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12 “Come,” they say, “let us[a] get wine;
    let us fill ourselves with strong drink.
And tomorrow will be like today,
    great beyond measure.”

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  1. 56.12 Q ms Syr Vg Tg: MT me

They think in their heart, “We shall not be moved;
    throughout all generations we shall not meet adversity.”(A)

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19 And I will say to my soul, Soul, you have ample goods laid up for many years; relax, eat, drink, be merry.’(A) 20 But God said to him, ‘You fool! This very night your life is being demanded of you. And the things you have prepared, whose will they be?’(B)

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

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27 Do not boast about tomorrow,
    for you do not know what a day may bring.(A)

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32 If I fought with wild animals at Ephesus with a merely human perspective, what would I have gained by it? If the dead are not raised,

“Let us eat and drink,
    for tomorrow we die.”(A)

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11     prostitution.

The Idolatry of Israel

Wine and new wine
    take away the understanding.(A)

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35 “They struck me,” you will say,[a] “but I was not hurt;
    they beat me, but I did not feel it.
When shall I awake?
    I will seek another drink.”(A)

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  1. 23.35 Gk Syr Vg Tg: Heb lacks you will say

For a bishop,[a] as God’s steward, must be blameless; he must not be arrogant or quick-tempered or addicted to wine or violent or greedy for gain,(A)

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  1. 1.7 Or an overseer

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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45 But if that slave says to himself, ‘My master is delayed in coming,’ and begins to beat the other slaves, men and women, and to eat and drink and get drunk, 46 the master of that slave will come on a day when he does not expect him and at an hour that he does not know and will cut him in pieces[a] and put him with the unfaithful.

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  1. 12.46 Or cut him off

you who put far away the evil day
    and bring near a reign of violence?(A)

Woe to those who lie on beds of ivory
    and lounge on their couches
and eat lambs from the flock
    and calves from the stall,(B)
who sing idle songs to the sound of the harp
    and like David improvise on instruments of music,(C)
who drink wine from bowls
    and anoint themselves with the finest oils
    but are not grieved over the ruin of Joseph!(D)

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A Plot against Jeremiah

18 Then they said, “Come, let us make plots against Jeremiah, for instruction shall not perish from the priest, nor counsel from the wise, nor the word from the prophet. Come, let us bring charges against him,[a] and let us not heed any of his words.”(A)

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  1. 18.18 Heb strike him with the tongue

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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13 but instead there was joy and festivity,
    killing oxen and slaughtering sheep,
    eating meat and drinking wine.
“Let us eat and drink,
    for tomorrow we die.”(A)
14 The Lord of hosts has revealed himself in my ears:
“Surely this iniquity will not be forgiven you until you die,”
    says the Lord God of hosts.(B)

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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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49 and begins to beat his fellow slaves and eats and drinks with drunkards, 50 the master of that slave will come on a day when he does not expect him and at an hour that he does not know. 51 He will cut him in pieces[a] and put him with the hypocrites, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.(A)

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  1. 24.51 Or cut him off

It is not for kings, O Lemuel,
    it is not for kings to drink wine
    or for rulers to desire[a] strong drink,(A)
lest they drink and forget what has been decreed
    and pervert the rights of all the afflicted.

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  1. 31.4 Cn: Heb where