At your feasts you have harps and tambourines and flutes---and wine. But you don't understand what the LORD is doing,

My head is spinning, and I am trembling with fear. I had been longing for evening to come, but it has brought me nothing but terror.

In the vision a banquet is ready; rugs are spread for the guests to sit on. They are eating and drinking. Suddenly the command rings out: "Officers! Prepare your shields!"

'Let's get some wine,' these drunkards say, 'and drink all we can hold! Tomorrow will be even better than today!' "

You refuse to admit that a day of disaster is coming, but what you do only brings that day closer.

You like to compose songs, as David did, and play them on harps.

So you will be the first to go into exile. Your feasts and banquets will come to an end.

As it was in the time of Noah so shall it be in the days of the Son of Man.

It will be as it was in the time of Lot. Everybody kept on eating and drinking, buying and selling, planting and building.

'Let's get some wine,' these drunkards say, 'and drink all we can hold! Tomorrow will be even better than today!' "

If I have, as it were, fought "wild beasts" here in Ephesus simply from human motives, what have I gained? But if the dead are not raised to life, then, as the saying goes, "Let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we will die."

Your life here on earth has been full of luxury and pleasure. You have made yourselves fat for the day of slaughter.