Isaiah 24:9

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Isaiah 24:1-12

It is a very dark and melancholy scene that this prophecy presents to our view; turn our eyes which way we will, every thing looks dismal. The threatened desolations are here described in a great variety of expressions to the same purport, and all aggravating. I. The earth is stripped of all its ornaments and looks as if it were taken off its basis; it is made empty and waste (Isa. 24:1), as if it were reduced to its first chaos, Tohu and Bohu, nothing but confusion and emptiness again (Gen.... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Isaiah 24:9

They shall not drink wine with a song ,.... They that have wine to drink shall not drink it with that pleasure they have heretofore done; nor shall their drinking be attended with merry songs, such as are sung by drunkards, who, while they are quaffing, are chanting to the sound of the viol, or other musical instruments; see Amos 6:5 , strong drink shall be bitter to them that drink it ; they shall have no gust for it, or relish of it, as they formerly had; either through bodily... read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Isaiah 24:9

Strong drink "Palm wine" - This is the proper meaning of the word שכר shechar , σικερα . See note on Isaiah 5:11 . All enjoyment shall cease: the sweetest wine shall become bitter to their taste. read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Isaiah 24:1-12

The charge and the calamity. These words give a vivid and a terrible picture of calamity that should befall the people of God. It is suitably called "the curse" ( Isaiah 24:6 ), for it should prove an evil of the severest kind; and it would be other than a national misfortune—it would be the penalty of sin: therefore , because of the sins charged against the nation ( Isaiah 24:5 ), these multiplied sorrows would overtake and overwhelm them; "for the Lord hath spoken this word" ( ... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Isaiah 24:1-20

SECTION VI . GOD 'S GENERAL JUDGMENTS UPON THE EARTH (Isaiah 24-27.). GOD 'S JUDGMENTS ON THE WORLD AT LARGE . From special denunciations of woe upon particular nations—Babylon, Assyria, Philistia, Moab, Syria of Damascus, Egypt and Ethiopia, Arabia, Judea, Tyre—the prophet passes to denunciations of a broader character, involving the future of the whole world. This section of his work extends from the commencement of Isaiah 24:1-23 . to the conclusion of ... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Isaiah 24:1-20

God's final judgment upon the earth. In striking contrast with man's self-complacent theories of continual progress and improvement in the world, resulting in something like the final perfection of our race, is God's prophetic announcement that, as the years roll on, mankind will go from bad to worse, plunge deeper and deeper into wickedness, bring calamity after calamity upon themselves, and finally so provoke him that he will destroy the very earth itself as " defiled ' by its... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Isaiah 24:1-23

Prophecy of judgment. The difficulties, historically considered, of this chapter must be left to the exegete. We concern ourselves with the larger sense it contains of a prophecy of a judgment upon the whole world. I. THE APPROACHING DESOLATION . ( Isaiah 24:1-3 .) The figures of emptying , draining , are employed to denote the utter depopulation and impoverishment of the earth; also that of turning upside down , to denote disorganization and demoralization in every civil... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Isaiah 24:9

They shall not drink wine with a song . Men will still drink; they will seek to drown their care in wine; but they will not have the heart to attempt a song as they drink. Even in their cups they will be silent. Strong drink shall be bitter . By "strong drink" ( shekar ) seems to be meant any intoxicating liquor whatever, including wine. Many such liquors were drunk in Palestine. All were more or less pleasant to the taste; but they would taste bitter to those who were warped and... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Isaiah 24:9

The distress of pampered appetites. "They shall not drink wine with a song; strong drink shall be bitter to them that drink it." There is, at first, a carnal pleasure in self-indulgence, in lust of eating and drinking, and in sensuality. But, sooner or later, God takes the song out of it . This must ever be the distress of mere appetite—it can excite, it can make ever-increasing demands, but it cannot satisfy. To indulge mere appetite and passion is to " spend money for that which is... read more

Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Isaiah 24:9

drink wine with a song - That is, accompanied with a song, as the usual mode was in their feasts.Strong drink - On the word שׁכר shêkār see the note at Isaiah 5:11.Shall be bitter ... - They shall cease to find pleasure in it in consequence of the general calamitics that have come upon the nation. read more

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