receiving the wages of unrighteousness, counting as a pleasure to revel in the daytime, [they are] spots and blemishes, reveling in their deceptions while they feast with you,

having eyes full of adultery and unable to cease from sin, enticing unstable souls, having a heart having been trained in greediness, they are accursed children.

For when you eat, each one takes first his own supper, and one goes hungry and another is drunk!

What? Do you not have houses to eat and drink in? Or do you despise the church of God, and disgrace those who do not have? What shall I say to you? Shall I praise you in this? I do not praise you!

So they ate, and were completely filled; and He gave them their desire.

then the indignation of God rose up against them, and slew the fattest of them, and overthrew the choice men of Israel.

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.]

[As] I live, says the Lord God, surely because My sheep became a prey, and My sheep became meat to all the wild beasts of the field, because there were no shepherds, and the shepherds sought not out My sheep, and the shepherds fed themselves, but fed not My sheep,

And [is it] not enough for you that you fed on the good pasture, that you trampled with your feet the remnant of your pasture? And [that] you drank the standing water, [and that] you disturbed the residue with your feet?

And I will say to my soul, "Soul, you have many goods laid away for many years; relax; eat, drink, and be merry."'

But God said to him, ['You] fool! This night your soul will be required of you; then whose will those things be which you have prepared?'

But if that servant says in his heart, 'My master is delaying his coming,' and begins to beat the male and female servants, and to eat and drink and be drunk,

"Now there was a certain rich man who was clothed in purple and fine linen, enjoying himself splendidly every day.

"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.

whose end is destruction, whose god is their belly, and whose glory is in their shame--who are mindful of earthly things.

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.

You lived luxuriously upon the earth and you lived riotously, you nourished your hearts as in a day of slaughter.

As winds and clouds and rains are most evident [objects], so is he that boasts of a false gift.

What shall I do unto you, Ephraim? What shall I do to you, Judah? For your mercy is as a morning cloud, and as the early dew that goes away.

These are waterless wells, clouds being driven by a storm, for whom the darkness of the netherworld has been reserved forever.

that we may no longer be infants, being tossed as by waves, and being carried about by every wind of doctrine, by the trickery of men, by craftiness in regard to deceitful scheming,

And he shall be as a tree planted by the brooks of waters, which shall yield its fruit in its season, and its leaf shall not fall off; and whatsoever he shall do shall prosper.

For they shall soon be withered as the grass, and shall soon fall away as the green herbs.

But when the sun rose, it was scorched, and because it had no root, it withered away.

And seeing a fig tree by the road, He went up to it and found nothing on it but leaves, and said to it, "May fruit no longer come from you ever again." And immediately the fig tree withered away.

And when the disciples saw it, they marveled, saying, "How did the fig tree wither away so soon?"

But when the sun rose it was scorched, and because it had no root it was withered up.

And Peter, remembering, said to Him, "Rabbi, look! The fig tree which You cursed has dried up!"

And other [seed] fell on rock; and when it grew up, it withered away because it had no moisture.

Abide in Me, and I in you. Just as the branch cannot bear fruit on its own, unless it abides in the vine, so neither can you unless you abide in Me.

If anyone does not abide in Me, he is cast out like a branch and dries up; and they gather them and throw [them] into the fire, and they are burned.

But she who is living for pleasure is dead while she lives.

For it is impossible for those who were once enlightened, and have tasted of the heavenly gift, and became partakers of the Holy Spirit,

and having fallen away, to renew [them] again to repentance, since they crucify again for themselves the Son of God, and hold Him up to contempt.

but if it bears thorns and thistles, it is worthless and near to being cursed, of which the end [is] for burning.

For when they speak haughty [words] of emptiness, they entice through the lusts of the flesh, through lewdness, those who are escaping from those who are living in error,

For if having escaped from the corruptions of the world by the knowledge of the Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, yet by these, having become entangled they are defeated, the latter end has become worse for them than the first.

then will I remove them from the land which I gave them; and this house which I have consecrated to My name I will remove out of My sight, and I will make it a proverb and a byword among all nations.

Therefore say, Thus says the Lord: Shall it prosper? Shall not the roots of its tender stem and its fruit be blighted? Yea, all its early shoots shall be dried up, and [that] not by a mighty arm, nor by many people, to tear it up from its roots.

But He answered and said, "Every plant which My heavenly Father has not planted will be uprooted.

Now in the morning while passing by, they saw the fig tree dried up from [its] roots.