“The fruit for which your soul longed has gone from you, and all your delicacies and your splendors are lost to you, never to be found again!”
Now these things took place as examples for us, that we might not desire evil as they did.
You desire and do not have, so you murder. You covet and cannot obtain, so you fight and quarrel. You do not have, because you do not ask.
But Abraham said, ‘Child, remember that you in your lifetime received your good things, and Lazarus in like manner bad things; but now he is comforted here, and you are in anguish.
But God said to him, ‘Fool! This night your soul is required of you, and the things you have prepared, whose will they be?’
But they had a wanton craving in the wilderness, and put God to the test in the desert;
Now the rabble that was among them had a strong craving. And the people of Israel also wept again and said, “Oh that we had meat to eat!
They tested God in their heart by demanding the food they craved.
Therefore the name of that place was called Kibroth-hattaavah, because there they buried the people who had the craving.
What then did you go out to see? A man dressed in soft clothing? Behold, those who wear soft clothing are in kings’ houses.
cinnamon, spice, incense, myrrh, frankincense, wine, oil, fine flour, wheat, cattle and sheep, horses and chariots, and slaves, that is, human souls.
The merchants of these wares, who gained wealth from her, will stand far off, in fear of her torment, weeping and mourning aloud,