“They struck me, but I feel no pain! They beat me, but I did not know it! When can I wake up to search for another drink?”
“Come, let me get the wine, let us imbibe the strong drink, and tomorrow will be like today, only far better!”
O LORD, do not Your eyes look for truth? You struck them, but they felt no pain. You finished them off, but they refused
As a dog returns to its vomit, so a fool repeats his folly.
Of them the proverbs are true: “A dog returns to its vomit,” and, “A sow that is washed goes back to her wallowing in th
If I fought wild beasts in Ephesus for human motives, what did I gain? If the dead are not raised, “Let us eat and drink
Though you grind a fool like grain with mortar and a pestle, yet his folly will not depart from him.
I have surely heard Ephraim’s moaning: ‘You disciplined me severely, like an untrained calf. Restore me, that I may retu
But look, there is joy and gladness, butchering of cattle and slaughtering of sheep, eating of meat and drinking of wine
because when such a person hears the words of this oath, he invokes a blessing on himself, saying, ‘I will have peace, e
Having lost all sense of shame, they have given themselves over to sensuality for the practice of every kind of impurity