<p class="poetry">But those who harvest the grain<n id="1" /> will eat it,p> <p class="poetry">and will praise the <sc>Lordsc>.p> <p class="poetry">Those who pick the grapes will drink the wine<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">in the courts of my holy sanctuary.&#8221;p>

When they have drunk it, they will stagger to and fro<n id="1" /> and act insane. For I will send wars sweeping through them.&#8221;<n id="2" />p>

&#8220;Son of man, eat your bread with trembling,<n id="1" /> and drink your water with anxious shaking.

You will eat fat until you are full, and drink blood until you are drunk,<n id="1" /> at my slaughter<n id="2" /> which I have made for you.

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

<p class="poetry">Wake up, you drunkards,<n id="1" /> and weep!p> <p class="poetry">Wail, all you wine drinkers,<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">because the sweet wine<n id="3" /> has been taken away<n id="4" /> from you.<n id="5" />p>

<p class="poetry">and they cast lots for my people.p> <p class="poetry">They traded<n id="1" /> a boy for a prostitute;p> <p class="poetry">they sold a little girl for wine so they could drink.<n id="2" />p>

<p class="poetry">They stretch out on clothing seized as collateral;p> <p class="poetry">they do so right<n id="1" /> beside every altar!p> <p class="poetry">They drink wine bought with the fines they have levied;p> <p class="poetry">they do so right in the temple<n id="2" /> of their God!<n id="3" />p>

<p class="poetry">They drink wine from sacrificial bowls,<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">and pour the very best oils on themselves.<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">Yet they are not concerned over<n id="3" /> the ruin<n id="4" /> of Joseph.p>

I will say to a young woman, &#8216;Please lower your jar so I may drink.&#8217; May the one you have chosen for your servant Isaac reply, &#8216;Drink, and I&#8217;ll give your camels water too.&#8217;<n id="1" /> In this way I will know that you have been faithful to my master.&#8221;<n id="2" />p>

he must separate<n id="1" /> himself from wine and strong drink, he must drink neither vinegar<n id="2" /> made from wine nor vinegar made from strong drink, nor may he drink any juice<n id="3" /> of grapes, nor eat fresh grapes or raisins.<n id="4" />

You went back and ate and drank in this place, even though he said to you, &#8220;Do not eat or drink there.&#8221;<n id="1" /> Therefore<n id="2" /> your corpse will not be buried in your ancestral tomb.&#8217;&#8221;<n id="3" />p>

and said, &#8220;God forbid that I should do this!<n id="1" /> Should I drink the blood of these men who risked their lives?&#8221;<n id="2" /> Because they risked their lives to bring it to him, he refused to drink it. Such were the exploits of the three elite warriors.<n id="3" />p>

<p class="sosspeaker"><b><i>The Lover to His Beloved:i>b>p> <p class="poetry">I have entered my garden, O my sister, my bride;p> <p class="poetry">I have gathered my myrrh with my balsam spice.p> <p class="poetry">I have eaten my honeycomb and my honey;p> <p class="poetry">I have drunk my wine and my milk!p> <p class="sosspeaker"><b><i>The Poet to the Couple:i>b><n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">Eat, friends, and drink!<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">Drink freely, O lovers!p>

But they answered, &#8220;We do not drink wine because our ancestor Jonadab son of Rechab commanded us not to. He told us, &#8216;You and your children must never drink wine.

<p class="bodytext">After the camels had finished drinking, the man took out a gold nose ring weighing a beka<n id="1" /> and two gold bracelets weighing ten shekels<n id="2" /> and gave them to her.<n id="3" />

Then she will reply to me, &#8220;Drink, and I&#8217;ll draw water for your camels too.&#8221; May that woman be the one whom the <sc>Lordsc> has chosen for my master&#8217;s son.&#8217;p>

<p class="bodytext">Then Jacob gave Esau some bread and lentil stew; Esau ate and drank, then got up and went out.<n id="1" /> So Esau despised his birthright.<n id="2" />p>

Isaac<n id="1" /> said, &#8220;Bring some of the wild game for me to eat, my son.<n id="2" /> Then I will bless you.&#8221;<n id="3" /> So Jacob<n id="4" /> brought it to him, and he ate it. He also brought him wine, and Isaac<n id="5" /> drank.

He gave them portions of the food set before him,<n id="1" /> but the portion for Benjamin was five times greater than the portions for any of the others. They drank with Joseph until they all became drunk.<n id="2" />p>