and your oxen and your sheep are multiplied to you, and your silver and your gold are multiplied to you, and all your possessions are multiplied to you,

[that] you should be exalted in your heart, and forget the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage;

So Jacob ate and was filled, and the beloved one kicked; he grew fat, he became thick and broad: then he forsook the God that made him, and departed from God his Savior.

And after this King Artaxerxes highly honored Haman, [son] of Hammedatha, the Bugaean, and exalted him, and set his seat above all his friends.

And when Haman understood that Mordecai did not bow down to him, he was greatly enraged,

and took counsel to utterly destroy all the Jews who were under the rule of Artaxerxes.

So Haman went out from the king very glad [and] merry; but when Haman saw Mordecai the Jew in the court, he was greatly enraged.

And he showed them his wealth, and the glory with which the king had invested him, and how he had caused him to take precedence and bear chief rule in the kingdom.

Why do the ungodly live, and grow old even in wealth?

Their houses are prosperous, and safe from fear, neither is the rod of the Lord upon them.

And they remain as an unfailing flock, and their children play before [them], taking up the psaltery and harp;

And they spend their days in wealth, and fall asleep in the rest of the grave.

What is the Mighty One, that we should serve Him? And what profit is there that we should approach Him?

Because there is no contradiction made on the part of those who are quick to do evil, therefore the heart of the children of men is fully determined in them to do evil.

Moab has been at ease from a child, and trusted in his glory; he has not poured out [his liquor] from vessel to vessel, and has not gone into banishment, therefore his taste remained in him, and his smell departed not.

And I have heard of the pride of Moab, he has greatly heightened his pride and his haughtiness, and his heart has been lifted up.

And you, son of man, say to the prince of Tyre, Thus says the Lord: Because your heart has been exalted, and you have said, I am God, I have inhabited the dwelling of God in the heart of the sea; yet you are a man and not God, though you have set your heart as the heart of God.

Have you gained power for yourself by your [own] knowledge or your [own] prudence, and [gathered] gold and silver in your treasures?

the king answered and said, Is not this great Babylon, which I have built for a royal residence, by the might of my power, for the honor of my glory?

And the weight of the golden earrings which he asked was one thousand seven hundred pieces of gold, besides the crescents, and the chains, and the garments, and the purple cloths that were on the kings of Midian, and besides the chains that were on the necks of their camels.

For you shall receive a crown of grace for your head, and a chain of gold around your neck.

My sister, my spouse, you have ravished my heart; you have ravished my heart with one of your eyes, with one chain of your neck.

and the chains, and the ornaments of their faces,

and decked you also with ornaments, and put bracelets on your hands, and a necklace on your neck.

Do not procure the reproaches of bad men, neither shall you covet their ways.

For these live upon the bread of ungodliness, and are drunken with [the] wine of transgression.

They meditated troubles, and wrought wickedness on their beds, and they put it in execution with the daylight; for they have not lifted up their hands to God.

And they desired fields, and plundered orphans, and oppressed families, and spoiled a man and his house, even a man and his inheritance.

Thus says the Lord concerning the prophets that lead My people astray, that bite with their teeth, and proclaim peace to them; and [when] nothing was put into their mouth, they raised up war against them:

Indeed, the wages of the laborers who reaped your fields, which were kept back by you, cry out, and the cries of the reapers have entered into the ears of the Lord of Hosts.

You have condemned; you have murdered the just. He does not resist you.

Yea, he put on cursing as a garment, and it has come as water into his bowels, and as oil into his bones.

Let those that falsely accuse me be clothed with shame, and let them cover themselves with their shame as with a mantle.

Likewise, younger [people], subject yourselves to [the] elders. And all of you be subject to one another, and be clothed with humility, because "God resists the proud, but gives grace to the humble."