Ambition

“Is it not enough that you have brought us up out of a land flowing with milk and honey to kill us in the wilderness? Must you also appoint yourself as ruler over us?”

“But Jehoash king of Israel replied to Amaziah king of Judah: “A thistle in Lebanon sent a message to a cedar in Lebanon, saying, ‘Give your daughter to my son in marriage.’ Then a wild beast in Lebanon came along and trampled the thistle.”

“Though his arrogance reaches the heavens, and his head touches the clouds,”

“he will perish forever, like his own dung; those who had seen him will ask, ‘Where is he?’”

“Their graves are their eternal homes— their dwellings for endless generations— even though their lands were their namesakes.”

“Woe to you who add house to house and join field to field until no place is left and you live alone in the land.”

“and wealth indeed betrays him. He is an arrogant man never at rest. He enlarges his appetite like Sheol, and like Death, he is never satisfied. He gathers all the nations to himself and collects all the peoples as his own.”

“Will not all of these take up a taunt against him, speaking with mockery and derision: ‘Woe to him who amasses what is not his and makes himself rich with many loans! How long will this go on?’”