And fire came out from before the Lord, burning up the offering on the altar and the fat: and when all the people saw it, they gave a loud cry, falling down on their faces.
And get the fat young ox and put it to death, and let us have a feast, and be glad.
But when this your son came, who has been wasting your property with bad women, you put to death the fat young ox for him.
For the heart of this people has become fat and their ears are slow in hearing and their eyes are shut; for fear that they might see with their eyes and give hearing with their ears and become wise in their hearts and be turned again to me, so that I might make them well.
Again he sent out other servants, with orders to say to the guests, See, I have made ready my feast: my oxen and my fat beasts have been put to death, and all things are ready: come to the feast.
Now the food made ready for one day was one ox and six fat sheep, as well as fowls; and once in ten days a store of all sorts of wine: but all the same, I did not take the food to which the ruler had a right, because the people were crushed under a hard yoke.
Then he said to them, Go away now, and take the fat for your food and the sweet for your drink, and send some to him for whom nothing is made ready: for this day is holy to our Lord: and let there be no grief in your hearts; for the joy of the Lord is your strong place.
And they took walled towns and a fat land, and became the owners of houses full of all good things, water-holes cut in the rock, vine-gardens and olive-gardens and a wealth of fruit-trees: so they had food enough and became fat, and had joy in the good you gave them.
For they have not been your servants in their kingdom, and in all the good things you gave them, and in the great and fat land you gave them, and they have not been turned away from their evil-doing.
But no such payment may be made for the first birth of an ox or a sheep or a goat; these are holy: their blood is to be dropped on the altar, and their fat burned for an offering made by fire, a sweet smell to the Lord.
He who gives blessing will be made fat, but the curser will himself be cursed.
The hater of work does not get his desires, but the soul of the hard workers will be made fat.
Better is a simple meal where love is, than a fat ox and hate with it.
The light of the eyes is a joy to the heart, and good news makes the bones fat.
He who is ever desiring profit is a cause of fighting; but he who puts his faith in the Lord will be made fat.
She has put her fat beasts to death; her wine is mixed, her table is ready.
My knees are feeble for need of food; there is no fat on my bones.
Their hearts are shut up with fat; but my delight is in your law.
He gives peace in all your land, making your stores full of fat grain.
They are shut up in their fat: with their mouths they say words of pride.
May he keep all your offerings in mind, and be pleased with the fat of your burned offerings; (Selah.)
All the fat ones of the earth will give him worship; all those who go down to the dust will make themselves low before him, even he who has not enough for the life of his soul.
But the wrongdoers will come to destruction, and the haters of the Lord will be like the fat of lambs, they will be burned up; they will go up in smoke, and never again be seen.
I will give you burned offerings of fat beasts, and the smoke of sheep; I will make offerings of oxen and goats. (Selah.)
For they have no pain; their bodies are fat and strong.
Their eyes are bursting with fat; they have more than their heart's desire.
For see, I will put a sheep-keeper over the land, who will have no care for that which is cut off, and will not go in search of the wanderers, or make well what is broken, and he will not give food to that which is ill, but he will take for his food the flesh of the fat, and let their feet be broken.
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