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Wine was served in goblets of gold, each one different from the other, and the royal wine was abundant, in keeping with the king’s liberality.
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On the seventh day, when King Xerxes was in high spirits from wine, he commanded the seven eunuchs who served him—Mehuman, Biztha, Harbona, Bigtha, Abagtha, Zethar and Karkas—
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As they were drinking wine, the king again asked Esther, “Now what is your petition? It will be given you. And what is your request? Even up to half the kingdom, it will be granted.”
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and as they were drinking wine on the second day, the king again asked, “Queen Esther, what is your petition? It will be given you. What is your request? Even up to half the kingdom, it will be granted.”
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One day when Job’s sons and daughters were feasting and drinking wine at the oldest brother’s house,
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While he was still speaking, yet another messenger came and said, “Your sons and daughters were feasting and drinking wine at the oldest brother’s house,
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inside I am like bottled-up wine, like new wineskins ready to burst.
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You have shown your people desperate times; you have given us wine that makes us stagger.
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In the hand of the LORD is a cup full of foaming wine mixed with spices; he pours it out, and all the wicked of the earth drink it down to its very dregs.
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Then the Lord awoke as from sleep, as a warrior wakes from the stupor of wine.
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He makes grass grow for the cattle, and plants for people to cultivate— bringing forth food from the earth:
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wine that gladdens human hearts, oil to make their faces shine, and bread that sustains their hearts.
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Honor the LORD with your wealth, with the firstfruits of all your crops;
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then your barns will be filled to overflowing, and your vats will brim over with new wine.
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They eat the bread of wickedness and drink the wine of violence.
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She has prepared her meat and mixed her wine; she has also set her table.
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Wine is a mocker and beer a brawler; whoever is led astray by them is not wise.
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Whoever loves pleasure will become poor; whoever loves wine and olive oil will never be rich.
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Who has woe? Who has sorrow? Who has strife? Who has complaints? Who has needless bruises? Who has bloodshot eyes?
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Those who linger over wine, who go to sample bowls of mixed wine.
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Do not gaze at wine when it is red, when it sparkles in the cup, when it goes down smoothly!
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In the end it bites like a snake and poisons like a viper.
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Your eyes will see strange sights, and your mind will imagine confusing things.
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You will be like one sleeping on the high seas, lying on top of the rigging.
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“They hit me,” you will say, “but I’m not hurt! They beat me, but I don’t feel it! When will I wake up so I can find another drink?”
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Do not join those who drink too much wine or gorge themselves on meat,
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for drunkards and gluttons become poor, and drowsiness clothes them in rags.
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It is not for kings, Lemuel— it is not for kings to drink wine, not for rulers to crave beer,
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lest they drink and forget what has been decreed, and deprive all the oppressed of their rights.
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Let beer be for those who are perishing, wine for those who are in anguish!
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Let them drink and forget their poverty and remember their misery no more.
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I tried cheering myself with wine, and embracing folly—my mind still guiding me with wisdom. I wanted to see what was good for people to do under the heavens during the few days of their lives.
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Go, eat your food with gladness, and drink your wine with a joyful heart, for God has already approved what you do.
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A feast is made for laughter, wine makes life merry, and money is the answer for everything.
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Let him kiss me with the kisses of his mouth— for your love is more delightful than wine.
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Take me away with you—let us hurry! Let the king bring me into his chambers. We rejoice and delight in you ; we will praise your love more than wine. How right they are to adore you!
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Let him lead me to the banquet hall, and let his banner over me be love.
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How delightful is your love, my sister, my bride! How much more pleasing is your love than wine, and the fragrance of your perfume more than any spice!
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I have come into my garden, my sister, my bride; I have gathered my myrrh with my spice. I have eaten my honeycomb and my honey; I have drunk my wine and my milk. Eat, friends, and drink; drink your fill of love.
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and your mouth like the best wine. May the wine go straight to my beloved, flowing gently over lips and teeth.
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I would lead you and bring you to my mother’s house— she who has taught me. I would give you spiced wine to drink, the nectar of my pomegranates.
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Your silver has become dross, your choice wine is diluted with water.
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Woe 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.
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They have harps and lyres at their banquets, pipes and timbrels and wine, but they have no regard for the deeds of the LORD, no respect for the work of his hands.
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Woe to those who are heroes at drinking wine and champions at mixing drinks,
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Joy and gladness are taken away from the orchards; no one sings or shouts in the vineyards; no one treads out wine at the presses, for I have put an end to the shouting.
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But see, there is joy and revelry, slaughtering of cattle and killing of sheep, eating of meat and drinking of wine! “Let us eat and drink,” you say, “for tomorrow we die!”
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The new wine dries up and the vine withers; all the merrymakers groan.
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The joyful timbrels are stilled, the noise of the revelers has stopped, the joyful harp is silent.
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No longer do they drink wine with a song; the beer is bitter to its drinkers.
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The ruined city lies desolate; the entrance to every house is barred.
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In the streets they cry out for wine; all joy turns to gloom, all joyful sounds are banished from the earth.
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On this mountain the LORD Almighty will prepare a feast of rich food for all peoples, a banquet of aged wine— the best of meats and the finest of wines.
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And these also stagger from wine and reel from beer: Priests and prophets stagger from beer and are befuddled with wine; they reel from beer, they stagger when seeing visions, they stumble when rendering decisions.
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Be stunned and amazed, blind yourselves and be sightless; be drunk, but not from wine, stagger, but not from beer.
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until I come and take you to a land like your own—a land of grain and new wine, a land of bread and vineyards.
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Therefore hear this, you afflicted one, made drunk, but not with wine.
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“Come, all you who are thirsty, come to the waters; and you who have no money, come, buy and eat! Come, buy wine and milk without money and without cost.
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“Come,” each one cries, “let me get wine! Let us drink our fill of beer! And tomorrow will be like today, or even far better.”
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The LORD has sworn by his right hand and by his mighty arm: “Never again will I give your grain as food for your enemies, and never again will foreigners drink the new wine for which you have toiled;
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but those who harvest it will eat it and praise the LORD, and those who gather the grapes will drink it in the courts of my sanctuary.”
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This is what the LORD says: “As when juice is still found in a cluster of grapes and people say, ‘Don’t destroy it, there is still a blessing in it,’ so will I do in behalf of my servants; I will not destroy them all.
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“Say to them: ‘This is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says: Every wineskin should be filled with wine.’ And if they say to you, ‘Don’t we know that every wineskin should be filled with wine?’
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This is what the LORD, the God of Israel, said to me: “Take from my hand this cup filled with the wine of my wrath and make all the nations to whom I send you drink it.
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They will come and shout for joy on the heights of Zion; they will rejoice in the bounty of the LORD— the grain, the new wine and the olive oil, the young of the flocks and herds. They will be like a well-watered garden, and they will sorrow no more.
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“Go to the Rekabite family and invite them to come to one of the side rooms of the house of the LORD and give them wine to drink.”
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So I went to get Jaazaniah son of Jeremiah, the son of Habazziniah, and his brothers and all his sons—the whole family of the Rekabites.
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I brought them into the house of the LORD, into the room of the sons of Hanan son of Igdaliah the man of God. It was next to the room of the officials, which was over that of Maaseiah son of Shallum the doorkeeper.
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Then I set bowls full of wine and some cups before the Rekabites and said to them, “Drink some wine.”
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But they replied, “We do not drink wine, because our forefather Jehonadab son of Rekab gave us this command: ‘Neither you nor your descendants must ever drink wine.
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Also you must never build houses, sow seed or plant vineyards; you must never have any of these things, but must always live in tents. Then you will live a long time in the land where you are nomads.’
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We have obeyed everything our forefather Jehonadab son of Rekab commanded us. Neither we nor our wives nor our sons and daughters have ever drunk wine
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or built houses to live in or had vineyards, fields or crops.
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We have lived in tents and have fully obeyed everything our forefather Jehonadab commanded us.
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But when Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon invaded this land, we said, ‘Come, we must go to Jerusalem to escape the Babylonian and Aramean armies.’ So we have remained in Jerusalem.”
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Then the word of the LORD came to Jeremiah, saying:
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“This is what the LORD Almighty, the God of Israel, says: Go and tell the people of Judah and those living in Jerusalem, ‘Will you not learn a lesson and obey my words?’ declares the LORD.
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‘Jehonadab son of Rekab ordered his descendants not to drink wine and this command has been kept. To this day they do not drink wine, because they obey their forefather’s command. But I have spoken to you again and again, yet you have not obeyed me.