suffering wrong as payment for wrongdoing. Thinking daytime revelry a delight, they are stains and defilements as they revel in their deceits while carousing with you.
let us conduct ourselves properly as in the day, not in orgies and drunkenness, not in promiscuity and licentiousness, not in rivalry and jealousy.
They are surprised that you do not plunge into the same swamp of profligacy, and they vilify you;
Their end is destruction. Their God is their stomach; their glory is in their “shame.” Their minds are occupied with earthly things.
that he might present to himself the church in splendor, without spot or wrinkle or any such thing, that she might be holy and without blemish.
Pay her back as she has paid others. Pay her back double for her deeds. Into her cup pour double what she poured.
Abandoning the straight road, they have gone astray, following the road of Balaam, the son of Bosor, who loved payment for wrongdoing,
Alexander the coppersmith did me a great deal of harm; the Lord will repay him according to his deeds.
Woe to the wicked! It will go ill with them, with the work of their hands they will be repaid.
You are beautiful in every way, my friend, there is no flaw in you!
You have lived on earth in luxury and pleasure; you have fattened your hearts for the day of slaughter.