No more do they drink wine (A)with singing;
    strong drink is bitter to those who drink it.

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22 Woe to those who are (A)heroes at drinking wine,
    and valiant men in mixing strong drink,

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Enjoy Life with the One You Love

Go, (A)eat your bread with joy, and drink your wine with a merry heart, for God has already approved what you do.

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18 And (A)do not get drunk with wine, for that is (B)debauchery, but (C)be filled with the Spirit, 19 addressing one another in (D)psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and making melody to the Lord with your heart,

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10 (A)I will turn your feasts into mourning
    and all your songs into lamentation;
(B)I will bring sackcloth on every waist
    (C)and baldness on every head;
(D)I will make it like the mourning for an only son
    and the end of it like a bitter day.

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(A)The songs of the temple[a] (B)shall become wailings[b] in that day,”
declares the Lord God.
(C)“So many dead bodies!”
“They are thrown everywhere!”
(D)“Silence!”

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Footnotes

  1. Amos 8:3 Or palace
  2. Amos 8:3 Or The singing women of the palace shall wail

(A)who sing idle songs to the sound of the harp
    and like David (B)invent for themselves instruments of music,
(C)who drink wine in bowls
    and (D)anoint themselves with the finest oils,
    but are not grieved over the ruin of Joseph!
(E)Therefore they shall now be the first of those who go into exile,
    and the revelry of those who stretch themselves out shall pass away.”

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20 Woe to (A)those who call evil good
    and good evil,
(B)who put darkness for light
    and light for darkness,
who put bitter for sweet
    and sweet for bitter!

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11 Woe to those who (A)rise early in the morning,
    that they may run after strong drink,
who tarry late into the evening
    as wine inflames them!
12 (B)They have lyre and harp,
    tambourine and flute and wine at their feasts,
(C)but they do not regard the deeds of the Lord,
    or see the work of his hands.

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12 I am the talk of those who (A)sit in the gate,
    and the drunkards make (B)songs about me.

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15 The Lord of hosts (A)will protect them,
    and (B)they shall devour, (C)and tread down the sling stones,
and (D)they shall drink and roar as if drunk with wine,
    and be full like a bowl,
    drenched (E)like the corners of the altar.

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