Deuteronomy 8:12
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Otherwise, when you eat and are satisfied, when you build fine houses in which to dwell,
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Otherwise, I may have too much and deny You, saying, ‘Who is the LORD?’ Or I may become poor and steal, profaning the name of my God.
Because you did not serve the LORD your God with joy and gladness of heart in all your abundance,
But Jeshurun grew fat and kicked— becoming fat, bloated, and gorged. He abandoned the God who made him and scorned the Rock of his salvation.
When I have brought them into the land that I swore to give their fathers, a land flowing with milk and honey, they will eat their fill and prosper. Then they will turn to other gods and worship them, and they will reject Me and break My covenant.
Therefore, because you trample on the poor and exact from him a tax of grain, you will never live in the stone houses you have built; you will never drink the wine from the lush vineyards you have planted.
“Is it a time for you yourselves to live in your paneled houses, while this house lies in ruins?”
I expanded my pursuits. I built houses and planted vineyards for myself.
It was the same in the days of Lot: People were eating and drinking, buying and selling, planting and building.
They are saying, ‘Is not the time near to build houses? The city is the cooking pot, and we are the meat.’