You are doomed! You get up early in the morning to start drinking, and you spend long evenings getting drunk.

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

Instead, you laughed and celebrated. You killed sheep and cattle to eat, and you drank wine. You said, "We might as well eat and drink! Tomorrow we'll be dead."

"There was once a rich man who dressed in the most expensive clothes and lived in great luxury every day.

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.

But take up the weapons of the Lord Jesus Christ, and stop paying attention to your sinful nature and satisfying its desires.

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

Abigail went back to Nabal, who was at home having a feast fit for a king. He was drunk and in a good mood, so she did not tell him anything until the next morning.

Some ten days later the LORD struck Nabal and he died.

their hearts pour out evil, and their minds are busy with wicked schemes.

Then I will say to myself, Lucky man! You have all the good things you need for many years. Take life easy, eat, drink, and enjoy yourself !'

But God said to him, 'You fool! This very night you will have to give up your life; then who will get all these things you have kept for yourself ? ' "