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Isaiah 24:7

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

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Afflictions and Adversities;   Worldliness;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Wine;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Feasts;   Isaiah;   Vine;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Isaiah;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Isaiah, Book of;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Groan;   Isaiah;  

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 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 Look! The Lord is about to destroy the earth and make it a vast wasteland. He devastates the surface of the earth and scatters the people. 2 Priests and laypeople, servants and masters, maids and mistresses, buyers and sellers, lenders and borrowers, bankers and debtors—none will be spared. 3 The earth will be completely emptied and looted. The Lord has spoken! 4 The earth mourns and dries up, and the land wastes away and withers. Even the greatest people on earth waste away. 5 The earth suffers for the sins of its people, for they have twisted God's instructions, violated his laws, and broken his everlasting covenant. 6 Therefore, a curse consumes the earth. Its people must pay the price for their sin. They are destroyed by fire, and only a few are left alive. 7 The grapevines waste away, and there is no new wine. All the merrymakers sigh and mourn. 8 The cheerful sound of tambourines is stilled; the happy cries of celebration are heard no more. The melodious chords of the harp are silent. 9 Gone are the joys of wine and song; alcoholic drink turns bitter in the mouth. 10 The city writhes in chaos; every home is locked to keep out intruders.

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 13:15
I am giving all this land, as far as you can see, to you and your descendants as a permanent possession.
Genesis 15:18
So the Lord made a covenant with Abram that day and said, "I have given this land to your descendants, all the way from the border of Egypt to the great Euphrates River—
Genesis 17:8
And I will give the entire land of Canaan, where you now live as a foreigner, to you and your descendants. It will be their possession forever, and I will be their God."
Genesis 24:1
Abraham was now a very old man, and the Lord had blessed him in every way.
Genesis 24:3
Swear by the Lord , the God of heaven and earth, that you will not allow my son to marry one of these local Canaanite women.
Genesis 24:4
Go instead to my homeland, to my relatives, and find a wife there for my son Isaac."
Genesis 24:5
The servant asked, "But what if I can't find a young woman who is willing to travel so far from home? Should I then take Isaac there to live among your relatives in the land you came from?"
Genesis 24:6
"No!" Abraham responded. "Be careful never to take my son there.
Genesis 24:7
For the Lord , the God of heaven, who took me from my father's house and my native land, solemnly promised to give this land to my descendants. He will send his angel ahead of you, and he will see to it that you find a wife there for my son.
Genesis 24:16
Rebekah was very beautiful and old enough to be married, but she was still a virgin. She went down to the spring, filled her jug, and came up again.

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.


 
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