It is not for kings, O Lemuel, It is not for kings to drink wine, Nor for princes intoxicating drink;

利慕伊勒啊，君王喝酒，君王喝酒不相宜；王子说浓酒在那里也不相宜；

利慕伊勒啊，君王不宜，君王不宜喝酒，王子寻找烈酒也不相宜；

利慕伊勒啊，君王不宜，君王不宜喝酒，王子寻找烈酒也不相宜；

利慕伊勒啊，君王不可喝酒，不可喝酒，首领不宜喝烈酒，

利慕伊勒啊！君王不可喝酒；君王千万不可喝酒；掌权的不可贪饮烈酒。

利慕伊勒啊，君王不要这样！君王不可喝酒，掌权者不可贪烈酒；

利慕伊勒啊，君王喝酒，君王喝酒不相宜；王子說濃酒在那裏也不相宜；

利慕伊勒啊，君王不宜，君王不宜喝酒，王子尋找烈酒也不相宜；

利慕伊勒啊，君王不宜，君王不宜喝酒，王子尋找烈酒也不相宜；

利慕伊勒啊，君王不可喝酒，不可喝酒，首領不宜喝烈酒，

利慕伊勒啊！君王不可喝酒；君王千萬不可喝酒；掌權的不可貪飲烈酒。

利慕伊勒啊，君王不可喝酒；君王千萬不可；就是人君渴想着濃酒、也不可喝；

利慕伊勒啊，君王不要這樣！君王不可喝酒，掌權者不可貪烈酒；

利慕伊勒歟、王飲清酒、牧伯問醇醪之所在、皆非所宜、

利母益乎、清酒醇醪、王毋過飲、

利慕伊勒歟、君王飲清酒、掌權者飲醇醪、醇醪或作醉人之物下同皆非所宜、

It is not for kings, Lemuel— it is not for kings to drink wine, not for rulers to crave beer,

Lemuel, it isn’t good for kings to drink wine. It isn’t good for rulers to long for beer.

It is not for kings, O Lemuel, it is not for kings to drink wine, or for rulers to take strong drink,

It is not for kings, O Lemuel, to guzzle wine. Rulers should not crave alcohol.

It is not for kings, Lemuel, it is not for kings to drink wine or for rulers to desire beer.

It is not for kings, Lemuel, It is not for kings to drink wine, Or for rulers to desire intoxicating drink,

It is not for kings, O Lemuel, it is not for kings to drink wine; Nor for princes to say, Where is strong drink?

It is not for kings, Lemuel, it is not for kings to drink wine or for rulers to desire beer.

[ It is] not for kings, O Lemuel,[ it is] not for kings to drink wine; nor for princes strong drink:

It is not for kings, O Lemuel, it is not for kings to drink wine, or for rulers to crave strong drink,

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

Blessed are you, O land, when your king is the son of nobles, And your princes feast at the proper time— For strength and not for drunkenness!

Wine is a mocker, Strong drink is a brawler, And whoever is led astray by it is not wise.

Woe to men mighty at drinking wine, Woe to men valiant for mixing intoxicating drink,

But they also have erred through wine, And through intoxicating drink are out of the way; The priest and the prophet have erred through intoxicating drink, They are swallowed up by wine, They are out of the way through intoxicating drink; They err in vision, they stumble in judgment.For all tables are full of vomit and filth; No place is clean.

“ Do not drink wine or intoxicating drink, you, nor your sons with you, when you go into the tabernacle of meeting, lest you die. It shall be a statute forever throughout your generations,that you may distinguish between holy and unholy, and between unclean and clean,

“ Indeed, because he transgresses by wine, He is a proud man, And he does not stay at home. Because he enlarges his desire as hell, And he is like death, and cannot be satisfied, He gathers to himself all nations And heaps up for himself all peoples.

“ Harlotry, wine, and new wine enslave the heart.My people ask counsel from their wooden idols, And their staff informs them. For the spirit of harlotry has caused them to stray, And they have played the harlot against their God.

While he tasted the wine, Belshazzar gave the command to bring the gold and silver vessels which his father Nebuchadnezzar had taken from the temple which had been in Jerusalem, that the king and his lords, his wives, and his concubines might drink from them.Then they brought the gold vessels that had been taken from the temple of the house of God which had been in Jerusalem; and the king and his lords, his wives, and his concubines drank from them.They drank wine, and praised the gods of gold and silver, bronze and iron, wood and stone.

And it happened when Ben-Hadad heard this message, as he and the kings were drinking at the command post, that he said to his servants,“ Get ready.” And they got ready to attack the city.

The couriers went out, hastened by the king’s command; and the decree was proclaimed in Shushan the citadel. So the king and Haman sat down to drink, but the city of Shushan was perplexed.

They make a king glad with their wickedness, And princes with their lies.“ They are all adulterers. Like an oven heated by a baker— He ceases stirring the fire after kneading the dough, Until it is leavened.In the day of our king Princes have made him sick, inflamed with wine; He stretched out his hand with scoffers.

So they went out at noon. Meanwhile Ben-Hadad and the thirty-two kings helping him were getting drunk at the command post.The young leaders of the provinces went out first. And Ben-Hadad sent out a patrol, and they told him, saying,“ Men are coming out of Samaria!”So he said,“ If they have come out for peace, take them alive; and if they have come out for war, take them alive.”Then these young leaders of the provinces went out of the city with the army which followed them.And each one killed his man; so the Syrians fled, and Israel pursued them; and Ben-Hadad the king of Syria escaped on a horse with the cavalry.

Then an opportune day came when Herod on his birthday gave a feast for his nobles, the high officers, and the chief men of Galilee.And when Herodias’ daughter herself came in and danced, and pleased Herod and those who sat with him, the king said to the girl,“ Ask me whatever you want, and I will give it to you.”He also swore to her,“ Whatever you ask me, I will give you, up to half my kingdom.”So she went out and said to her mother,“ What shall I ask?” And she said,“ The head of John the Baptist!”Immediately she came in with haste to the king and asked, saying,“ I want you to give me at once the head of John the Baptist on a platter.”And the king was exceedingly sorry; yet, because of the oaths and because of those who sat with him, he did not want to refuse her.Immediately the king sent an executioner and commanded his head to be brought. And he went and beheaded him in prison,brought his head on a platter, and gave it to the girl; and the girl gave it to her mother.