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Words of Lemuel a king, a declaration that his mother taught him:
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`What, my son? and what, son of my womb? And what, son of my vows?
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Give not to women thy strength, And thy ways to wiping away of kings.
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Not for kings, O Lemuel, Not for kings, to drink wine, And for princes a desire of strong drink.
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Lest he drink, and forget the decree, And change the judgment of any of the sons of affliction.
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Give strong drink to the perishing, And wine to the bitter in soul,
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He drinketh, and forgetteth his poverty, And his misery he remembereth not again.
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Open thy mouth for the dumb, For the right of all sons of change.