lest, when you have eaten and are full and have built good houses and live in them,
lest I be full and deny you and say, “Who is the Lord?” or lest I be poor and steal and profane the name of my God.
It was I who knew you in the wilderness, in the land of drought; but when they had grazed, they became full, they were filled, and their heart was lifted up; therefore they forgot me.
“But Jeshurun grew fat, and kicked; you grew fat, stout, and sleek; then he forsook God who made him and scoffed at the Rock of his salvation.
Because you did not serve the Lord your God with joyfulness and gladness of heart, because of the abundance of all things,
Likewise, just as it was in the days of Lot—they were eating and drinking, buying and selling, planting and building,
“Is it a time for you yourselves to dwell in your paneled houses, while this house lies in ruins?
Therefore because you trample on the poor and you exact taxes of grain from him, you have built houses of hewn stone, but you shall not dwell in them; you have planted pleasant vineyards, but you shall not drink their wine.
who says, ‘I will build myself a great house with spacious upper rooms,’ who cuts out windows for it, paneling it with cedar and painting it with vermilion. Do you think you are a king because you compete in cedar? Did not your father eat and drink and do justice and righteousness? Then it was well with him.
I made great works. I built houses and planted vineyards for myself.
For when I have brought them into the land flowing with milk and honey, which I swore to give to their fathers, and they have eaten and are full and grown fat, they will turn to other gods and serve them, and despise me and break my covenant.
who say, ‘The time is not near to build houses. This city is the cauldron, and we are the meat.’
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