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11 Woe to those who rise early in the morning
    in pursuit of strong drink,
who linger in the evening
    to be inflamed by wine,(A)

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29 Who has woe? Who has sorrow?
    Who has strife? Who has complaining?
Who has wounds without cause?
    Who has redness of eyes?(A)
30 Those who linger late over wine,
    those who keep trying mixed wines.(B)

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13 let us walk decently as in the day, not in reveling and drunkenness, not in illicit sex and licentiousness, not in quarreling and jealousy.(A)

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

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16 Alas for you, O land, when your king is a child
    and your princes feast in the morning!(A)
17 Happy are you, O land, when your king is a nobleman,
    and your princes feast at the proper time—
    for strength and not for drunkenness!(B)

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20 Wine is a mocker, strong drink a brawler,
    and whoever is led astray by it is not wise.(A)

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These also reel with wine
    and stagger with strong drink;
the priest and the prophet reel with strong drink;
    they are confused with wine;
    they stagger with strong drink;
they err in vision;
    they stumble in giving judgment.(A)
All tables are covered with filthy vomit;
    no place is clean.(B)

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21 envy,[a] drunkenness, carousing, and things like these. I am warning you, as I warned you before: those who do such things will not inherit the kingdom of God.(A)

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Footnotes

  1. 5.21 Other ancient authorities add murder

10 thieves, the greedy, drunkards, revilers, swindlers—none of these will inherit the kingdom of God.

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Judgment on Corrupt Rulers, Priests, and Prophets

28 Woe to the proud garland of the drunkards of Ephraim
    and the fading flower of its glorious beauty,
    at the head of the fertile valley,
    those overcome with wine!(A)

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So, then, let us not fall asleep as others do, but let us keep awake and be sober,(A) for those who sleep sleep at night, and those who are drunk get drunk at night.(B)

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Exhortation to Watch

34 “Be on guard so that your hearts are not weighed down with dissipation and drunkenness and the worries of this life and that day does not catch you unexpectedly,(A)

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15 “Alas for you who make your neighbors drink,
    pouring out your wrath until they are drunk,
    in order to gaze on their nakedness!”(A)

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On the day of our king the officials
    became sick with the heat of wine;
    he stretched out his hand with mockers.(A)
For they are kindled[a] like an oven; their heart burns within them;
    all night their anger smolders;
    in the morning it blazes like a flaming fire.

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Footnotes

  1. 7.6 Gk Syr: Heb brought near

32 At the last it bites like a serpent
    and stings like an adder.

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