Feasts are made for laughter, and wine makes life merry, but money is the answer for everything.

May your mouth be like the best wine, flowing smoothly for my beloved, gliding gently over our lips as we sleep together.

I would lead you and bring you to my mother’s house, the one who taught me. I would give you spiced wine to drink, the nectar of my pomegranates.

Those who get up early to drink beer are as good as dead, those who keep drinking long after dark until they are intoxicated with wine.

They howl in the streets because of what happened to the wine; all joy turns to sorrow; celebrations disappear from the earth.

You will be shocked and amazed! You are totally blind! They are drunk, but not because of wine; they stagger, but not because of beer.

Each one says, ‘Come on, I’ll get some wine! Let’s guzzle some beer! Tomorrow will be just like today! We’ll have everything we want!’

Damascus was your trade partner because of the abundance of your goods and of all your wealth: wine from Helbon, white wool from Zahar,

No priest may drink wine when he enters the inner court.

So the warden removed the delicacies and the wine from their diet and gave them a diet of vegetables instead.

At the celebration of their king, his princes become inflamed with wine; they conspire with evildoers.

People will reside again in his shade; they will plant and harvest grain in abundance. They will blossom like a vine, and his fame will be like the wine from Lebanon.

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

and they cast lots for my people. They traded a boy for a prostitute; they sold a little girl for wine so they could drink.

They stretch out on clothing seized as collateral; they do so right beside every altar! They drink wine bought with the fines they have levied; they do so right in the temple of their God!

“But you made the Nazirites drink wine; you commanded the prophets, ‘Do not prophesy!’

They drink wine from sacrificial bowls, and pour the very best oils on themselves. Yet they are not concerned over the ruin of Joseph.

he must separate himself from wine and strong drink, he must drink neither vinegar made from wine nor vinegar made from strong drink, nor may he drink any juice of grapes, nor eat fresh grapes or raisins.

She should not drink anything that the grapevine produces. She must not drink wine or beer, and she must not eat any food that will make her ritually unclean. She should obey everything I commanded her to do.”

Even these men stagger because of wine, they stumble around because of beer – priests and prophets stagger because of beer, they are confused because of wine, they stumble around because of beer; they stagger while seeing prophetic visions, they totter while making legal decisions.