DRUNKENNESS

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• Genesis 9:21

  He drank of the wine and got drunk. He was uncovered within his tent.

• Genesis 19:33

  They made their father drink wine that night: and the firstborn went in, and lay with her father. He didn’t know when she lay down, nor when she arose.

• Deuteronomy 21:20

  They shall tell the elders of his city, “This our son is stubborn and rebellious. He will not obey our voice. He is a glutton and a drunkard.”

• Deuteronomy 21:21

  All the men of his city shall stone him to death with stones. So you shall remove the evil from among you. All Israel shall hear, and fear.

• Deuteronomy 29:19

  and it happen, when he hears the words of this curse, that he bless himself in his heart, saying, “I shall have peace, though I walk in the stubbornness of my heart, to destroy the moist with the dry.”

• Deuteronomy 29:20

  Yahweh will not pardon him, but then Yahweh’s anger and his jealousy will smoke against that man, and all the curse that is written in this book will fall on him, and Yahweh will blot out his name from under the sky.

• Deuteronomy 29:21

  Yahweh will set him apart for evil out of all the tribes of Israel, according to all the curses of the covenant that is written in this book of the law.

• 1 Samuel 1:12

  As she continued praying before Yahweh, Eli saw her mouth.

• 1 Samuel 1:13

  Now Hannah spoke in her heart. Only her lips moved, but her voice was not heard. Therefore Eli thought she was drunk.

• 1 Samuel 1:14

  Eli said to her, “How long will you be drunk? Get rid of your wine!”

• 1 Samuel 1:15

  Hannah answered, “No, my lord, I am a woman of a sorrowful spirit. I have not been drinking wine or strong drink, but I poured out my soul before Yahweh.

• 1 Samuel 1:16

  Don’t consider your servant a wicked woman; for I have been speaking out of the abundance of my complaint and my provocation.”

• 1 Samuel 25:36

  Abigail came to Nabal; and behold, he held a feast in his house, like the feast of a king. Nabal’s heart was merry within him, for he was very drunk. Therefore she told him nothing, until the morning light.

• 2 Samuel 11:13

  When David had called him, he ate and drink before him; and he made him drunk. At evening, he went out to lie on his bed with the servants of his lord, but didn’t go down to his house.

• 1 Kings 16:9

  His servant Zimri, captain of half his chariots, conspired against him. Now he was in Tirzah, drinking himself drunk in the house of Arza, who was over the household in Tirzah;

• 1 Kings 20:16

  They went out at noon. But Ben Hadad was drinking himself drunk in the pavilions, he and the kings, the thirty-two kings who helped him.

• Esther 1:10

  On the seventh day, when the heart of the king was merry with wine, he commanded Mehuman, Biztha, Harbona, Bigtha, and Abagtha, Zethar, and Carcass, the seven eunuchs who served in the presence of Ahasuerus the king,

• Esther 1:11

  to bring Vashti the queen before the king with the royal crown, to show the people and the princes her beauty; for she was beautiful.

• Psalms 69:12

  Those who sit in the gate talk about me. I am the song of the drunkards.

• Psalms 73:10

  Therefore their people return to them, and they drink up waters of abundance.

• Psalms 75:8

  For in Yahweh’s hand there is a cup, full of foaming wine mixed with spices. He pours it out. Indeed the wicked of the earth drink and drink it to its very dregs.

• Proverbs 20:1

  Wine is a mocker, and beer is a brawler. Whoever is led astray by them is not wise.

• Proverbs 21:17

  He who loves pleasure shall be a poor man. He who loves wine and oil shall not be rich.

• Proverbs 23:20

  Don’t be among ones drinking too much wine, or those who gorge themselves on meat:

• Proverbs 23:21

  for the drunkard and the glutton shall become poor; and drowsiness clothes them in rags.

• Proverbs 23:29

  Who has woe? Who has sorrow? Who has strife? Who has complaints? Who has needless bruises? Who has bloodshot eyes?

• Proverbs 23:30

  Those who stay long at the wine; those who go to seek out mixed wine.

• Proverbs 23:31

  Don’t look at the wine when it is red, when it sparkles in the cup, when it goes down smoothly.

• Proverbs 23:32

  In the end, it bites like a snake, and poisons like a viper.

• Proverbs 23:33

  Your eyes will see strange things, and your mind will imagine confusing things.

• Proverbs 23:34

  Yes, you will be as he who lies down in the middle of the sea, or as he who lies on top of the rigging:

• Proverbs 23:35

  “They hit me, and I was not hurt! They beat me, and I don’t feel it! When will I wake up? I can do it again. I can find another.”

• Proverbs 31:4

  It is not for kings, Lemuel; it is not for kings to drink wine; nor for princes to say, ‘Where is strong drink?’

• Proverbs 31:5

  lest they drink, and forget the law, and pervert the justice due to anyone who is afflicted.

• Proverbs 31:6

  Give strong drink to him who is ready to perish; and wine to the bitter in soul:

• Proverbs 31:7

  Let him drink, and forget his poverty, and remember his misery no more.

• Isaiah 5:11

  Woe to those who rise up early in the morning, that they may follow strong drink; who stay late into the night, until wine inflames them!

• Isaiah 5:12

  The harp, lyre, tambourine, and flute, with wine, are at their feasts; but they don’t respect the work of Yahweh, neither have they considered the operation of his hands.

• Isaiah 5:22

  Woe to those who are mighty to drink wine, and champions at mixing strong drink;

• Isaiah 19:14

  Yahweh has mixed a spirit of perverseness in the middle of her; and they have caused Egypt to go astray in all of its works, like a drunken man staggers in his vomit.

• Isaiah 24:9

  They will not drink wine with a song. Strong drink will be bitter to those who drink it.

• Isaiah 24:11

  There is a crying in the streets because of the wine. All joy is darkened. The mirth of the land is gone.

• Isaiah 28:1

  Woe to the crown of pride of the drunkards of Ephraim, and to the fading flower of his glorious beauty, which is on the head of the fertile valley of those who are overcome with wine!

• Isaiah 28:3

  The crown of pride of the drunkards of Ephraim will be trodden under foot.

• Isaiah 28:7

  They also reel with wine, and stagger with strong drink. The priest and the prophet reel with strong drink. They are swallowed up by wine. They stagger with strong drink. They err in vision. They stumble in judgment.

• Isaiah 28:8

  For all tables are completely full of filthy vomit and filthiness.

• Isaiah 51:17

  Awake, awake! Stand up, Jerusalem, you who have drunk from Yahweh’s hand the cup of his wrath. You have drunken the bowl of the cup of staggering, and drained it.

• Isaiah 51:21

  Therefore now hear this, you afflicted, and drunken, but not with wine:

• Isaiah 51:22

  Thus says your Lord Yahweh, your God who pleads the cause of his people, “Behold, I have taken out of your hand the cup of staggering, even the bowl of the cup of my wrath. You will not drink it any more:

• Isaiah 51:23

  and I will put it into the hand of those who afflict you, who have said to your soul, ‘Bow down, that we may walk over you;’ and you have laid your back as the ground, like a street to those who walk over.”

• Isaiah 56:12

  “Come,” say they, “I will get wine, and we will fill ourselves with strong drink; and tomorrow will be as today, great beyond measure.”

• Isaiah 63:6

  I trod down the peoples in my anger, and made them drunk in my wrath, and I poured out their lifeblood on the earth.”

• Jeremiah 25:15

  For Yahweh, the God of Israel, says to me: “take this cup of the wine of wrath at my hand, and cause all the nations, to whom I send you, to drink it.

• Jeremiah 25:16

  They shall drink, and reel back and forth, and be mad, because of the sword that I will send among them.”

• Jeremiah 25:27

  “You shall tell them, ‘Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel says: “Drink, and be drunk, vomit, fall, and rise no more, because of the sword which I will send among you.”’

• Jeremiah 25:28

  It shall be, if they refuse to take the cup at your hand to drink, then you shall tell them, ‘Yahweh of Armies says: “You shall surely drink.

• Jeremiah 51:7

  Babylon has been a golden cup in Yahweh’s hand, who made all the earth drunk. The nations have drunk of her wine; therefore the nations have gone mad.

• Jeremiah 51:8

  Babylon has suddenly fallen and been destroyed! Wail for her! Take balm for her pain. Perhaps she may be healed.

• Jeremiah 51:9

  “We would have healed Babylon, but she is not healed. Forsake her, and let us each go into his own country; for her judgment reaches to heaven, and is lifted up even to the skies.

• Lamentations 3:15

  He has filled me with bitterness. He has sated me with wormwood.

• Ezekiel 23:31

  You have walked in the way of your sister; therefore will I give her cup into your hand.’

• Ezekiel 23:32

  “Thus says the Lord Yahweh: ‘You will drink of your sister’s cup, which is deep and large. You will be ridiculed and held in derision. It contains much.

• Ezekiel 23:33

  You will be filled with drunkenness and sorrow, with the cup of astonishment and desolation, with the cup of your sister Samaria.

• Ezekiel 23:34

  You will even drink it and drain it out. You will gnaw the broken pieces of it, and will tear your breasts; for I have spoken it,’ says the Lord Yahweh.

• Daniel 5:1

  Belshazzar the king made a great feast to a thousand of his lords, and drank wine before the thousand.

• Daniel 5:2

  Belshazzar, while he tasted the wine, commanded to bring the golden and silver vessels which Nebuchadnezzar his father had taken out of the temple which was in Jerusalem; that the king and his lords, his wives and his concubines, might drink from them.

• Daniel 5:3

  Then they brought the golden vessels that were taken out of the temple of God’s house which was at Jerusalem; and the king and his lords, his wives and his concubines, drank from them.

• Daniel 5:4

  They drank wine, and praised the gods of gold, and of silver, of brass, of iron, of wood, and of stone.

• Daniel 5:5

  In the same hour, the fingers of a man’s hand came out and wrote near the lamp stand on the plaster of the wall of the king’s palace. The king saw the part of the hand that wrote.

• Daniel 5:6

  Then the king’s face was changed in him, and his thoughts troubled him; and the joints of his thighs were loosened, and his knees struck one against another.

• Hosea 4:11

  Prostitution, wine, and new wine take away understanding.

• Hosea 7:5

  On the day of our king, the princes made themselves sick with the heat of wine. He joined his hand with mockers.

• Hosea 7:14

  They haven’t cried to me with their heart, but they howl on their beds. They assemble themselves for grain and new wine. They turn away from me.

• Joel 1:5

  Wake up, you drunkards, and weep! Wail, all you drinkers of wine, because of the sweet wine; for it is cut off from your mouth.

• Joel 3:3

  and have cast lots for my people, and have given a boy for a prostitute, and sold a girl for wine, that they may drink.

• Amos 2:8

  and they lay themselves down beside every altar on clothes taken in pledge; and in the house of their God they drink the wine of those who have been fined.

• Amos 2:12

  “But you gave the Nazirites wine to drink, and commanded the prophets, saying, ‘Don’t prophesy!’

• Amos 6:1

  Woe to those who are at ease in Zion, and to those who are secure on the mountain of Samaria, the notable men of the chief of the nations, to whom the house of Israel come!

• Amos 6:6

  who drink wine in bowls, and anoint themselves with the best oils; but they are not grieved for the affliction of Joseph.

• Micah 2:11

  If a man walking in a spirit of falsehood lies: “I will prophesy to you of wine and of strong drink”; he would be the prophet of this people.

• Nahum 1:10

  For entangled like thorns, and drunken as with their drink, they are consumed utterly like dry stubble.

• Habakkuk 2:15

  “Woe to him who gives his neighbor drink, pouring your inflaming wine until they are drunk, so that you may gaze at their naked bodies!

• Habakkuk 2:16

  You are filled with shame, and not glory. You will also drink, and be exposed! The cup of Yahweh’s right hand will come around to you, and disgrace will cover your glory.

• Habakkuk 2:17

  For the violence done to Lebanon will overwhelm you, and the destruction of the animals, which made them afraid; because of men’s blood, and for the violence done to the land, to every city and to those who dwell in them.

• Matthew 11:19

  The Son of Man came eating and drinking, and they say, ‘Behold, a gluttonous man and a drunkard, a friend of tax collectors and sinners!’ But wisdom is justified by her children.”

• Matthew 24:49

  and begins to beat his fellow servants, and eat and drink with the drunkards,

• Luke 12:45

  But if that servant says in his heart, ‘My lord delays his coming,’ and begins to beat the menservants and the maidservants, and to eat and drink, and to be drunken,

• Luke 21:34

  “So be careful, or your hearts will be loaded down with carousing, drunkenness, and cares of this life, and that day will come on you suddenly.

• Acts 2:13

  Others, mocking, said, “They are filled with new wine.”

• Acts 2:14

  But Peter, standing up with the eleven, lifted up his voice, and spoke out to them, “You men of Judea, and all you who dwell at Jerusalem, let this be known to you, and listen to my words.

• Acts 2:15

  For these aren’t drunken, as you suppose, seeing it is only the third hour of the day.

• Romans 13:13

  Let us walk properly, as in the day; not in reveling and drunkenness, not in sexual promiscuity and lustful acts, and not in strife and jealousy.

• Galatians 5:19

  Now the deeds of the flesh are obvious, which are: adultery, sexual immorality, uncleanness, lustfulness,

• Galatians 5:20

  idolatry, sorcery, hatred, strife, jealousies, outbursts of anger, rivalries, divisions, heresies,

• Galatians 5:21

  envy, murders, drunkenness, orgies, and things like these; of which I forewarn you, even as I also forewarned you, that those who practice such things will not inherit God’s Kingdom.

• Ephesians 5:18

  Don’t be drunken with wine, in which is dissipation, but be filled with the Spirit,

• 1 Thessalonians 5:7

  For those who sleep, sleep in the night; and those who are drunk are drunk in the night.

• 1 Thessalonians 5:8

  But let us, since we belong to the day, be sober, putting on the breastplate of faith and love, and, for a helmet, the hope of salvation.