你必像躺在海中，或像卧在桅杆上。

你必像躺在深海中，或卧在桅杆顶上，

你必像躺在深海中，或卧在桅杆顶上，

你好像躺在怒海中，又像卧在桅杆顶上。

你必好像躺在海中，又好像躺在桅杆顶上。

你就像是躺在海中，也像躺在桅杆顶端，说：

你必像躺在海中，或像臥在桅杆上。

你必像躺在深海中，或臥在桅杆頂上，

你必像躺在深海中，或臥在桅杆頂上，

你好像躺在怒海中，又像臥在桅杆頂上。

你必好像躺在海中，又好像躺在桅杆頂上。

你必好像躺在海中心，好似臥在桅桿頂上；

你就像是躺在海中，也像躺在桅杆頂端，說：

如寢於海中、如臥於桅頂、

其危也、若偃息海中、高枕桅上。

必使爾如寢於海中、臥於桅頂、

You will be like one sleeping on the high seas, lying on top of the rigging.

You will feel like someone sleeping on the ocean. You will think you are lying among the ropes in a boat.

You will be like one who lies down in the midst of the sea, like one who lies on the top of a mast.

You will stagger like a sailor tossed at sea, clinging to a swaying mast.

You’ll be like someone sleeping out at sea or lying down on the top of a ship’s mast.

And you will be like one who lies down in the middle of the sea, Or like one who lies down on the top of a mast.

Yes, you will be like one who lies down in the midst of the sea, Or like one who lies at the top of the mast, saying:

Yea, thou shalt be as he that lieth down in the midst of the sea, Or as he that lieth upon the top of a mast.

You’ll be like someone sleeping out at sea or lying down on the top of a ship’s mast.

Yea, thou shalt be as he that lieth down in the midst of the sea, or as he that lieth upon the top of a mast.

And you will be like one who lies down in the midst of the sea, and like one who lies down on the top of the rigging.

Yes, you will be as he who lies down in the middle of the sea, or as he who lies on top of the rigging:

Zimri, one of his officials, who had command of half his chariots, plotted against him. Elah was in Tirzah at the time, getting drunk in the home of Arza, the palace administrator at Tirzah. (niv)

for you know very well that the day of the Lord will come like a thief in the night.While people are saying,“ Peace and safety,” destruction will come on them suddenly, as labor pains on a pregnant woman, and they will not escape.But you, brothers and sisters, are not in darkness so that this day should surprise you like a thief.You are all children of the light and children of the day. We do not belong to the night or to the darkness.So then, let us not be like others, who are asleep, but let us be awake and sober.For those who sleep, sleep at night, and those who get drunk, get drunk at night. (niv)

“ Be careful, or your hearts will be weighed down with carousing, drunkenness and the anxieties of life, and that day will close on you suddenly like a trap. (niv)

Wake up, you drunkards, and weep! Wail, all you drinkers of wine; wail because of the new wine, for it has been snatched from your lips. (niv)

People were eating, drinking, marrying and being given in marriage up to the day Noah entered the ark. Then the flood came and destroyed them all.“ It was the same in the days of Lot. People were eating and drinking, buying and selling, planting and building.But the day Lot left Sodom, fire and sulfur rained down from heaven and destroyed them all. (niv)

He led David down, and there they were, scattered over the countryside, eating, drinking and reveling because of the great amount of plunder they had taken from the land of the Philistines and from Judah.David fought them from dusk until the evening of the next day, and none of them got away, except four hundred young men who rode off on camels and fled. (niv)

For in the days before the flood, people were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, up to the day Noah entered the ark; (niv)

Absalom ordered his men,“ Listen! When Amnon is in high spirits from drinking wine and I say to you,‘ Strike Amnon down,’ then kill him. Don’t be afraid. Haven’t I given you this order? Be strong and brave.” (niv)

By the blast of your nostrils the waters piled up. The surging waters stood up like a wall; the deep waters congealed in the heart of the sea. (niv)

May you be blessed for your good judgment and for keeping me from bloodshed this day and from avenging myself with my own hands.Otherwise, as surely as the Lord, the God of Israel, lives, who has kept me from harming you, if you had not come quickly to meet me, not one male belonging to Nabal would have been left alive by daybreak.”Then David accepted from her hand what she had brought him and said,“ Go home in peace. I have heard your words and granted your request.”When Abigail went to Nabal, he was in the house holding a banquet like that of a king. He was in high spirits and very drunk. So she told him nothing at all until daybreak.Then in the morning, when Nabal was sober, his wife told him all these things, and his heart failed him and he became like a stone.About ten days later, the Lord struck Nabal and he died. (niv)

They set out at noon while Ben-Hadad and the 32 kings allied with him were in their tents getting drunk.The junior officers under the provincial commanders went out first. Now Ben-Hadad had dispatched scouts, who reported,“ Men are advancing from Samaria.”He said,“ If they have come out for peace, take them alive; if they have come out for war, take them alive.”The junior officers under the provincial commanders marched out of the city with the army behind themand each one struck down his opponent. At that, the Arameans fled, with the Israelites in pursuit. But Ben-Hadad king of Aram escaped on horseback with some of his horsemen.The king of Israel advanced and overpowered the horses and chariots and inflicted heavy losses on the Arameans.Afterward, the prophet came to the king of Israel and said,“ Strengthen your position and see what must be done, because next spring the king of Aram will attack you again.” (niv)