Proverbs 31:1-9

Advice from King Lemuel's Mother

Proverbs 31:1-9
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THE WORDS OF KING LEMUEL: The prophecie which his mother taught him.
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What my sonne! and what ye sonne of my wombe! and what, O sonne of my desires!
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Giue not thy strength vnto women, nor thy wayes, which is to destroy Kings.
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It is not for Kings, O Lemuel, it is not for Kings to drink wine nor for princes strog drinke,
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Lest he drinke and forget the decree, and change the iudgement of all the children of affliction.
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Giue ye strong drinke vnto him that is readie to perish, and wine vnto them that haue griefe of heart.
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Let him drinke, that he may forget his pouertie, and remember his miserie no more.
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Open thy mouth for the domme in the cause of all the children of destruction.
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Open thy mouth: iudge righteously, and iudge the afflicted, and the poore.
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