we will find all kinds of precious possessions, we will fill our houses with plunder;
let us swallow them up alive like Sheol, and whole, like those who go down into the pit;
cast in your lot among us; let us all have one purse,”
So are the ways of everyone who is greedy for gain; it takes away the life of its owners.
Better it is to be of a humble spirit among the poor, than to divide the plunder with the proud.
They do not know how to do right, says the Lord, storing up violence and destruction in their fortresses.
Proclaim to the fortresses in Ashdod, and the fortresses in the land of Egypt, and say: “Assemble yourselves on the mountains of Samaria, and see the great disorders within her, and the oppression in her midst.”
The lion tore enough food for his cubs, and strangled prey for his lionesses; he has filled his caves with prey, and his dens with flesh.
The glory of this latter house will be greater than the former, says the Lord of Hosts. And in this place I will give peace, says the Lord of Hosts.
Then He said to them, “Take heed and beware of covetousness. For a man’s life does not consist in the abundance of his possessions.”