And thus you shall say, May you and your house seasonably prosper, and all yours be in prosperity.

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?

They are not in the troubles of [other] men; and they shall not be scourged with [other] men.

Their injustice shall go forth as out of fatness; they have fulfilled their intention.

but they engaged in joy and gladness, slaying calves, and killing sheep, so as to eat flesh, and drink wine; saying, Let us eat and drink; for tomorrow we die.

who excel in the sound of musical instruments; they have regarded them as abiding, not as fleeting [pleasures];

who drink strained wine, and anoint themselves with the best ointment, and have suffered nothing on occasion of the calamity of Joseph.

And I will say to my soul, "Soul, you have many goods laid away for many years; relax; eat, drink, and be merry."'

And not many days after, having gathered together all things, the younger son went on a journey to a distant country, and there wasted his possessions with prodigal living.

"Now there was a certain rich man who was clothed in purple and fine linen, enjoying himself splendidly every day.

You lived luxuriously upon the earth and you lived riotously, you nourished your hearts as in a day of slaughter.

In as many things as she glorified herself and lived luxuriously, in the same measure give to her torment and sorrow; because she says in her heart, 'I sit as queen, and am not a widow, and I shall by no means see sorrow.'

He that is tender and very delicate within you shall look with an evil eye upon his brother, and the wife in his bosom, and the children that are left, which may have been left to him;

And she that is tender and delicate among you, whose foot has not ventured to go upon the earth for delicacy and tenderness, shall look with an evil eye on her husband in her bosom, and her son and her daughter,

And Samuel said, Bring me Agag the king of Amalek. And Agag came to him trembling; and Agag said, Is death thus bitter?

He that lives wantonly from a child shall be a servant, and in the end shall grieve over himself.

Come down, sit on the ground, O virgin daughter of Babylon; sit on the ground, O daughter of the Chaldeans; for you shall no more be called tender and luxurious.

And [your] pride shall be taken away, O daughter of Zion.

HE. They that feed on dainties are desolate in the streets; they that used to be nursed in scarlet have clothed themselves with dung.

But what have you gone out to see? A man clothed in soft garments? Indeed those who are gorgeously appareled and live in luxury are in royal [palaces].

But Jesus said to him, "Follow Me, and leave the dead to bury their own dead."

for this my son was dead and came to life, and he was lost and was found.' And they began to be merry.

But it was necessary to be merry and to rejoice, because your brother was dead and is alive again, and was lost and is found.'"

For the love of Christ compels us, having concluded this: that if One died for all, then all died;

and He died for all, so that they who live should live no longer for themselves, but for the [One] who died for them and rose again.

And you [He made alive], being dead in transgressions and sins,

even when we were dead in transgressions, made us alive together with Christ (by grace you have been saved),

Therefore He says: "Awake, you who are sleeping, and arise from the dead, and Christ will shine on you."

And you, being dead in your trespasses and the uncircumcision of your flesh, He made you alive together with Him, having forgiven us all our trespasses,

"And to the angel of the church in Sardis write, 'These things says He that has the seven Spirits of God and the seven stars: "I know your works, that you have a name, that you live, and you are dead.