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Isaiah 5:22

Contemporary English Version 1995

And you are great at drinking and mixing drinks. But you are in for trouble.

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You are in for trouble! You get up early to start drinking, and you keep it up late into the night.

You're doomed! You get your friends drunk, just to see them naked.

Priests and prophets stumble because they are drunk. Their minds are too confused to receive God's messages or give honest decisions.

You say to each other, “Let's drink till we're drunk! Tomorrow we'll do it again. We'll really enjoy ourselves.”

Don't accept bribes. Judges are blinded and justice is twisted by bribes.

It isn't smart to get drunk! Drinking makes a fool of you and leads to fights.

Who is always in trouble? Who argues and fights? Who has cuts and bruises? Whose eyes are red?

Kings and leaders should not get drunk or even want to drink.

But instead, you celebrated by feasting on beef and lamb and by drinking wine, because you said, “Let's eat and drink today! Tomorrow we may die.”

They no longer sing as they drink their wine, and it tastes sour.

At noon, King Ahab and his Israelite army marched out of Samaria, with the young soldiers in front. King Benhadad of Syria and the 32 kings with him were drunk when the scouts he had sent out ran up to his tent, shouting, “We just now saw soldiers marching out of Samaria!”

Drinking makes you forget your responsibilities, and you mistreat the poor.




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