If a man came with a false spirit of deceit, saying, I will be a prophet to you of wine and strong drink: he would be the sort of prophet for this people.
You will put in seed, but you will not get in the grain; you will be crushing olives, but your bodies will not be rubbed with the oil; and you will get in the grapes, but you will have no wine.
And you will be overcome with wine, you will become feeble; you will be looking for a safe place from those who are fighting against you.
And that we would take the first of our rough meal, and our lifted offerings, and the fruit of every sort of tree, and wine and oil, to the priests, to the rooms of the house of our God; and the tenth of the produce of our land to the Levites; for they, the Levites, take a tenth in all the towns of our ploughed land.
For the children of Israel and the children of Levi are to take the lifted offering of the grain and wine and oil into the rooms where the vessels of the holy place are, together with the priests and the door-keepers and the makers of music: and we will not give up caring for the house of our God.
O Lord, let your ear take note of the prayer of your servant, and of the prayers of your servants, who take delight in worshipping your name: give help, O Lord, to your servant this day, and let him have mercy in the eyes of this man. (Now I was the king's wine-servant.)
Then all Judah came with the tenth part of the grain and wine and oil and put it into the store-houses.
In those days, I saw in Judah some who were crushing grapes on the Sabbath, and getting in grain and putting it on asses; as well as wine and grapes and figs and all sorts of goods which they took into Jerusalem on the Sabbath day: and I gave witness against them on the day when they were marketing food.
Had made ready for him a great room, where at one time they kept the meal offerings, the perfume, and the vessels and the tenths of the grain and wine and oil which were given by order to the Levites and the music-makers and the door-keepers, and the lifted offerings for the priests.
And it came about in the month Nisan, in the twentieth year of Artaxerxes the king, when wine was before him, that I took up the wine and gave it to the king. Now I had never before been sad when the king was present.
Give back to them this very day their fields, their vine-gardens, their olive-gardens, and their houses, as well as a hundredth part of the money and the grain and the wine and the oil which you have taken from them.
But earlier rulers who were before me made the people responsible for their upkeep, and took from them bread and wine at the rate of forty shekels of silver; and even their servants were lords over the people: but I did not do so, because of the fear of God.
Now the food made ready for one day was one ox and six fat sheep, as well as fowls; and once in ten days a store of all sorts of wine: but all the same, I did not take the food to which the ruler had a right, because the people were crushed under a hard yoke.
And for the drink offering: give half a hin of wine, for an offering made by fire for a sweet smell to the Lord.
And for the drink offering, you are to give with the burned offering or other offering, the fourth part of a hin of wine for every lamb.
And for the drink offering give a third part of a hin of wine, for a sweet smell to the Lord.
All the best of the oil and the wine and the grain, the first-fruits of them which they give to the Lord, to you have I given them.
And this lifted offering is to be put to your credit as if it was grain from the grain-floor and wine from the vines.
And their drink offerings are to be half a hin of wine for an ox, and the third part of a hin for a male sheep, and the fourth part of a hin for a lamb: this is the burned offering for every month through all the months of the year.
And for its drink offering take the fourth part of a hin for one lamb: in the holy place let the wine be drained out for a drink offering for the Lord.
Waving them for a wave offering before the Lord; this is holy for the priest, together with the waved breast and the leg which is lifted up; after that, the man may take wine.
He is to keep himself from wine and strong drink, and take no mixed wine or strong drink or any drink made from grapes, or any grapes, green or dry.
For as you have been drinking on my holy mountain, so will all the nations go on drinking without end; they will go on drinking and the wine will go down their throats, and they will be as if they had never been.
Wine makes men foolish, and strong drink makes men come to blows; and whoever comes into error through these is not wise.
The lover of pleasure will be a poor man: the lover of wine and oil will not get wealth.
Do not be among those who give themselves to wine-drinking, or among those who make themselves full with meat:
Those who are seated late over the wine: those who go looking for mixed wine.
Keep your eyes from looking on the wine when it is red, when its colour is bright in the cup, when it goes smoothly down:
They have overcome me, you will say, and I have no pain; they gave me blows without my feeling them: when will I be awake from my wine? I will go after it again.
So your store-houses will be full of grain, and your vessels overflowing with new wine.
It is not for kings, O Lemuel, it is not for kings to take wine, or for rulers to say, Where is strong drink?
Give strong drink to him who is near to destruction, and wine to him whose soul is bitter:
The bread of evil-doing is their food, the wine of violent acts their drink.
She has put her fat beasts to death; her wine is mixed, her table is ready.
Come, take of my bread, and of my wine which is mixed.
And wine to make glad the heart of man, and oil to make his face shining, and bread giving strength to his heart.
They are turned here and there, rolling like a man who is full of wine; and all their wisdom comes to nothing.
For I have become like a wine-skin black with smoke; but I still keep the memory of your rules.
The Lord is my heritage and the wine of my cup; you are the supporter of my right.
Lord, you have put joy in my heart, more than they have when their grain and their wine are increased.
You have made the people see hard times; you have given us the wine of shaking for our drink.
They gave me poison for my food; and bitter wine for my drink.
For in the hand of the Lord is a cup, and the wine is red; it is well mixed, overflowing from his hand: he will make all the sinners of the earth take of it, even to the last drop.
Then was the Lord like one awaking from sleep, and like a strong man crying out because of wine.
To him will be given of the wine of God's wrath which is ready unmixed in the cup of his wrath and he will have cruel pain, burning with fire before the holy angels and before the Lamb:
And the angel sent his blade into the earth, and the vine of the earth was cut, and he put it into the great wine-crusher of the wrath of God.
And a second angel came after, saying, Destruction has come to Babylon the great, which gave to all the nations the wine of the wrath of her evil ways.
And the great town was cut into three parts, and the towns of the nations came to destruction: and Babylon the great came into mind before God, to be given the cup of the wine of his wrath.
With whom the kings of the earth made themselves unclean, and those who are on the earth were full of the wine of her evil desires.
And I saw the woman overcome as with the wine of the blood of the saints, and the blood of those put to death because of Jesus. And when I saw her, I was overcome with a great wonder.
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