Isaiah 24:7
ESV
The wine mourns, the vine languishes, all the merry-hearted sigh.
NIV
The new wine dries up and the vine withers; all the merrymakers groan.
NASB
The new wine mourns, The vine decays, All the joyful-hearted sigh.
CSB
The new wine mourns; the vine withers. All the carousers now groan.
NLT
The grapevines waste away, and there is no new wine. All the merrymakers sigh and mourn.
KJV
The new wine mourneth, the vine languisheth, all the merryhearted do sigh.
NKJV
The new wine fails, the vine languishes, All the merry-hearted sigh.
What does Isaiah 24:7 mean?
This passage describes some cataclysmic event which scatters humanity and leaves the earth destroyed and dying. This immeasurable event will be judgement from the Lord, in response to human sin. The Lord has said the few people who have survived to this point are scorched, implying drought and perhaps an unrelenting sun (Isaiah 24:3–6).Now Isaiah identifies wine grapes as one example of a crop that doesn't make it through this destruction. The result is that the wine "mourns," or dries up, causing the vines to wither and languish. Those looking for some relief in their suffering from the wine those grapes would have produced are left empty-handed. There will be no alcohol to provide escape from the torment. This probably means that other plants, including food crops and feed for livestock, will be virtually extinct.
