Numbers 23:4
4 aand God met Balaam. And Balaam said to him, “I have arranged the seven altars and I have offered on each altar a bull and a ram.”Micah 3:9-11
9 bHear this, you heads of the house of Jacoband rulers of the house of Israel,
cwho detest justice
and make crooked all that is straight,
10 dwho build Zion with blood
and Jerusalem with iniquity.
11 eIts heads give judgment for a bribe;
fits priests teach for a price;
gits prophets practice divination for money;
hyet they lean on the Lord and isay,
“Is not the Lord in the midst of us?
jNo disaster shall come upon us.”
Zechariah 7:5-7
5“Say to all the people of the land and the priests, 'When you fasted and mourned in kthe fifth month and in lthe seventh, for these mseventy years, nwas it ofor me that you fasted? 6 pAnd when you eat and when you drink, do you not eat for yourselves and drink for yourselves? 7 qWere not these the words that the Lord proclaimed rby the former prophets, when Jerusalem was inhabited and prosperous, swith her cities around her, and the tSouth and the ulowland were inhabited?'”Malachi 3:14
14You have said, v‘It is vain to serve God. wWhat is the profit of our keeping his charge or of walking as in mourning before the Lord of hosts?Matthew 20:11-12
11And on receiving it they grumbled at the master of the house, 12saying, ‘These last worked only one hour, and you have made them equal to us who have borne the burden of the day and xthe scorching heat.’Luke 15:29
29but he answered his father, ‘Look, these many years I have served you, and I never disobeyed your command, yet you never gave me a young goat, that I might ycelebrate with my friends.
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