The splendid crown of Ephraim’s drunkards will be trampled underfoot.

Those who sit at the city gate gossip about me; drunkards mock me in their songs. ¹ 

thieves, the greedy, drunkards, the verbally abusive, ¹  and swindlers will not inherit the kingdom of God.

and he begins to beat his fellow slaves and to eat and drink with drunkards,

Wake up, you drunkards, ¹  and weep! Wail, all you wine drinkers, ²  because the sweet wine ³  has been taken away ⁴  from you. ⁵ 

Surely they will be totally consumed ¹  like ²  entangled thorn bushes, ³  like the drink of drunkards, ⁴  like very ⁵  dry stubble.

The splendid crown of Ephraim’s drunkards is doomed, ¹  the withering flower, its beautiful splendor, ²  situated ³  at the head of a rich valley, the crown of those overcome with wine. ⁴ 

They grope about in darkness ¹  without light; he makes them stagger ²  like drunkards.

Do not spend time ¹  among drunkards, ²  among those who eat too much ³  meat,

The sound of a carefree crowd accompanied her, ¹  including all kinds of men; ²  even Sabeans ³  were brought from the desert. The sisters ⁴  put bracelets on their wrists and beautiful crowns on their heads.

They swayed ¹  and staggered like a drunk, and all their skill proved ineffective. ² 

because drunkards and gluttons become impoverished, and drowsiness ¹  clothes them with rags. ² 

You too will act like drunkards; ¹  you will go into hiding; ²  you too will seek refuge from the enemy.

Like a thorn ¹  that goes into the hand of a drunkard, so is a proverb in the mouth of a fool. ² 

Who is the Lord ¹  trying to teach? To whom is he explaining a message? ²  Those just weaned from milk! Those just taken from their mother’s breast! ³ 

The Lord who rules over all will guard them, and they will prevail and overcome with sling stones. Then they will drink, and will become noisy like drunkards, ¹  full like the sacrificial basin or like the corners of the altar. ²