My mind reels and my heart races. I longed for evening to come, but now I am terrified of the dark.

我心慌张，惊恐威吓我。我所羡慕的黄昏，变为我的战兢。

我心慌乱，惊恐威吓我。我所渴望的黄昏，反成为我的恐惧。

我心慌乱，惊恐威吓我。我所渴望的黄昏，反成为我的恐惧。

我心慌意乱，惊惧不堪，我期盼的黄昏却令我恐惧。

我的心迷糊，惊恐威吓着我；我所爱慕的黄昏，竟使我战兢。

我的心慌乱，恐怖惊扰着我，我所爱慕的黄昏竟使我恐惧。

我心慌張，驚恐威嚇我。我所羨慕的黃昏，變為我的戰兢。

我心慌亂，驚恐威嚇我。我所渴望的黃昏，反成為我的恐懼。

我心慌亂，驚恐威嚇我。我所渴望的黃昏，反成為我的恐懼。

我心慌意亂，驚懼不堪，我期盼的黃昏卻令我恐懼。

我的心迷糊，驚恐威嚇著我；我所愛慕的黃昏，竟使我戰兢。

我的心迷迷糊糊，戰慄發抖使我驚惶；我所愛慕的黃昏竟使我恐怖戰兢。

我的心慌亂，恐怖驚擾著我，我所愛慕的黃昏竟使我恐懼。

我心震驚、威烈使我恐怖、黃昏之望、變為戰慄、

我心昏迷、戰栗特甚、深宵宴樂、忽變駭懼、

我心昏迷、極為悚惶、我宴樂之夜、變為驚駭之夜、

My heart falters, fear makes me tremble; the twilight I longed for has become a horror to me.

My heart grows weak. Fear makes me tremble. I longed for evening to come. But it brought me horror instead of rest.

My heart staggers; horror has appalled me; the twilight I longed for has been turned for me into trembling.

My heart staggers; horror terrifies me. He has turned my last glimmer of hope into sheer terror.

My mind reels, horror overwhelms me; The twilight I longed for has been turned into trembling for me.

My heart wavered, fearfulness frightened me; The night for which I longed He turned into fear for me.

My heart fluttereth, horror hath affrighted me; the twilight that I desired hath been turned into trembling unto me.

My heart staggers; horror terrifies me. He has turned my last glimmer of hope into sheer terror.

My heart panted, fearfulness affrighted me: the night of my pleasure hath he turned into fear unto me.

My heart palpitates, I shake in fear; the twilight I desired has brought me terror.

My heart flutters. Horror has frightened me. The twilight that I desired has been turned into trembling for me.

What sorrow for those who get up early in the morning looking for a drink of alcohol and spend long evenings drinking wine to make themselves flaming drunk.They furnish wine and lovely music at their grand parties— lyre and harp, tambourine and flute— but they never think about the Lord or notice what he is doing.So my people will go into exile far away because they do not know me. Those who are great and honored will starve, and the common people will die of thirst.The grave is licking its lips in anticipation, opening its mouth wide. The great and the lowly and all the drunken mob will be swallowed up.

Absalom told his men,“ Wait until Amnon gets drunk; then at my signal, kill him! Don’t be afraid. I’m the one who has given the command. Take courage and do it!”So at Absalom’s signal they murdered Amnon. Then the other sons of the king jumped on their mules and fled.

And while they lie inflamed with all their wine, I will prepare a different kind of feast for them. I will make them drink until they fall asleep, and they will never wake up again,” says the Lord.

That very night Belshazzar, the Babylonian king, was killed.

Many years later King Belshazzar gave a great feast for 1,000 of his nobles, and he drank wine with them.

Esther replied,“ This wicked Haman is our adversary and our enemy.” Haman grew pale with fright before the king and queen.Then the king jumped to his feet in a rage and went out into the palace garden. Haman, however, stayed behind to plead for his life with Queen Esther, for he knew that the king intended to kill him.In despair he fell on the couch where Queen Esther was reclining, just as the king was returning from the palace garden. The king exclaimed,“ Will he even assault the queen right here in the palace, before my very eyes?” And as soon as the king spoke, his attendants covered Haman’s face, signaling his doom.Then Harbona, one of the king’s eunuchs, said,“ Haman has set up a sharpened pole that stands seventy five feet tall in his own courtyard. He intended to use it to impale Mordecai, the man who saved the king from assassination.”“ Then impale Haman on it!” the king ordered.So they impaled Haman on the pole he had set up for Mordecai, and the king’s anger subsided.

Then Haman added,“ And that’s not all! Queen Esther invited only me and the king himself to the banquet she prepared for us. And she has invited me to dine with her and the king again tomorrow!”

“ Watch out! Don’t let your hearts be dulled by carousing and drunkenness, and by the worries of this life. Don’t let that day catch you unaware,like a trap. For that day will come upon everyone living on the earth.Keep alert at all times. And pray that you might be strong enough to escape these coming horrors and stand before the Son of Man.”

I will make her officials and wise men drunk, along with her captains, officers, and warriors. They will fall asleep and never wake up again!” says the King, whose name is the Lord of Heaven’s Armies.

Suddenly, they saw the fingers of a human hand writing on the plaster wall of the king’s palace, near the lampstand. The king himself saw the hand as it wrote,

They let their children frisk about like lambs. Their little ones skip and dance.They sing with tambourine and harp. They celebrate to the sound of the flute.They spend their days in prosperity, then go down to the grave in peace.

In the morning you will say,‘ If only it were night!’ And in the evening you will say,‘ If only it were morning!’ For you will be terrified by the awful horrors you see around you.

When Abigail arrived home, she found that Nabal was throwing a big party and was celebrating like a king. He was very drunk, so she didn’t tell him anything about her meeting with David until dawn the next day.In the morning when Nabal was sober, his wife told him what had happened. As a result he had a stroke, and he lay paralyzed on his bed like a stone.About ten days later, the Lord struck him, and he died.

His enemies, tangled like thornbushes and staggering like drunks, will be burned up like dry stubble in a field.