1THE WORDS OF KING LEMUEL: The prophecie which his mother taught him.
2What my sonne! and what ye sonne of my wombe! and what, O sonne of my desires!
3Giue not thy strength vnto women, nor thy wayes, which is to destroy Kings.
4It is not for Kings, O Lemuel, it is not for Kings to drink wine nor for princes strog drinke,
5Lest he drinke and forget the decree, and change the iudgement of all the children of affliction.
6Giue ye strong drinke vnto him that is readie to perish, and wine vnto them that haue griefe of heart.
7Let him drinke, that he may forget his pouertie, and remember his miserie no more.
8Open thy mouth for the domme in the cause of all the children of destruction.
9Open thy mouth: iudge righteously, and iudge the afflicted, and the poore.
Proverbs 31
Proverbs 31:1-9