tastes bitter to those who drink it.

George Lamsa Translation
They shall not drink wine with a song; strong drink shall be bitter to those who drink it.

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

Lexham English Bible
They do not drink wine with song; strong drink is bitter to those who drink it.

Literal Translation
They shall not drink wine with a song; fermented drink shall be bitter to those who drink it.

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
there shal no more wyne bedronke with myrth, the beer shal be bytter to the that drinke it,

American Standard Version
They shall not drink wine with a song; strong drink shall be bitter to them that drink it.

Bible in Basic English
There is no more drinking of wine with a song; strong drink will be bitter to those who take it.

JPS Old Testament (1917)
They drink not wine with a song; strong drink is bitter to them that drink it.

King James Version (1611)
They shall not drinke wine with a song, strong drinke shall bee bitter to them that drinke it.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
They shall drynke no more wine with mirth, strong drynke shalbe bytter to them that drinke it.

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
They are ashamed, they have not drunk wine; strong drink has become bitter to them that drink it.

English Revised Version
They shall not drink wine with a song; strong drink shall be bitter to them that drink it.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Thei schulen not drynke wyn; a bittere drynk schal be to hem that schulen drynke it.

Update Bible Version
They shall not drink wine with a song; strong drink shall be bitter to those that drink it.

Webster's Bible Translation
They shall not drink wine with a song; strong drink shall be bitter to them that drink it.

New English Translation
They no longer sing and drink wine; the beer tastes bitter to those who drink it.

New King James Version
They shall not drink wine with a song; Strong drink is bitter to those who drink it.

New Living Translation
Gone are the joys of wine and song; alcoholic drink turns bitter in the mouth.

New Life Bible
They do not drink wine with singing. Strong drink tastes bad to those who drink it.

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

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
With a song, they drink not wine, - Bitter is strong drink, to them who drink it:

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

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

Young's Literal Translation
With a song they drink not wine, Bitter is strong drink to those drinking it.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
They do not drink wine with song; Strong drink is bitter to those who drink it.

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 5:11, Isaiah 5:12, Psalms 69:12, Ecclesiastes 9:7, Amos 6:5-7, Amos 8:3, Amos 8:10, Zechariah 9:15, Ephesians 5:18, Ephesians 5:19

Reciprocal: Isaiah 16:10 - General Ezekiel 26:13 - General Daniel 6:18 - and passed Nahum 3:1 - to Matthew 26:29 - I will Luke 22:18 - the fruit Revelation 18:22 - the voice

Cross-References

Genesis 24:2
Abraham spoke to the senior servant in his household, the one in charge of everything he had, "Put your hand under my thigh and swear by God —God of Heaven, God of Earth—that you will not get a wife for my son from among the young women of the Canaanites here, but will go to the land of my birth and get a wife for my son Isaac."

Gill's Notes on the Bible

They shall not drink wine with a song,.... They that have wine to drink shall not drink it with that pleasure they have heretofore done; nor shall their drinking be attended with merry songs, such as are sung by drunkards, who, while they are quaffing, are chanting to the sound of the viol, or other musical instruments; see Amos 6:5:

strong drink shall be bitter to them that drink it; they shall have no gust for it, or relish of it, as they formerly had; either through bodily diseases upon themselves, or because of the calamities upon the nations and states in which they dwell: this will be the case of her that says, "I sit a queen, and shall see no sorrow", Revelation 18:7.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

drink wine with a song - That is, accompanied with a song, as the usual mode was in their feasts.

Strong drink - On the word שׁכר shêkār see the note at Isaiah 5:11.

Shall be bitter ... - They shall cease to find pleasure in it in consequence of the general calamitics that have come upon the nation.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Isaiah 24:9. Strong drink - "Palm wine"] This is the proper meaning of the word shechar, σικερα. Isaiah 5:11. All enjoyment shall cease: the sweetest wine shall become bitter to their taste.