These are the hidden reefs at your love feasts, feasting alongside you without any shame, looking after only themselves. They are clouds without a drop of rain, blown along by the wind; trees in late autumn, fruitless, twice dead, uprooted.
In context
10But these people slander what they do not understand, and the very things they do grasp by instinct—like unreasoning animals—are exactly what destroy them. 11Woe to them! They have followed the path of Cain, rushed headlong into Balaam’s error for profit, and destroyed themselves in Korah’s rebellion. 12These are the hidden reefs at your love feasts, feasting alongside you without any shame, looking after only themselves. They are clouds without a drop of rain, blown along by the wind; trees in late autumn, fruitless, twice dead, uprooted. 13They are violent waves of the sea, churning their own shame into foam, and stars that have strayed from their course, for whom the blackest darkness has been kept forever. 14It was Enoch—the seventh in line from Adam—who prophesied about these very people, saying, “Look, the Lord is coming with countless thousands of his holy ones,