World English Bible

1 Esdras 3:21-24 World English Bible (WEB)

21. and it makes every heart rich, so that a man remembers neither king nor satrap; and it makes to speak all things by talents:

22. and when they are in their cups, they forget their love both to friends and brethren, and a little after draw their swords:

23. but when they awake from their wine, they remember not what they have done.

24. O sirs, is not wine the strongest, seeing that it enforces to do thus? And when he had so spoken, he held his peace.