One of the many signs of alcoholism is drinking in the morning. Isaiah is describing those that drink from morning until night. Under the Law of Moses, there were no proscriptions against wine or strong drink but there are many Old Testament scriptures which warn against drunkenness and excess.
"The liquor fight is an eternal battle and moves from scene to scene and sin to sin.
"Alcoholic Beveragesa-Kimball, Spencer W.TPThere are numerous people who profit financially-some politicians, manufacturers, wholesalers, deliverers, dispensers, and the underworld. Added to that army are the rationalizers who demand their liquor, regardless of harm to others. Do they pray over their work?
"Alcoholic Beveragesa-Kimball, Spencer W.TP'The liquor traffic is sacrilege, for it seeks profit from the damnation of human souls.' (Harry Emerson Fosdick.)
"Alcoholic Beveragesa-Kimball, Spencer W.TPArguments are specious, but to the gullible, unsuspecting, righteous, busy people, they are made to seem plausible. The tax argument, the employment one, the school lunch program, the freedom to do as one pleases-all are like sieves with many holes. There is just enough truth in them to deceive. Satan deals in half truths." (The Teachings of Spencer W. Kimball, edited by Edward L. Kimball [Salt Lake City: Bookcraft, 1982], 206-207 as taken from Commentaries on Isaiah in the Book of Mormon, ed. by K. Douglas Bassett, [American Fork, UT: Covenant Publishing Co., 2003], 104)