⁷ For those who sleep, sleep at night, and those who get drunk, ^(A)are drunk at night.

¹³ suffering wrong as ^(A)the wage for their wrongdoing. They count it pleasure ^(B)to revel in the daytime. They are blots and blemishes, reveling in their deceptions,^[a] while ^(C)they feast with you.

^13 (A)Let us walk properly as in the daytime, ^(B)not in orgies and drunkenness, not in sexual immorality and sensuality, ^(C)not in quarreling and jealousy.

^34 (A)Wake up from your drunken stupor, as is right, and do not go on sinning. For ^(B)some have no knowledge of God. ^(C)I say this to your shame.

¹⁵ For these people are not drunk, as you suppose, ^(A)since it is only the third hour of the day.^[a]

⁴ They drank wine and ^(A)praised the ^(B)gods of gold and silver, bronze, iron, wood, and stone.

^5 (C)Immediately ^(D)the fingers of a human hand appeared and wrote on the plaster of the wall of the king's palace, opposite the lampstand. And the king saw ^(E)the hand as it wrote.

¹⁴ for anything that becomes visible is light. Therefore it says,

Watch Yourselves

³⁴ “But watch yourselves ^(A)lest ^(B)your hearts be weighed down with dissipation and drunkenness and ^(C)cares of this life, and ^(D)that day come upon you suddenly ^(E)like a trap. ³⁵ For it will come upon all who dwell on the face of the whole earth.