Ecclesiastes 2:1 Cross References - VIN

¹ I said in my heart, "Come now, I will test you with rejoicing. Consider goodness." This also is vanity.

³ They said to each other: "Let us make bricks and bake them thoroughly." They used brick instead of stone, and tar for mortar. ⁴ Then they said: "Let us build ourselves a city, with a lofty tower that reaches into space, so that we may make a name for ourselves and not be scattered over the face of the whole earth."

⁷ "Let us go down and confuse their language so they will not understand each other."

⁵ So the king of Aram said, "Go, I will send a letter to the king of Israel." He went and took with him ten talents of silver, six thousand shekels of gold, and ten sets of clothing.

⁶ He says to himself: "Nothing can shake me. I will never face trouble."

¹ For the music director. Of David. The fool says in his heart, "There is no God." They are corrupt. They do abominable deeds. There is none who does good.

⁸ My heart says to You, Seek my face; Your face, O LORD, I will seek;

⁶ When things went well for me I said, I will never be moved. ⁷ You, LORD, when you favored me, made my mountain stand strong; but when you hid your face, I was troubled.

¹⁶ I said to myself, "Look! I have become great and have increased in wisdom more than anyone who has preceded me over Jerusalem. I have acquired a great deal of wisdom and knowledge." ¹⁷ I applied my heart to know wisdom, and to know madness and folly. I perceived that this also was a chasing after wind.

¹⁵ Then I said in my heart: "As it happens to the fool, so it will happen to me. Why have I been so wise?" Then I said in my heart: "This also is vanity."

¹⁷ I said in my heart, God shall judge the righteous and the wicked: for there is a time for every purpose and for every work. ¹⁸ I said in my heart, "As for the sons of men, God tests them, so that they may see that they themselves are like animals.

⁴ The heart of the wise is in the house of mourning, but the heart of fools is in the house of pleasure.

¹⁵ So I recommend enjoyment. For there is nothing better for man under the sun than to eat and to drink and to rejoice. This will accompany him in his toil the days of his life that God gives to him under the sun.

⁹ Rejoice, young man, in your youth, and let your heart cheer you in the days of your youth, and walk in the ways of your heart, and in the sight of your eyes; but know that for all these things God will bring you into judgment.

⁵ Now I will tell you what I will do to my vineyard. I will take away its hedge, and it will be eaten up. I will break down its wall, and it will be trampled down.

⁵ The Sovereign LORD has opened my ear. I was not rebellious. I have not turned back.

¹¹ But all of you light fires and arm yourselves with flaming torches. So walk in your own light and among the torches you have lit. This is what you will receive from me: You will be tormented.

¹⁹ Then I will say to myself, “You have plenty of good things laid up for many years. Take it easy. Eat, drink, and be merry!”’

¹⁹ "There was once a rich man, who used to dress in purple and fine linen, and to live in luxury every day.

²³ In Hades, where he was in torment, he looked up and saw Abraham from afar, with Lazarus by his side.

³ For at one time we too were foolish, disobedient, misled, enslaved to all sorts of desires and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, and hating one another.

¹³ Come now, you who say, “Today or tomorrow we will go to this or that city, spend a year there, carry on business, and make a profit.”

¹ Come on now, you rich people, cry and wail over the miseries that are coming upon you.

⁵ You have lived on earth in luxury and self-indulgence. You have fattened your hearts in the day of slaughter.

⁷ give her torment and pain in proportion to her pride and luxury; for she said in her heart, "I am enthron'd like a queen, I am no widow, and shall see no sorrow." ⁸ Therefore in one day her plagues will come, pestilence and mourning and famine, and she will be burned with fire; for mighty is the Lord God who judges her.