as the time when the Jews got relief from their enemies, and as the month when their sorrow was turned into joy and their mourning into a day of celebration. He wrote them to observe the days as days of feasting and joy and giving presents of food to one another and gifts to the poor.

His sons used to hold feasts in their homes on their birthdays, and they would invite their three sisters to eat and drink with them.

When a period of feasting had run its course, Job would make arrangements for them to be purified. Early in the morning he would sacrifice a burnt offering for each of them, thinking, “Perhaps my children have sinned and cursed God in their hearts.” This was Job’s regular custom.

One day when Job’s sons and daughters were feasting and drinking wine at the oldest brother’s house,

While he was still speaking, yet another messenger came and said, “Your sons and daughters were feasting and drinking wine at the oldest brother’s house,

The womb forgets them, the worm feasts on them; the wicked are no longer remembered but are broken like a tree.

Its young ones feast on blood, and where the slain are, there it is.”

All the rich of the earth will feast and worship; all who go down to the dust will kneel before him— those who cannot keep themselves alive.

They feast on the abundance of your house; you give them drink from your river of delights.

lest strangers feast on your wealth and your toil enrich the house of another.

All the days of the oppressed are wretched, but the cheerful heart has a continual feast.

Better a dry crust with peace and quiet than a house full of feasting, with strife.

As goods increase, so do those who consume them. And what benefit are they to the owners except to feast their eyes on them?

It is better to go to a house of mourning than to go to a house of feasting, for death is the destiny of everyone; the living should take this to heart.

Woe to the land whose king was a servant and whose princes feast in the morning.

A feast is made for laughter, wine makes life merry, and money is the answer for everything.

Your New Moon feasts and your appointed festivals I hate with all my being. They have become a burden to me; I am weary of bearing them.

On this mountain the Lord Almighty will prepare a feast of rich food for all peoples, a banquet of aged wine— the best of meats and the finest of wines.

then you will find your joy in the Lord, and I will cause you to ride in triumph on the heights of the land and to feast on the inheritance of your father Jacob.” For the mouth of the Lord has spoken.

“And do not enter a house where there is feasting and sit down to eat and drink.

But while they are aroused, I will set out a feast for them and make them drunk, so that they shout with laughter— then sleep forever and not awake,” declares the Lord.

“As you summon to a feast day, so you summoned against me terrors on every side. In the day of the Lord’s anger no one escaped or survived; those I cared for and reared my enemy has destroyed.”

At the feasts and the appointed festivals, the grain offering is to be an ephah with a bull, an ephah with a ram, and with the lambs as much as he pleases, along with a hin of oil for each ephah.

They are unfaithful to the Lord; they give birth to illegitimate children. When they celebrate their New Moon feasts, he will devour their fields.

What will you do on the day of your appointed festivals, on the feast days of the Lord?