“Yea also, because he transgresseth by wine, he is a proud man, neither keepeth at home, who enlargeth his desire as hell, and is as death, and cannot be satisfied, but gathereth unto him all nations, and heapeth unto him all people:”
Moreover, wine is treacherous; the arrogant man shall not abide. His greed is as wide as Sheol; like death he has never enough. He gathers for himself all nations and collects as his own all peoples—the characterization of Babylon's insatiable appetite for conquest and wealth establishes that self-deification and moral corruption are inevitably linked. The comparison to Sheol (the grave, death) suggests that despite outward power, Babylon is fundamentally spiritually dead, consuming without satisfaction. This verse introduces the woes against Babylon that follow.
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