Job 21:12

“Come,” say they, “I will get wine, and we will fill ourselves with strong drink; and tomorrow will be as today, great beyond measure.”

On that night, the king couldn’t sleep. He commanded the book of records of the chronicles to be brought, and they were read to the king.

In the second year of the reign of Nebuchadnezzar, Nebuchadnezzar dreamed dreams; and his spirit was troubled, and his sleep went from him.

If I fought with animals at Ephesus for human purposes, what does it profit me? If the dead are not raised, then “let’s eat and drink, for tomorrow we die.”

Only fear Yahweh, and serve him in truth with all your heart; for consider what great things he has done for you.

Let them praise his name in the dance! Let them sing praises to him with tambourine and harp!

Yahweh will save me. Therefore we will sing my songs with stringed instruments all the days of our life in Yahweh’s house.

Miriam the prophetess, the sister of Aaron, took a tambourine in her hand; and all the women went out after her with tambourines and with dances.

David danced before Yahweh with all his might; and David was clothed in a linen ephod.

because they turned away from following him, and wouldn’t pay attention to any of his ways,

Because they don’t respect the works of Yahweh, nor the operation of his hands, he will break them down and not build them up.

You have turned my mourning into dancing for me. You have removed my sackcloth, and clothed me with gladness,

You hold my eyelids open. I am so troubled that I can’t speak.

His brother’s name was Jubal, who was the father of all who handle the harp and pipe.

The ox knows his owner, and the donkey his master’s crib; but Israel doesn’t know. My people don’t consider.”

The harp, lyre, tambourine, and flute, with wine, are at their feasts; but they don’t respect the work of Yahweh, neither have they considered the operation of his hands.

I ate no pleasant bread. No meat or wine came into my mouth. I didn’t anoint myself at all, until three whole weeks were fulfilled.

Prostitution, wine, and new wine take away understanding.

Therefore, holy brothers, partakers of a heavenly calling, consider the Apostle and High Priest of our confession: Jesus,

Adah gave birth to Jabal, who was the father of those who dwell in tents and have livestock.

Jacob gave Esau bread and lentil stew. He ate and drank, rose up, and went his way. So Esau despised his birthright.

Why did you flee secretly, and deceive me, and didn’t tell me, that I might have sent you away with mirth and with songs, with tambourine and with harp;

Jacob answered Laban, “Because I was afraid, for I said, ‘Lest you should take your daughters from me by force.’

Then Gideon took ten men of his servants, and did as Yahweh had spoken to him. Because he feared his father’s household and the men of the city, he could not do it by day, but he did it by night.

When their hearts were merry, they said, “Call for Samson, that he may entertain us.” They called for Samson out of the prison; and he performed before them. They set him between the pillars;

When he had brought him down, behold, they were spread around over all the ground, eating, drinking, and dancing, because of all the great plunder that they had taken out of the land of the Philistines, and out of the land of Judah.

Mephibosheth the son of Saul came down to meet the king; and he had neither groomed his feet, nor trimmed his beard, nor washed his clothes, from the day the king departed until the day he came home in peace.

Judah and Israel were numerous as the sand which is by the sea in multitude, eating and drinking and making merry.

When Ahab heard those words, he tore his clothes, and put sackcloth on his flesh, and fasted, and lay in sackcloth, and went softly.

“But he has made me a byword of the people. They spit in my face.

Therefore my harp has turned to mourning, and my pipe into the voice of those who weep.

He seals up the hand of every man, that all men whom he has made may know it.

His ways are prosperous at all times. He is arrogant, and your laws are far from his sight. As for all his adversaries, he sneers at them.

Give thanks to Yahweh with the lyre. Sing praises to him with the harp of ten strings.

All your garments smell like myrrh, aloes, and cassia. Out of ivory palaces stringed instruments have made you glad.

All mankind shall be afraid. They shall declare the work of God, and shall wisely ponder what he has done.

I will remember Yah’s deeds; for I will remember your wonders of old.

with the ten-stringed lute, with the harp, and with the melody of the lyre.

Whoever is wise will pay attention to these things. They will consider the loving kindnesses of Yahweh.

On the willows in that land, we hung up our harps.

I will sing a new song to you, God. On a ten-stringed lyre, I will sing praises to you.

Praise him with tambourine and dancing! Praise him with stringed instruments and flute!

Don’t be among ones drinking too much wine, or those who gorge themselves on meat:

“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.”

I also gathered silver and gold for myself, and the treasure of kings and of the provinces. I got myself male and female singers, and the delights of the sons of men: musical instruments, and that of all sorts.

Consider the work of God, for who can make that straight, which he has made crooked?

who say, “Let him make haste, let him hasten his work, that we may see it; let the counsel of the Holy One of Israel draw near and come, that we may know it!”

Woe to those who are mighty to drink wine, and champions at mixing strong drink;

and behold, joy and gladness, killing cattle and killing sheep, eating meat and drinking wine: “Let’s eat and drink, for tomorrow we will die.”

The mirth of tambourines ceases. The sound of those who rejoice ends. The joy of the harp ceases.

Let favor be shown to the wicked, yet he will not learn righteousness. In the land of uprightness he will deal wrongfully, and will not see Yahweh’s majesty.

They also reel with wine, and stagger with strong drink. The priest and the prophet reel with strong drink. They are swallowed up by wine. They stagger with strong drink. They err in vision. They stumble in judgment.

Woe to those who go down to Egypt for help, and rely on horses, and trust in chariots because they are many, and in horsemen because they are very strong, but they don’t look to the Holy One of Israel, and they don’t seek Yahweh!

‘Why have we fasted,’ they say, ‘and you don’t see? Why have we afflicted our soul, and you don’t notice?’ “Behold, in the day of your fast you find pleasure, and oppress all your laborers.

Yes, the stork in the sky knows her appointed times. The turtledove, the swallow, and the crane observe the time of their coming; but my people don’t know Yahweh’s law.

I will cause the noise of your songs to cease. The sound of your harps won’t be heard any more.

but have lifted up yourself against the Lord of heaven; and they have brought the vessels of his house before you, and you and your lords, your wives, and your concubines, have drunk wine from them. You have praised the gods of silver and gold, of bronze, iron, wood, and stone, which don’t see, or hear, or know; and you have not glorified the God in whose hand your breath is, and whose are all your ways.

Then the king went to his palace, and passed the night fasting. No musical instruments were brought before him; and his sleep fled from him.

They don’t consider in their hearts that I remember all their wickedness. Now their own deeds have engulfed them. They are before my face.

Who lie on beds of ivory, and stretch themselves on their couches, and eat the lambs out of the flock, and the calves out of the middle of the stall;

who strum on the strings of a harp; who invent for themselves instruments of music, like David;

Yahweh, the Lord, is my strength. He makes my feet like deer’s feet, and enables me to go in high places. For the music director, on my stringed instruments.

Now, please consider from this day and backward, before a stone was laid on a stone in Yahweh’s temple.

I will tell my soul, “Soul, you have many goods laid up for many years. Take your ease, eat, drink, and be merry.” ’

Not many days after, the younger son gathered all of this together and traveled into a far country. There he wasted his property with riotous living.

“Now there was a certain rich man, and he was clothed in purple and fine linen, living in luxury every day.

Yet he didn’t leave himself without witness, in that he did good and gave you rains from the sky and fruitful seasons, filling our hearts with food and gladness.”

Consider what I say, and may the Lord give you understanding in all things.

You have lived in luxury on the earth, and taken your pleasure. You have nourished your hearts as in a day of slaughter.

These are hidden rocky reefs in your love feasts when they feast with you, shepherds who without fear feed themselves; clouds without water, carried along by winds; autumn trees without fruit, twice dead, plucked up by the roots;

The voice of harpists, minstrels, flute players, and trumpeters will be heard no more at all in you. No craftsman, of whatever craft, will be found any more at all in you. The sound of a mill will be heard no more at all in you.