“The fruit for which your soul longed has gone from you, and all your delicacies and your splendors are lost to you, never to be found again!”
Now these things took place as examples for us, that we might not desire evil as they did.
For all that is in the world—the desires of the flesh and the desires of the eyes and pride of life—is not from the Father but is from the world. And the world is passing away along with its desires, but whoever does the will of God abides forever.
You desire and do not have, so you murder. You covet and cannot obtain, so you fight and quarrel. You do not have, because you do not ask.
But Abraham said, ‘Child, remember that you in your lifetime received your good things, and Lazarus in like manner bad things; but now he is comforted here, and you are in anguish.
But God said to him, ‘Fool! This night your soul is required of you, and the things you have prepared, whose will they be?’
But they had a wanton craving in the wilderness, and put God to the test in the desert;
Now the rabble that was among them had a strong craving. And the people of Israel also wept again and said, “Oh that we had meat to eat!
They tested God in their heart by demanding the food they craved.
Therefore the name of that place was called Kibroth-hattaavah, because there they buried the people who had the craving.
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