You are doomed! Heroes of the wine bottle! Brave and fearless when it comes to mixing drinks!

The kingdom of Israel is doomed! Its glory is fading like the crowns of flowers on the heads of its drunken leaders. Their proud heads are well perfumed, but there they lie, dead drunk.

Show me people who drink too much, who have to try out fancy drinks, and I will show you people who are miserable and sorry for themselves, always causing trouble and always complaining. Their eyes are bloodshot, and they have bruises that could have been avoided.

(SEE 23:29)

A country is in trouble when its king is a youth and its leaders feast all night long.

But a country is fortunate to have a king who makes his own decisions and leaders who eat at the proper time, who control themselves and don't get drunk.

On the day of the king's celebration they made the king and his officials drunk and foolish with wine.

Yes, they burned like an oven with their plotting. All night their anger smoldered, and in the morning it burst into flames.

You are doomed! In your fury you humiliated and disgraced your neighbors; you made them stagger as though they were drunk.

"Be careful not to let yourselves become occupied with too much feasting and drinking and with the worries of this life, or that Day may suddenly catch you

Let us conduct ourselves properly, as people who live in the light of day---no orgies or drunkenness, no immorality or indecency, no fighting or jealousy.

or who steal or are greedy or are drunkards or who slander others or are thieves---none of these will possess God's Kingdom.

they are envious, get drunk, have orgies, and do other things like these. I warn you now as I have before: those who do these things will not possess the Kingdom of God.

So then, we should not be sleeping like the others; we should be awake and sober.

It is at night when people sleep; it is at night when they get drunk.

Even the prophets and the priests are so drunk that they stagger. They have drunk so much wine and liquor that they stumble in confusion. The prophets are too drunk to understand the visions that God sends, and the priests are too drunk to decide the cases that are brought to them.

The tables where they sit are all covered with vomit, and not a clean spot is left.

Drinking too much makes you loud and foolish. It's stupid to get drunk.

The next morning you will feel as if you had been bitten by a poisonous snake.