and wine to gladden the heart of man, oil to make his face shine and bread to strengthen man's heart.
You prepare a table before me in the presence of my enemies; you anoint my head with oil; my cup overflows.
Bread is made for laughter, and wine gladdens life, and money answers everything.
Go, eat your bread with joy, and drink your wine with a merry heart, for God has already approved what you do.
But the vine said to them, ‘Shall I leave my wine that cheers God and men and go hold sway over the trees?’
You have loved righteousness and hated wickedness; therefore God, your God, has anointed you with the oil of gladness beyond your companions.”
And do not get drunk with wine, for that is debauchery, but be filled with the Spirit,
But you have exalted my horn like that of the wild ox; you have poured over me fresh oil.
But you have been anointed by the Holy One, and you all have knowledge.
The Lord of hosts will protect them, and they shall devour, and tread down the sling stones, and they shall drink and roar as if drunk with wine, and be full like a bowl, drenched like the corners of the altar. On that day the Lord their God will save them, as the flock of his people; for like the jewels of a crown they shall shine on his land. For how great is his goodness, and how great his beauty! Grain shall make the young men flourish, and new wine the young women.
Moreover, he said to me, “Son of man, behold, I will break the supply of bread in Jerusalem. They shall eat bread by weight and with anxiety, and they shall drink water by measure and in dismay.
They shall come and sing aloud on the height of Zion, and they shall be radiant over the goodness of the Lord, over the grain, the wine, and the oil, and over the young of the flock and the herd; their life shall be like a watered garden, and they shall languish no more.
But the olive tree said to them, ‘Shall I leave my abundance, by which gods and men are honored, and go hold sway over the trees?’
You did not anoint my head with oil, but she has anointed my feet with ointment.
For behold, the Lord God of hosts is taking away from Jerusalem and from Judah support and supply, all support of bread, and all support of water;
Let him kiss me with the kisses of his mouth! For your love is better than wine; your anointing oils are fragrant; your name is oil poured out; therefore virgins love you. Draw me after you; let us run. The king has brought me into his chambers. We will exult and rejoice in you; we will extol your love more than wine; rightly do they love you.
Who is like the wise? And who knows the interpretation of a thing? A man's wisdom makes his face shine, and the hardness of his face is changed.
Give strong drink to the one who is perishing, and wine to those in bitter distress;
When he summoned a famine on the land and broke all supply of bread,
You shall have olive trees throughout all your territory, but you shall not anoint yourself with the oil, for your olives shall drop off.
And he humbled you and let you hunger and fed you with manna, which you did not know, nor did your fathers know, that he might make you know that man does not live by bread alone, but man lives by every word that comes from the mouth of the Lord.
When I break your supply of bread, ten women shall bake your bread in a single oven and shall dole out your bread again by weight, and you shall eat and not be satisfied.
And he took a cup, and when he had given thanks he gave it to them, and they all drank of it.
“Son of man, when a land sins against me by acting faithlessly, and I stretch out my hand against it and break its supply of bread and send famine upon it, and cut off from it man and beast,
when I send against you the deadly arrows of famine, arrows for destruction, which I will send to destroy you, and when I bring more and more famine upon you and break your supply of bread.
while I bring a morsel of bread, that you may refresh yourselves, and after that you may pass on—since you have come to your servant.” So they said, “Do as you have said.”
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