Isaiah 5:13
11 Woe unto them that rise up early in the morning, that they may follow strong drink; that continue until night, till wine inflame them!
12 And the harp, and the viol, the tabret, and pipe, and wine, are in their feasts: but they regard not the work of the LORD, neither consider the operation of his hands.
Therefore my people are gone into captivity, because they have no knowledge: and their honourable men are famished, and their multitude dried up with thirst.
14 Therefore hell hath enlarged herself, and opened her mouth without measure: and their glory, and their multitude, and their pomp, and he that rejoiceth, shall descend into it.
15 And the mean man shall be brought down, and the mighty man shall be humbled, and the eyes of the lofty shall be humbled:
This was said to Israel at a particular time, so it is wise to read it together with the surrounding text. Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- Therefore My people will go into exile for their lack of understanding; their dignitaries are starving and their masses are parched with thirst.
- KJV
- Therefore my people are gone into captivity, because they have no knowledge: and their honourable men are famished, and their multitude dried up with thirst.
- WEB
- Therefore my people go into captivity for lack of knowledge. Their honorable men are famished, and their multitudes are parched with thirst.
- ASV
- Therefore my people are gone into captivity for lack of knowledge; and their honorable men are famished, and their multitude are parched with thirst.
- DARBY
- Therefore my people are led away captive from lack of knowledge, and their nobility die of famine, and their multitude are parched with thirst.
- BLB
- Therefore my people have gone into captivity from lack of knowledge; and its honored men go hungry, and its multitude [is] parched with thirst.
- ÅB
- Derfor blir mitt folk bortført uforvarende, dets stormenn lider hunger, og dets larmende hop vansmekter av tørst.
- OTB
- Derfor skal mitt folk gå i eksil for sin mangel på forståelse; deres fornemme menn skal dø av sult, og mengden skal tørste av tørst.
- B1930
- Derfor blir mitt folk bortført uforvarende, dets stormenn lider hunger, og dets larmende hop vansmekter av tørst.
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Hosea 4:6
My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge: because thou hast rejected knowledge, I will also reject thee, that thou shalt be no priest to me: seeing thou hast forgotten the law of thy God, I will also forget thy children.
Read in contextIsaiah 1:3
The ox knoweth his owner, and the ass his master’s crib: but Israel doth not know, my people doth not consider.
Read in contextIsaiah 27:11
When the boughs thereof are withered, they shall be broken off: the women come, and set them on fire: for it is a people of no understanding: therefore he that made them will not have mercy on them, and he that formed them will shew them no favour.
Read in contextIsaiah 1:7
Your country is desolate, your cities are burned with fire: your land, strangers devour it in your presence, and it is desolate, as overthrown by strangers.
Read in contextRomans 1:28
And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not convenient;
Read in contextJohn 3:19–20
And this is the condemnation, that light is come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil.
Read in contextMatthew 23:16–27
Woe unto you, ye blind guides, which say, Whosoever shall swear by the temple, it is nothing; but whosoever shall swear by the gold of the temple, he is a debtor!
Read in contextLamentations 4:4–5
The tongue of the sucking child cleaveth to the roof of his mouth for thirst: the young children ask bread, and no man breaketh it unto them.
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