And Absalom commanded his young men, saying, Now watch when Amnon’s heart is glad with wine, and when I say to you, Strike Amnon, you shall cause him to die. Do not fear. Is it not that I commanded you? Be strong, and become sons of strength.
Behold, they are as stubble; the fire burns them; they shall not save their soul from the flame’s hand; there is no coal to warm them, not a flame to sit before it.
Therefore, as the tongue of fire devours the stubble, and the dry grass falls in the flame; their root shall be like rottenness, and their blossoms shall go up like dust, because they have rejected the Law of Jehovah of Hosts; and despised the Word of the Holy One of Israel.
For wickedness burns like a fire; it shall devour the briers and thorns; and it kindles the thickets of the forest; and they shall roll upward, like the rising up of smoke.
In their heat, I will set their feasts, and I will make them drunk so that they exult and sleep a never-ending sleep and never awaken, a statement of Jehovah.
And I will make her rulers drunk, also her wise ones, her governors, and her prefects, and her mighty men; and they shall sleep a never-ending sleep, and not awaken, a statement of the King whose name is Jehovah of Hosts.
Their best is like a thorn; the upright one more than a hedge of thorns. The day of your watchers, your visitation is coming; now shall be their confusion.
For, behold, the day is coming, burning like a fire pot; and all the arrogant and every doer of wickedness will be chaff. And the coming day will set them ablaze, says Jehovah of Hosts, which will not leave root or branches to them.
And Abigail came to Nabal. And, behold, to him was a feast in his house, like the feast of the king. And Nabal’s heart felt good within him, and he was drunk until excess. And she did not report to him a word, more or less, until the light of the morning.