16 Woe to you, O land whose king is a youth, and whose princes feast in the morning.
Ecclesiastes 10:16
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Isaiah 5:10–12
10 For ten acres of vineyard will yield but a bath of wine, and a homer of seed only an ephah of grain.” 11 Woe to those who rise early in the morning in pursuit of strong drink, who linger into the evening, to be inflamed by wine. 12 At their feasts are the lyre and ha…
Isaiah 5:21–23
21 Woe to those who are wise in their own eyes and clever in their own sight. 22 Woe to those who are heroes in drinking wine and champions in mixing beer, 23 who acquit the guilty for a bribe and deprive the innocent of justice.
Proverbs 31:3–5
3 Do not spend your strength on women or your vigor on those who ruin kings. 4 It is not for kings, O Lemuel, it is not for kings to drink wine, or for rulers to crave strong drink, 5 lest they drink and forget what is decreed, depriving all the oppressed of justice.
Hosea 7:4–6
4 They are all adulterers, like an oven heated by a baker who needs not stoke the fire from the kneading to the rising of the dough. 5 The princes are inflamed with wine on the day of our king; so he joins hands with those who mock him. 6 For they prepare their heart…
Isaiah 28:1–2
1 Woe to the majestic crown of Ephraim’s drunkards, to the fading flower of his glorious splendor, set on the summit above the fertile valley, the pride of those overcome by wine. 2 Behold, the Lord has one who is strong and mighty. Like a hailstorm or destructive…
Ecclesiastes 10:4–6
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Hosea 10:14–15
14 the roar of battle will rise against your people, so that all your fortresses will be demolished as Shalman devastated Beth-arbel in the day of battle, when mothers were dashed to pieces along with their children. 15 Thus it will be done to you, O Bethel, because…
Baruch 3:15–17
15 Who has found out her place? Who has come into her treasuries? (WEB) 16 Where are the princes of the heathen, and those who ruled the beasts that are on the earth, (WEB) 17 those who had their pastime with the fowls of the air, and those who hoarded up silver and gold, in which… (WEB)
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