Whoredom and wine and new wine take away the heart — (Literally, “takes away”). Wine and fleshly sin are pictured as blended togeth…

Heart. — The whole inner life, consumed by these licentious indulgences.

The verb לקח lakech, means "to take away." The interpretation that wine and wantonness take possession of the heart is also admissible, bu…

Whoredom and wine, and new wine, take away the heart .
Uncleanness and intemperance besot men, deprive them of reaso…

Both priests and people rejected knowledge, so God will justly reject them. They forgot the law of God. They neither desired nor endeavored to reta…