suffering wrong as the wage for their wrongdoing. They count it pleasure to revel in the daytime. They are blots and blemishes, reveling in their deceptions, while they feast with you.
Let us walk properly as in the daytime, not in orgies and drunkenness, not in sexual immorality and sensuality, not in quarreling and jealousy.
With respect to this they are surprised when you do not join them in the same flood of debauchery, and they malign you;
Their end is destruction, their god is their belly, and they glory in their shame, with minds set on earthly things.
so that he might present the church to himself in splendor, without spot or wrinkle or any such thing, that she might be holy and without blemish.
Pay her back as she herself has paid back others, and repay her double for her deeds; mix a double portion for her in the cup she mixed.
Forsaking the right way, they have gone astray. They have followed the way of Balaam, the son of Beor, who loved gain from wrongdoing,
Alexander the coppersmith did me great harm; the Lord will repay him according to his deeds.
Woe to the wicked! It shall be ill with him, for what his hands have dealt out shall be done to him.
You are altogether beautiful, my love; there is no flaw in you.
You have lived on the earth in luxury and in self-indulgence. You have fattened your hearts in a day of slaughter.