Whoredom and wine and new wine take away the heart.
Whoredom and wine and new wine take away the heart - a moral truth applicable to all times The special reference here is to the licentious orgies connected with the Syrian worship, which lured Israel away from the pure worship of God (Isaiah 28:1; Isaiah 28:7; Amos 4:1).
Take away the heart - i:e., the understanding; make men blind to their own true good (Ecclesiastes 7:7). In the language of Scripture, which speaks according to the deep realities of things, the "heart" expresses the intellect as well as the affections, because the heart guides the head, and the head or intellect becomes senseless when the heart that influences it is perverted.