⁷ For those who sleep, sleep in the night, and those who are drunken are drunken in the night.

¹³ receiving the wages of unrighteousness; people who count it pleasure to revel in the day-time, spots and blemishes, reveling in their deceit while they feast with you;

¹⁵ For these aren't drunken, as you suppose, seeing it is only the third hour of the day{about 9:00 AM}.

³⁴ Wake up righteously, and don't sin, for some have no knowledge of God. I say this to your shame.

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.

²⁹ Who has woe? Who has sorrow? Who has strife? Who has complaints? Who has needless bruises? Who has bloodshot eyes?

³⁰ Those who stay long at the wine; Those who go to seek out mixed wine.

³¹ Don't look at the wine when it is red, When it sparkles in the cup, When it goes down smoothly:

³² In the end, it bites like a snake, And poisons like a viper.

³³ Your eyes will see strange things, And your mind will imagine confusing things.

³⁴ Yes, you will be as he who lies down in the midst of the sea, Or as he who lies on top of the rigging:

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."

¹⁴ Therefore he says, "Awake, you who sleep, and arise from the dead, and Christ will shine on you."

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.

³⁵ For it will come like a snare on all those who dwell on the surface of all the earth.

⁴ They drank wine, and praised the gods of gold, and of silver, of brass, of iron, of wood, and of stone.

⁵ In the same hour came forth the fingers of a man's hand, and wrote over against the lampstand on the plaster of the wall of the king's palace: and the king saw the part of the hand that wrote.

⁴ My heart flutters, horror has frightened me; the twilight that I desired has been turned into trembling to me.

⁵ They prepare the table, they set the watch, they eat, they drink: rise up, you princes, anoint the shield.

¹⁵ In a dream, in a vision of the night, When deep sleep falls on men, In slumbering on the bed;

¹³ In thoughts from the visions of the night, When deep sleep falls on men,

³⁶ Abigail came to Nabal; and, behold, he held a feast in his house, like the feast of a king; and Nabal's heart was merry within him, for he was very drunken: therefore she told him nothing, less or more, until the morning light.

³⁷ It happened in the morning, when the wine was gone out of Nabal, that his wife told him these things, and his heart died within him, and he became as a stone.