Woe to those who rise up early in the morning to pursue strong drink; remaining until the evening while wine inflames them!

And the lute, and the harp, the tambourine, and pipe, and wine, are at their feasts; but they do not regard the work of Jehovah, neither do they give attention to the work of His hands.

Those who sit in the gate speak against me, and I am the taunting song of the drunkards.

Go, eat your bread with joy, and drink your wine with a merry heart; for God has already accepted your works.

who chant with the sound of the lute; they invent instruments of song for themselves like David;

Therefore they shall go into captivity with the first of the captives, and the feast of those who recline shall come to an end.

And the songs of the temple will be howling in that day, declares the Lord Jehovah. Many dead bodies everywhere; and they shall throw them out in silence.

And I will turn your feasts into mourning, and all your songs into lamentation. And I will bring up sackcloth on all loins, and baldness on every head. And I will make it like the mourning for an only one; and the end of it like a bitter day.

Jehovah of Hosts shall defend them. And they shall devour and subdue with slingstones. And they shall drink and roar, as with wine. And they shall be full like a bowl, like the corners of the altar.

And do not be drunk with wine, in which is debauchery; but be filled by the Spirit,

speaking to one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and making melody in your heart to the Lord,