lest I be full, deny you, and say, 'Who is the LORD?' or lest I be poor, and steal, and so dishonor the name of my God.
Deuteronomy 8:12 - Hebrew Names version (HNV) lest, when you have eaten and are full, and have built goodly houses, and lived therein; Tuilleadh leaganachaKing 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, deny you, and say, 'Who is the LORD?' or lest I be poor, and steal, and so dishonor the name of my God.
I made myself great works. I built myself houses. I planted myself vineyards.
who say, [The time] is not near to build houses: this [city] is the caldron, and we are the flesh.
Forasmuch therefore as you trample on the poor, and take taxes from him of wheat: You have built houses of hewn stone, but you will not dwell in them. You have planted pleasant vineyards, but you shall not drink their wine.
*Is it a time for you yourselves to dwell in your paneled houses, while this house lies waste?
Likewise, even as it happened in the days of Lot: they ate, they drank, they bought, they sold, they planted, they built;
Because you didn't serve the LORD your God with joyfulness, and with gladness of heart, by reason of the abundance of all things;
For when I shall have brought them into the land which I swore to their fathers, flowing with milk and honey, and they shall have eaten and filled themselves, and grown fat; then will they turn to other gods, and serve them, and despise me, and break my covenant.
But Yeshurun grew fat, and kicked. You have grown fat. You have grown thick. You have become sleek. Then he forsook God who made him, and lightly esteemed the Rock of his salvation.
It shall be, when the LORD your God shall bring you into the land which he swore to your fathers, to Avraham, to Yitzchak, and to Ya`akov, to give you, great and goodly cities, which you didn't build,
and when your herds and your flocks multiply, and your silver and your gold is multiplied, and all that you have is multiplied;