No longer do they drink wine(A) with a song;
    the beer is bitter(B) to its drinkers.

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22 Woe to those who are heroes at drinking wine(A)
    and champions at mixing drinks,(B)

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Go, eat your food with gladness, and drink your wine(A) with a joyful heart,(B) for God has already approved what you do.

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18 Do not get drunk on wine,(A) which leads to debauchery. Instead, be filled with the Spirit,(B) 19 speaking to one another with psalms, hymns, and songs from the Spirit.(C) Sing and make music from your heart to the Lord,

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10 I will turn your religious festivals(A) into mourning
    and all your singing into weeping.(B)
I will make all of you wear sackcloth(C)
    and shave(D) your heads.
I will make that time like mourning for an only son(E)
    and the end of it like a bitter day.(F)

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“In that day,” declares the Sovereign Lord, “the songs in the temple will turn to wailing.[a](A) Many, many bodies—flung everywhere! Silence!(B)

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Footnotes

  1. Amos 8:3 Or “the temple singers will wail

You strum away on your harps(A) like David
    and improvise on musical instruments.(B)
You drink wine(C) by the bowlful
    and use the finest lotions,
    but you do not grieve(D) over the ruin of Joseph.(E)
Therefore you will be among the first to go into exile;(F)
    your feasting and lounging will end.(G)

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

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11 Woe(A) 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.(B)
12 They have harps and lyres at their banquets,
    pipes(C) and timbrels(D) and wine,
but they have no regard(E) for the deeds of the Lord,
    no respect for the work of his hands.(F)

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12 Those who sit at the gate(A) mock me,
    and I am the song of the drunkards.(B)

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15     and the Lord Almighty will shield(A) them.
They will destroy
    and overcome with slingstones.(B)
They will drink and roar as with wine;(C)
    they will be full like a bowl(D)
    used for sprinkling[a] the corners(E) of the altar.

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Footnotes

  1. Zechariah 9:15 Or bowl, / like

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