And
they shall say
unto the elders
of his city,
This our son
is
stubborn
and rebellious,
he will not obey
our voice;
he is a glutton,
and a drunkard.
And all
the men
of his city
shall stone him
with stones,
that he die:
so shalt
thou put evil
away from
among you;
and all Israel
shall hear,
and fear.
And it
come
to pass,
when
he heareth
the words
of this curse,
that he
bless himself
in his heart,
saying,
I shall have peace,
though I
walk
in the imagination
of mine heart,
to add drunkenness
to thirst:
And Eli
said
unto her,
How long
wilt thou
be drunken?
put away
thy wine
from thee.
They that
sit
in the gate
speak against me;
and
I was the song
of the drunkards.
Wine is a mocker,
strong drink
is raging:
and whosoever
is deceived
thereby is not wise.
He that
loveth
pleasure
shall be
a poor man:
he that
loveth wine
and oil
shall not be rich.
Be not
among winebibbers;
among riotous eaters
of flesh:
For the drunkard
and the glutton
shall come
to poverty:
and drowsiness
shall clothe a man
with rags.
Who hath woe?
who hath sorrow?
who hath
contentions?
who hath babbling?
who hath
wounds without cause?
who hath redness
of eyes?
They that
tarry long
at the wine;
they that
go
to seek mixed wine.
Look not
thou
upon the wine
when it
is red,
when it
giveth
his colour
in the cup,
when it
moveth itself aright.
At the last
it biteth like
a serpent,
and stingeth like
an adder.
Thine eyes
shall behold
strange women,
and thine heart
shall utter
perverse things.
Yea,
thou shalt be
as he
that lieth down
in the midst
of the sea,
or as he
that lieth
upon the top
of a mast.
They have stricken me,
shalt thou say,
and
I was not sick;
they have beaten me,
and
I felt it not:
when shall
I awake?
I will seek it
yet again.
It is not
for kings,
O Lemuel,
it is not
for kings
to drink wine;
nor
for princes strong drink:
Lest
they drink,
and forget
the law,
and pervert
the judgment
of any of the afflicted.
Give strong drink
unto him that is ready
to perish,
and wine
unto those
that be
of heavy hearts.
Let him drink,
and forget
his poverty,
and remember
his misery no more.
Woe unto them that rise
up early
in the morning,
that they
may follow
strong drink;
that continue until night,
till wine
inflame them!
And the harp,
and the viol,
the tabret,
and pipe,
and wine,
are in their feasts:
but
they regard not
the work
of the LORD,
neither consider
the operation
of his hands.
Woe unto them that
are mighty
to drink wine,
and men
of strength
to mingle strong drink:
The LORD
hath mingled
a perverse spirit
in the midst
thereof:
and
they have caused Egypt
to err in every work
thereof,
as a drunken man
staggereth in his vomit.
They shall not drink wine
with a song;
strong drink
shall be bitter
to them that drink it.
There is
a crying
for wine
in the streets;
all joy
is darkened,
the mirth
of the land
is gone.
Woe to the crown
of pride,
to the drunkards
of Ephraim,
whose glorious beauty
is a fading flower,
which are on the head
of the fat valleys
of them that
are overcome
with wine!
The crown
of pride,
the drunkards
of Ephraim,
shall be trodden
under feet:
But
they also have erred
through wine,
and
through strong drink
are out of the way;
the priest
and the prophet
have erred
through strong drink,
they are swallowed up
of wine,
they are
out of the way
through strong drink;
they err
in vision,
they stumble
in judgment.
Come ye,
say they,
I will fetch wine,
and
we will fill ourselves
with strong drink;
and to morrow
shall be
as this day,
and much more abundant.
Therefore thou
shalt say unto them,
Thus
saith
the LORD
of hosts,
the God
of Israel;
Drink ye,
and be drunken,
and spue,
and fall,
and rise no more,
because
of the sword
which I
will send
among you.
Whoredom
and wine
and new wine
take away
the heart.
In the day
of our king
the princes
have made him sick
with bottles
of wine;
he stretched out his hand
with scorners.
And
they have not cried
unto me
with their heart,
when they
howled
upon their beds:
they assemble themselves
for corn
and wine,
and
they
rebel against me.
Awake,
ye drunkards,
and weep;
and howl,
all
ye drinkers
of wine,
because
of the new wine;
for it
is cut off
from your mouth.
And
they have cast lots
for my people;
and have given
a boy
for an harlot,
and sold
a girl
for wine,
that they
might drink.
And
they lay themselves down
upon clothes
laid
to pledge
by every altar,
and
they drink
the wine
of the condemned
in the house
of their god.
But ye
gave
the Nazarites wine
to drink;
and commanded
the prophets,
saying,
Prophesy not.
If a man
walking
in the spirit
and falsehood
do lie,
saying,
I will prophesy
unto thee
of wine
and of strong drink;
he shall even be the prophet
of this people.
For while
they be folden
together
as thorns,
and
while they
are drunken
as drunkards,
they
shall be devoured
as stubble
fully dry.
Woe unto him that
giveth his neighbour drink,
that puttest
thy bottle
to him,
and makest him drunken also,
that thou
mayest look
on their nakedness!
Thou art
filled
with shame
for glory:
drink thou also,
and let
thy foreskin
be uncovered:
the cup
of the LORD's right
hand shall be turned
unto thee,
and shameful spewing
shall be on thy glory.
And shall begin
to smite
his fellowservants,
and to eat and drink
with the drunken;
But and
if that servant
say in his heart,
My lord
delayeth his coming;
and shall begin
to beat the menservants
and maidens,
and to eat and drink,
and to be drunken;
And take
heed
to yourselves,
lest at any
time your hearts
be overcharged
with surfeiting,
and drunkenness,
and cares
of this life,
and
so that day
come upon you unawares.
Let us
walk honestly,
as in the day;
not in rioting
and drunkenness,
not in chambering
and wantonness,
not in strife
and envying.
But now
I have written
unto you not
to keep company,
if any man
that is called
a brother
be
a fornicator,
or covetous,
or an idolater,
or a railer,
or a drunkard,
or an extortioner;
with such
an one no not
to eat.
Know
ye not
that the unrighteous
shall not inherit
the kingdom
of God?
Be not deceived:
neither fornicators,
nor idolaters,
nor adulterers,
nor effeminate,
nor abusers
of themselves
with mankind,
Nor thieves,
nor covetous,
nor drunkards,
nor revilers,
nor extortioners,
shall inherit
the kingdom
of God.
Now
the works
of the flesh
are manifest,
which are these;
Adultery,
fornication,
uncleanness,
lasciviousness,
Idolatry,
witchcraft,
hatred,
variance,
emulations,
wrath,
strife,
seditions,
heresies,
Envyings,
murders,
drunkenness,
revellings,
and such like:
of the which
I tell you
before,
as I
have also told you
in time past,
that they
which do
such things
shall not inherit
the kingdom
of God.
And be not drunk
with wine,
wherein is excess;
but be filled
with the Spirit;
For they
that sleep
sleep
in the night;
and they that
be drunken
are drunken
in the night.