Woe to the strong of you that drink wine, and the mighty that mingle strong drink;

Woe to the crown of pride, the hirelings of Ephraim, the flower that has fallen from the glory of the top of the fertile mountain, they that are drunken without wine.

Who [has] woe? Who has trouble? Who has quarrels? And who complains and disputes? Who has bruises without a cause? Whose eyes are livid?

[Are] not [those] of them that stay long at wine? Are not those of them that haunt [the places] where banquets are? Be not drunk with wine; but converse with just men, and converse with them openly.

Woe to you, O city, whose king is young, and your princes eat in the morning!

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.

[In] the days of our kings, the princes began to be inflamed with wine: he stretched out his hand with pestilent fellows.

Wherefore their hearts are inflamed as an oven, while they rage all the night. Ephraim is satisfied with sleep; the morning has come; he is burnt up as a flame of fire.

Woe to him that gives his neighbor to drink the thick lees of wine, and intoxicates him, that he may look upon their secret parts.

"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.

Let us walk properly, as in the day, not in revelries and drinking bouts, not in orgies and debaucheries, not in strife and jealousy.

nor covetous, nor thieves, nor drunkards, nor abusive people, nor swindlers will inherit the kingdom of God.

envies, murders, drinking bouts, revelries, and the like; which I tell you beforehand, just as I also told you in time past, that those who practice such things will not inherit the kingdom of God.

Therefore let us not sleep, as others do, but let us watch and be sober.

For those who sleep, sleep at night, and those getting drunk, are drunk at night.

For these have trespassed through wine; they have erred through strong drink; the priest and the prophet are mad through strong drink, they are swallowed up by reason of wine, they have staggered through drunkenness; they have erred; this is [their] vision.

A curse shall devour this counsel, for this [is their] counsel for the sake of covetousness.

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

But at last [such a one] stretches himself out as one smitten by a serpent, and venom is diffused through him as by a horned serpent.