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Isaiah 24:9–10

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They shall not drink wine with a song; strong drink shall be bitter to them that drink it.
The city of confusion is broken down: every house is shut up, that no man may come in.
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From verse 9

  1. Ecclesiastes 9:7Rank 1 from verse 9
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    7¶ Go thy way, eat thy bread with joy, and drink thy wine with a merry heart; for God now accepteth thy works.

  2. Isaiah 5:22Rank 2 from verse 9
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    22Woe unto them that are mighty to drink wine, and men of strength to mingle strong drink:

  3. Amos 6:5–7Rank 3 from verse 9
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    5That chant to the sound of the viol, and invent to themselves instruments of musick, like David;

    6That drink wine in bowls, and anoint themselves with the chief ointments: but they are not grieved for the affliction of Joseph.

    7¶ Therefore now shall they go captive with the first that go captive, and the banquet of them that stretched themselves shall be removed.

  4. Amos 8:10Rank 4 from verse 9
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    10And I will turn your feasts into mourning, and all your songs into lamentation; and I will bring up sackcloth upon all loins, and baldness upon every head; and I will make it as the mourning of an only son, and the end thereof as a bitter day.

  5. Amos 8:3Rank 5 from verse 9
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    3And the songs of the temple shall be howlings in that day, saith the Lord God: there shall be many dead bodies in every place; they shall cast them forth with silence.

  6. Ephesians 5:18–19Rank 6 from verse 9
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    18And be not drunk with wine, wherein is excess; but be filled with the Spirit;

    19Speaking to yourselves in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and making melody in your heart to the Lord;

  7. Isaiah 5:11–12Rank 7 from verse 9
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    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!

    12And 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.

  8. Isaiah 5:20Rank 8 from verse 9
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    20¶ Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light, and light for darkness; that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter!

  9. Psalms 69:12Rank 9 from verse 9
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    12They that sit in the gate speak against me; and I was the song of the drunkards.

  10. Zechariah 9:15Rank 10 from verse 9
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    15The Lord of hosts shall defend them; and they shall devour, and subdue with sling stones; and they shall drink, and make a noise as through wine; and they shall be filled like bowls, and as the corners of the altar.

From verse 10

  1. Revelation 18:2Rank 1 from verse 10
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    2And he cried mightily with a strong voice, saying, Babylon the great is fallen, is fallen, and is become the habitation of devils, and the hold of every foul spirit, and a cage of every unclean and hateful bird.

  2. Revelation 17:5–6Rank 2 from verse 10
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    5And upon her forehead was a name written, MYSTERY, BABYLON THE GREAT, THE MOTHER OF HARLOTS AND ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH.

    6And I saw the woman drunken with the blood of the saints, and with the blood of the martyrs of Jesus: and when I saw her, I wondered with great admiration.

  3. 2 Kings 25:4Rank 3 from verse 10
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    4¶ And the city was broken up, and all the men of war fled by night by the way of the gate between two walls, which is by the king’s garden: (now the Chaldees were against the city round about:) and the king went the way toward the plain.

  4. 2 Kings 25:9–10Rank 4 from verse 10
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    9And he burnt the house of the Lord, and the king’s house, and all the houses of Jerusalem, and every great man’s house burnt he with fire.

    10And all the army of the Chaldees, that were with the captain of the guard, brake down the walls of Jerusalem round about.

  5. Genesis 11:9Rank 5 from verse 10
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    9Therefore is the name of it called Babel; because the Lord did there confound the language of all the earth: and from thence did the Lord scatter them abroad upon the face of all the earth.

  6. Isaiah 23:1Rank 6 from verse 10
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    1THE burden of Tyre. Howl, ye ships of Tarshish; for it is laid waste, so that there is no house, no entering in: from the land of Chittim it is revealed to them.

  7. Isaiah 24:12Rank 7 from verse 10
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    12In the city is left desolation, and the gate is smitten with destruction.

  8. Isaiah 25:2Rank 8 from verse 10
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    2For thou hast made of a city an heap; of a defenced city a ruin: a palace of strangers to be no city; it shall never be built.

  9. Isaiah 27:10Rank 9 from verse 10
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    10Yet the defenced city shall be desolate, and the habitation forsaken, and left like a wilderness: there shall the calf feed, and there shall he lie down, and consume the branches thereof.

  10. Isaiah 32:14Rank 10 from verse 10
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    14Because the palaces shall be forsaken; the multitude of the city shall be left; the forts and towers shall be for dens for ever, a joy of wild asses, a pasture of flocks;

  11. Isaiah 34:11Rank 11 from verse 10
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    11¶ But the cormorant and the bittern shall possess it; the owl also and the raven shall dwell in it: and he shall stretch out upon it the line of confusion, and the stones of emptiness.

  12. Isaiah 34:13–15Rank 12 from verse 10
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    13And thorns shall come up in her palaces, nettles and brambles in the fortresses thereof: and it shall be an habitation of dragons, and a court for owls.

    14The wild beasts of the desert shall also meet with the wild beasts of the island, and the satyr shall cry to his fellow; the screech owl also shall rest there, and find for herself a place of rest.

    15There shall the great owl make her nest, and lay, and hatch, and gather under her shadow: there shall the vultures also be gathered, every one with her mate.

  13. Jeremiah 39:4Rank 13 from verse 10
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    4¶ And it came to pass, that when Zedekiah the king of Judah saw them, and all the men of war, then they fled, and went forth out of the city by night, by the way of the king’s garden, by the gate betwixt the two walls: and he went out the way of the plain.

  14. Jeremiah 39:8Rank 14 from verse 10
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    8¶ And the Chaldeans burned the king’s house, and the houses of the people, with fire, and brake down the walls of Jerusalem.

  15. Jeremiah 52:13–14Rank 15 from verse 10
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    13And burned the house of the Lord, and the king’s house; and all the houses of Jerusalem, and all the houses of the great men, burned he with fire:

    14And all the army of the Chaldeans, that were with the captain of the guard, brake down all the walls of Jerusalem round about.

  16. Jeremiah 52:7Rank 16 from verse 10
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    7Then the city was broken up, and all the men of war fled, and went forth out of the city by night by the way of the gate between the two walls, which was by the king’s garden; (now the Chaldeans were by the city round about:) and they went by the way of the plain.

  17. Jeremiah 9:25–26Rank 17 from verse 10
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    25¶ Behold, the days come, saith the Lord, that I will punish all them which are circumcised with the uncircumcised;

    26Egypt, and Judah, and Edom, and the children of Ammon, and Moab, and all that are in the utmost corners, that dwell in the wilderness: for all these nations are uncircumcised, and all the house of Israel are uncircumcised in the heart.

  18. Luke 19:43Rank 18 from verse 10
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    43For the days shall come upon thee, that thine enemies shall cast a trench about thee, and compass thee round, and keep thee in on every side,

  19. Luke 21:24Rank 19 from verse 10
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    24And they shall fall by the edge of the sword, and shall be led away captive into all nations: and Jerusalem shall be trodden down of the Gentiles, until the times of the Gentiles be fulfilled.

  20. Matthew 23:34–35Rank 20 from verse 10
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    34¶ Wherefore, behold, I send unto you prophets, and wise men, and scribes: and some of them ye shall kill and crucify; and some of them shall ye scourge in your synagogues, and persecute them from city to city:

    35That upon you may come all the righteous blood shed upon the earth, from the blood of righteous Abel unto the blood of Zacharias son of Barachias, whom ye slew between the temple and the altar.

  21. Micah 2:13Rank 21 from verse 10
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    13The breaker is come up before them: they have broken up, and have passed through the gate, and are gone out by it: and their king shall pass before them, and the Lord on the head of them.

  22. Micah 3:12Rank 22 from verse 10
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    12Therefore shall Zion for your sake be plowed as a field, and Jerusalem shall become heaps, and the mountain of the house as the high places of the forest.

  23. Revelation 11:7–8Rank 23 from verse 10
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    7And when they shall have finished their testimony, the beast that ascendeth out of the bottomless pit shall make war against them, and shall overcome them, and kill them.

    8And their dead bodies shall lie in the street of the great city, which spiritually is called Sodom and Egypt, where also our Lord was crucified.

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Isaiah 24:9

COMBINED MEANING

shall

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An auxiliary verb expressing future action, intention, promise, command, requirement, or determination.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references · Webster 1828

COMBINED MEANING

wine

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The produce of grapes or other fruit used as a drink.

Meaning drawn from: Direct Scripture definition · KJV context and cross-references

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strong

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Having great power, might, firmness, courage, capacity, influence, defence, health, intensity, or ability to act, endure, resist, overcome, or support.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

COMBINED MEANING

bitter

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Having a sharp, unpleasant taste opposed to sweet; grievous, harsh, painful, sorrowful, resentful, or severe in condition, feeling, speech, or effect.

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Isaiah 24:10

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confusion

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Sense 1: Disorder, uncertainty, or lack of understanding. Sense 2: Shame, disgrace, or frustrated defeat. Sense 3: Perverse mingling.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references · Bullokar 1616 · Webster 1828

COMBINED MEANING

every

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Each individual or member of the class, group, place, time, side, or kind named; all distributively.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references · Webster 1828

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house

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Sense 1: A building or dwelling. Sense 2: The people of a household or family. Sense 3: A lineage or family line. Sense 4: As a verb, to shelter, lodge, or provide a dwelling for.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

COMBINED MEANING

shut

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To close, fasten, block, confine, stop, exclude, or make inaccessible.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references · Webster 1828

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man

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1. A human being or person. 2. Mankind collectively. 3. A male person.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

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in

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1. A preposition marking position, presence, state, circumstance, manner, means, sphere, reference, relation, association, or participation. 2. As an adverb, inward, inside, or into the place or position referred to.

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24:8The mirth of tabrets ceaseth, the noise of them that rejoice endeth, the joy of the harp ceaseth.

24:9They shall not drink wine with a song; strong drink shall be bitter to them that drink it.

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24:10The city of confusion is broken down: every house is shut up, that no man may come in.

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24:11There is a crying for wine in the streets; all joy is darkened, the mirth of the land is gone.

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