Isaiah 24:7

Douay-Rheims Bible

The vintage hath mourned, the vine hath languished away, all the merry have sighed.

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:

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 Behold the Lord shall lay waste the earth, and shall strip it, and shall afflict the face thereof, and scatter abroad the inhabitants thereof. ² And it shall be as with the people, so with the priest: and as with the servant so with his master: as with the handmaid, so with her mistress: as with the buyer, so with the seller: as with the lender, so with the borrower: as with him that calleth for his money, so with him that oweth. ³ With desolation shall the earth be laid waste, and it shall be utterly spoiled: for the Lord hath spoken this word. ⁴ The earth mourned, and faded away, and is weakened: the world faded away, the height of the people of the earth is weakened. ⁵ And the earth is infected by the inhabitants thereof: because they have transgressed the laws, they have changed the ordinance, they have broken the everlasting covenant. ⁶ Therefore shall a curse devour the earth, and the inhabitants thereof shall sin: and therefore they that dwell therein shall be mad, and few men shall be left. ⁷ The vintage hath mourned, the vine hath languished away, all the merry have sighed. ⁸ The mirth of timbrels hath ceased, the noise of them that rejoice is ended, the melody of the harp is silent. ⁹ They shall not drink wine with a song: the drink shall be bitter to them that drink it. ¹⁰ The city of vanity is broken down, every house is shut up, no man cometh in.

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
All the land which thou seest, I will give to thee, and to thy seed for ever.

Genesis 15:18
That day God made a covenant with Abram, saying: To thy seed will I give this land, from the river to Egypt even to the great river Euphrates.

Genesis 17:8
And I will give to thee, and to thy seed, the land of thy sojournment, all the land of Chanaan, for a perpetual possession, and I will be their God.

Genesis 24:1
Now Abraham was old, and advanced in age; and the Lord had blessed him in all things.

Genesis 24:3
That I may make thee swear by the Lord, the God of heaven and earth, that thou take not a wife for my son, of the daughters of the Chanaanites, among whom I dwell:

Genesis 24:4
But that thou go to my own country and kindred, and take a wife from thence for my son Isaac.

Genesis 24:5
The servant answered: If the woman will not come with me into this land, must I bring thy son back again to the place from whence thou camest out?

Genesis 24:6
And Abraham said: Beware thou never bring my son back again thither.

Genesis 24:7
The Lord God of heaven, who took me out of my father’s house, and out of my native country, who spoke to me, and swore to me, saying: To thy seed will I give this land: he will send his angel before thee, and thou shalt take from thence a wife for my son.

Genesis 24:16
An exceeding comely maid, and a most beautiful virgin, and not known to man: and she went down to the spring, and filled her pitcher, and was coming back.

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.