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Proverbs 31:7

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Let him drink, and forget his poverty, and remember his misery no more.
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    18And be not drunk with wine, wherein is excess; but be filled with the Spirit;

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Proverbs 31:7

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let

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Sense 1: To allow or permit; in older KJV use, also to hinder or restrain. Sense 2: To lower or send down.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

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forget

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To fail or cease to remember; to lose from mind; to neglect or disregard.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references · Webster 1828

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poverty

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The condition of being poor, destitute, or lacking necessary provision.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references · Webster 1828

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remember

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1. To retain in mind or call back to mind; to recall. 2. To keep in mind with heed, observance, commemoration, or corresponding action. 3. To take account of a person, promise, deed, sin, or need and act with regard to it.

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31:1THE words of king Lemuel, the prophecy that his mother taught him.

31:2What, my son? and what, the son of my womb? and what, the son of my vows?

31:3Give not thy strength unto women, nor thy ways to that which destroyeth kings.

31:4It is not for kings, O Lemuel, it is not for kings to drink wine; nor for princes strong drink:

31:5Lest they drink, and forget the law, and pervert the judgment of any of the afflicted.

31:6Give strong drink unto him that is ready to perish, and wine unto those that be of heavy hearts.

31:7Let him drink, and forget his poverty, and remember his misery no more.

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31:8Open thy mouth for the dumb in the cause of all such as are appointed to destruction.

31:9Open thy mouth, judge righteously, and plead the cause of the poor and needy.

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