For the Lord has prepared for them a spirit of error, and they have caused Egypt to err in all their works, as one staggers who is drunken and vomits also.

See how they are all blinded; they have not known; [they are] dumb dogs [that] will not bark; dreaming of rest, loving to slumber.

[This translation omits this verse.]

You shall not drink wine nor strong drink, you and your sons with you, whenever you enter into the tabernacle of witness, or when you approach the altar, so shall you not die; [it is] a perpetual statute for your generations,

to distinguish between sacred and profane, and between clean and unclean,

Wine is a mocker, and strong drink full of violence; but every fool is entangled with them.

Princes are prone to anger: let them then not drink wine:

lest they drink, and forget wisdom, and not be able to judge the poor rightly.

Blessed are you, O land, whose king is a son of nobles, and whose princes shall eat seasonably, for strength, and shall not be ashamed.

And no priest shall drink any wine, when they go into the inner court.

The heart of My people has gladly engaged in fornication and wine and strong drink.

you have fled, no one pursues [you]: [your] spirit has framed falsehood, it has dropped on you for wine and strong drink. But it shall come to pass, that out of the dropping of this people,

"Immediately after the tribulation of those days, the sun shall be darkened, and the moon shall not give its light; and the stars shall fall from heaven, and the powers of the heavens shall be shaken.

"But take heed to yourselves, lest your hearts be weighed down with carousing, drunkenness, and worries of life, and that Day come upon you unexpectedly.

So husbands ought to love their own wives as their own bodies; he that loves his own wife loves himself.

They are troubled, they stagger as a drunkard, and all their wisdom is swallowed up.

O My people, your exactors strip you, and extortioners rule over you; O My people, they that pronounce you blessed lead you astray, and pervert the path of your feet.

And they that pronounce this people blessed shall mislead them; and they mislead them that they may devour them.

Then the Lord said to me, The prophets prophesy lies in My name. I sent them not, and I commanded them not, and I spoke not to them: for they prophesy to you false visions, divinations, and worthless things, and devices of their own heart.

And in the prophets of Samaria I have seen lawless deeds; they prophesied by Baal, and led My people Israel astray.

Thus says the Lord Almighty, Hearken not to the words of the prophets, for they frame a vain vision for themselves; they speak from their own heart, and not from the mouth of the Lord.

DALETH. He has bent His bow as an opposing enemy; He has strengthened His right hand as an adversary, and has destroyed all the desirable things of my eyes in the tabernacle of the daughter of Zion; He has poured forth His anger as fire.

Have you not seen a false vision, and spoken vain prophecies?

They asked counsel by [means of] signs, and they reported answer to them by their staves: they have gone astray in a spirit of harlotry, and gone grievously a-whoring from their God.