lest I be full and deny you and say, “Who is the Lord?” or I be poor and steal and profane the name of my God.
Deuteronomy 8:12 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021 When you have eaten your fill and have built fine houses and live in them More versionsKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 lest when thou hast eaten and art full, and hast built goodly houses, and dwelt therein; Amplified Bible - Classic Edition Lest when you have eaten and are full, and have built goodly houses and live in them, American Standard Version (1901) lest, when thou hast eaten and art full, and hast built goodly houses, and dwelt therein; Common English Bible When you eat, get full, build nice houses, and settle down, Catholic Public Domain Version Otherwise, after you have eaten and been satisfied, and have built beautiful houses and have lived in them, Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version Lest after thou hast eaten and art filled, hast built goodly houses, and dwelt in them. |
lest I be full and deny you and say, “Who is the Lord?” or I be poor and steal and profane the name of my God.
they say, ‘The time is not near to build houses; this city is the pot, and we are the meat.’
Therefore because you trample on the poor and take from them levies of grain, you have built houses of hewn stone, but you shall not live in them; you have planted pleasant vineyards, but you shall not drink their wine.
“Is it a time for you yourselves to live in your paneled houses, while this house lies in ruins?
Likewise, just as it was in the days of Lot, they were eating and drinking, buying and selling, planting and building,
“Because you did not serve the Lord your God joyfully and with gladness of heart for the abundance of everything,
For when I have brought them into the land flowing with milk and honey, which I promised on oath to their ancestors, and they have eaten their fill and grown fat, they will turn to other gods and serve them, despising me and breaking my covenant.
Jacob ate his fill; Jeshurun grew fat and kicked. You grew fat, bloated, and gorged! He abandoned God who made him and scoffed at the Rock of his salvation.
“When the Lord your God has brought you into the land that he swore to your ancestors, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give you—a land with fine, large cities that you did not build,
and when your herds and flocks have multiplied and your silver and gold is multiplied and all that you have is multiplied,