The wicked's sustenance: 'They eat the bread of wickedness and drink the wine of violence.' The metaphor of eating and drinking—normally sources of nourishment and joy—becomes corrupted. The wicked are sustained not by natural food but by wickedness and violence. This is their diet, their way of life. The verse suggests that prolonged wickedness becomes a kind of nourishment, addiction even. Once initiated into violence and betrayal, the wicked find themselves unable to live any other way. The young person should recognize that the wicked are not truly free but enslaved to destructive appetites.

COMMUNITY REFLECTIONS

Publish a note on this verse