Lectionary Calendar
Sunday, August 3rd, 2025
the Week of Proper 13 / Ordinary 18
Attention!
For 10¢ a day you can enjoy StudyLight.org ads
free while helping to build churches and support pastors in Uganda.
Click here to learn more!

Read the Bible

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible

Isaiah 24:7

Mourneth the new wine. Withereth the vine, - Sighing are all the merryhearted:

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 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.
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 Lo! Yahweh emptying the earth and laying it waste, - And he will overturn the face thereof, And scatter them who dwell therein. 2 And it shall be - As the people, so, the priest, As the servant, so his lord, As the maid, so, her mistress, - As the buyer, so, the seller, As the lender, so, the borrower, As the debtor, so! his creditor. 3 Emptied - emptied - shall be the earth yea pillaged - pillaged, - For, Yahweh, hath spoken this word. 4 Mourneth, fadeth, the earth Languisheth, fadeth, the world, - Languished have the lofty of the people of the earth. 5 Yea the earth itself is profaned under them who dwell therein, - For they have Set aside laws, Gone beyond statute, Broken an age-abiding covenant. 6 For this cause, a curse, hath devoured the earth, And punished are the dwellers therein, - For this cause, are burned the inhabitants of the earth, And the men left remaining - are few. 7 Mourneth the new wine. Withereth the vine, - Sighing are all the merryhearted: 8 Ceased hath the mirth of timbrels, Ended is the noise of the uproarious, - Ceased hath the mirth of the lyre: 9 With a song, they drink not wine, - Bitter is strong drink, to them who drink it: 10 Broken down is the city of desolation, - Shut up every house that it cannot be entered.

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
for all the land which thou art beholding - to thee, will I give it, and to thy seed unto times age-abiding;
Genesis 15:18
In that day, did Yahweh solemnise with Abram a covenant, saying, - To thy seed, have I given this land, from the river of Egypt as far as the great river - the river Euphrates:
Genesis 17:8
And I will give to thee and to thy seed after thee the land of thy sojournings - all the land of Canaan, for an age-abiding possession - And I will be to them a God.
Genesis 24:1
Now, Abraham, was old, far gone in days, - and, Yahweh, had blessed Abraham, in all things.
Genesis 24:3
that I may put thee on oath, by Yahweh God of the heavens and God of the earth - That thou wilt not take a wife for my son, from among the daughters of the Canaanites in the midst of whom, I, am dwelling:
Genesis 24:4
but unto my own land and unto my own kindred, wilt go, - So shalt thou take a wife for my son - for Isaac.
Genesis 24:5
And the servant said unto him, Peradventure the woman may not be willing to follow me into this land, - May I take back thy son, into the land from whence thou earnest?
Genesis 24:6
And Abraham said unto him, - Beware that thou do not take back my son thither!
Genesis 24:7
Yahweh, God of the heavens, and God of the earth, who took me out of the house of my father, and out of the land of my kindred, and, who spake to me, and who sware to me, saying, To thy seed, will I give this land, he, will send his messenger before thee, so shalt then take a wife for my son from thence.
Genesis 24:16
Now the young woman! was of very pleasing appearance, a virgin whom, no man, had known, - and she went down unto the fountain, and filled her pitcher and came up.

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.


 
adsfree-icon
Ads FreeProfile