"Lest when thou hast eaten and art full, and hast built goodly houses, and dwelt therein;"
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For when I shall have brought them into the land which I sware unto their fathers, that floweth with milk and honey; and they shall have eaten and filled themselves, and waxen fat; then will they turn unto other gods, and serve them, and provoke me, and break my covenant.
I made me great works; I builded me houses; I planted me vineyards:
That saith, I will build me a wide house and large chambers, and cutteth him out windows; and it is cieled with cedar, and painted with vermilion.
Which say, It is not near; let us build houses: this city is the caldron, and we be the flesh.
I did know thee in the wilderness, in the land of great drought.
Forasmuch therefore as your treading is upon the poor, and ye take from him burdens of wheat: ye have built houses of hewn stone, but ye shall not dwell in them; ye have planted pleasant vineyards, but ye shall not drink wine of them.
Is it time for you, O ye, to dwell in your cieled houses, and this house lie waste?
Likewise also as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold, they planted, they builded;
Because thou servedst not the LORD thy God with joyfulness, and with gladness of heart, for the abundance of all things;
But Jeshurun waxed fat, and kicked: thou art waxen fat, thou art grown thick, thou art covered with fatness; then he forsook God which made him, and lightly esteemed the Rock of his salvation.
Lest I be full, and deny thee, and say, Who is the LORD? or lest I be poor, and steal, and take the name of my God in vain.
And when you have taken food and are full, and have made fair houses for yourselves and are living in them;
lest when thou hast eaten and art full, and hast built and inhabited fine houses,
Lest when thou hast eaten and art full, and hast built goodly houses, and dwelt therein;
Lest when thou hast eaten, and art full, and hast built goodly houses, and dwelt in them;
lest, when you have eaten and are full, and have built goodly houses, and lived therein;
lest thou eat, and hast been satisfied, and good houses dost build, and hast inhabited;