Quotes About Luxury

Hangings of white and blue linen were fastened with cords of fine white and purple material to silver rings on the marble pillars. Gold and silver couches were arranged on a mosaic pavement of porphyry, marble, mother-of-pearl, and other costly stones.

I have decked my bed with coverings, with colored linen from Egypt.

Luxury is unseemly for a fool—how much worse for a slave to rule over princes!

Their land is full of silver and gold, with no limit to their treasures; their land is full of horses, with no limit to their chariots.

So now hear this, O lover of luxury who sits securely, who says to herself, ëI am, and there is none besides me. I will never be a widow or know the loss of children.í

who says, ëI will build myself a great palace, with spacious upper rooms.í So he cuts windows in it, panels it with cedar, and paints it with vermilion.

You sat on a couch of luxury with a table spread before it, on which you had set My incense and My oil,

Aram was your customer because of your many products; they exchanged turquoise, purple, embroidered work, fine linen, coral, and rubies for your wares.

You lie on beds inlaid with ivory, and lounge upon your couches. You dine on lambs from the flock and calves from the stall.

You drink wine by the bowlful and anoint yourselves with the finest oils, but you fail to grieve over the ruin of Joseph.

Now there was a rich man dressed in purple and fine linen, who lived each day in joyous splendor.

You have lived on earth in luxury and self-indulgence. You have fattened your hearts in the day of slaughter.

All the nations have drunk the wine of the passion of her immorality. The kings of the earth were immoral with her, and the merchants of the earth have grown wealthy from the extravagance of her luxury.”

As much as she has glorified herself and lived in luxury, give her the same measure of torment and grief. In her heart she says, ëI sit as queen; I am not a widow and will never see grief.í

Then the kings of the earth who committed sexual immorality and lived in luxury with her will weep and wail at the sight of the smoke rising from the fire that consumes her.

cargo of gold, silver, precious stones, and pearls; of fine linen, purple, silk, and scarlet; of all kinds of citron wood and every article of ivory, precious wood, bronze, iron, and marble;

And they will say: “The fruit of your soulís desire has departed from you; all your luxury and splendor have vanished, never to be seen again.”