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Your silver has become dross, your choice wine is diluted with water.
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He dug it up and cleared it of stones and planted it with the choicest vines. He built a watchtower in it and cut out a winepress as well. Then he looked for a crop of good grapes, but it yielded only bad fruit.
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A ten-acre vineyard will produce only a bath of wine; a homer of seed will yield only an ephah of grain.”
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Woe to those who rise early in the morning to run after their drinks, who stay up late at night till they are inflamed with wine.
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They have harps and lyres at their banquets, pipes and timbrels and wine, but they have no regard for the deeds of the Lord, no respect for the work of his hands.
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Woe to those who are heroes at drinking wine and champions at mixing drinks,
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Joy and gladness are taken away from the orchards; no one sings or shouts in the vineyards; no one treads out wine at the presses, for I have put an end to the shouting.
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But see, there is joy and revelry, slaughtering of cattle and killing of sheep, eating of meat and drinking of wine! “Let us eat and drink,” you say, “for tomorrow we die!”
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The new wine dries up and the vine withers; all the merrymakers groan.
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No longer do they drink wine with a song; the beer is bitter to its drinkers.
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In the streets they cry out for wine; all joy turns to gloom, all joyful sounds are banished from the earth.
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On this mountain the Lord Almighty will prepare a feast of rich food for all peoples, a banquet of aged wine— the best of meats and the finest of wines.
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Woe to the Leaders of Ephraim and Judah
Woe to that wreath, the pride of Ephraim’s drunkards, to the fading flower, his glorious beauty, set on the head of a fertile valley— to that city, the pride of those laid low by wine!
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And these also stagger from wine and reel from beer: Priests and prophets stagger from beer and are befuddled with wine; they reel from beer, they stagger when seeing visions, they stumble when rendering decisions.
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Be stunned and amazed, blind yourselves and be sightless; be drunk, but not from wine, stagger, but not from beer.
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until I come and take you to a land like your own—a land of grain and new wine, a land of bread and vineyards.
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I will make your oppressors eat their own flesh; they will be drunk on their own blood, as with wine. Then all mankind will know that I, the Lord, am your Savior, your Redeemer, the Mighty One of Jacob.”
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Therefore hear this, you afflicted one, made drunk, but not with wine.
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Invitation to the Thirsty
“Come, all you who are thirsty, come to the waters; and you who have no money, come, buy and eat! Come, buy wine and milk without money and without cost.
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“Come,” each one cries, “let me get wine! Let us drink our fill of beer! And tomorrow will be like today, or even far better.”
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The Lord has sworn by his right hand and by his mighty arm: “Never again will I give your grain as food for your enemies, and never again will foreigners drink the new wine for which you have toiled;
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Why are your garments red, like those of one treading the winepress?
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“I have trodden the winepress alone; from the nations no one was with me. I trampled them in my anger and trod them down in my wrath; their blood spattered my garments, and I stained all my clothing.
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“But as for you who forsake the Lord and forget my holy mountain, who spread a table for Fortune and fill bowls of mixed wine for Destiny,
