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Hosea 4:11

Bible in Basic English 1965

Loose ways and new wine take away wisdom.

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Wine makes men foolish, and strong drink makes men come to blows; and whoever comes into error through these is not wise.

It is not for kings, O Lemuel, it is not for kings to take wine, or for rulers to say, Where is strong drink?

He who takes another man's wife is without all sense: he who does it is the cause of destruction to his soul.

The wise are troubled by the ways of the cruel, and the giving of money is the destruction of the heart.

And further, these are uncertain through wine, and have gone out of the right way through strong drink: the priest and the prophet are uncertain through strong drink, they are overcome by wine, they have gone out of the way through strong drink; their vision is false, they go wrong in their decisions.

And corded instruments and wind-instruments and wine are in their feasts: but they give no thought to the work of the Lord, and they are not interested in what his hands are doing.

And I have seen ways without sense in the prophets of Samaria; they became prophets of the Baal, causing my people Israel to go wrong.

My people get knowledge from their tree, and their rod gives them news; for a false spirit is the cause of their wandering, and they have been false to their God.

Their works will not let them come back to their God, for a false spirit is in them and they have no knowledge of the Lord.

And Ephraim is like a foolish dove, without wisdom; they send out their cry to Egypt, they go to Assyria.

Take no wine, or strong drink, you or your sons with you, when you go into the Tent of meeting, that it may not be the cause of death to you; this is an order for ever through all your generations.

But give attention to yourselves, for fear that your hearts become over-full of the pleasures of food and wine, and the cares of this life, and that day may come on you suddenly, and take you as in a net:

And Abigail went back to Nabal; and he was feasting in his house like a king; and Nabal's heart was full of joy, for he had taken much wine; so she said nothing to him till dawn came.




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