Job 21:11-13
11They send out their alittle boys like a flock,and their children dance.
12They sing to bthe tambourine and cthe lyre
and rejoice to the sound of dthe pipe.
13They espend their days in prosperity,
and in fpeace they go down to gSheol.
Jeremiah 51:39
39 hWhile they are inflamed iI will prepare them a feastand jmake them drunk, that they may become merry,
kthen sleep a perpetual sleep
and not wake, declares the Lord.
Jeremiah 51:57
57 lI will make drunk her officials and her wise men,mher governors, her commanders, and her warriors;
they shall sleep a perpetual sleep and not wake,
declares nthe King, whose name is the Lord of hosts.
Daniel 5:1
The Handwriting on the Wall
1 oKing Belshazzar pmade a great feast for a thousand of his qlords and drank wine in front of the thousand.Daniel 5:5
5 rImmediately sthe fingers of a human hand appeared and wrote on the plaster of the wall of the king’s palace, opposite the lampstand. And the king saw tthe hand as it wrote.Daniel 5:30
30 uThat very night vBelshazzar the wChaldean king was killed.Nahum 1:10
10For they are xlike entangled thorns,like drunkards as they drink;
ythey are consumed like stubble fully dried.
Luke 21:34-36
Watch Yourselves
34“But watch yourselves zlest aayour hearts be weighed down with dissipation and drunkenness and abcares of this life, and acthat day come upon you suddenly adlike a trap. 35For it will come upon all who dwell on the face of the whole earth. 36But aestay awake at all times, afpraying that you may aghave strength to escape all these things that are going to take place, and ahto stand before the Son of Man.”
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