James 5:1

Contemporary English Version 1995

You rich people should cry and weep! Terrible things are going to happen to you.

Cross References

Proverbs 11:28

Trust in your wealth, and you will be a failure, but God's people will prosper like healthy plants.

Jeremiah 9:23

The Lord says: Don't brag about your wisdom or strength or wealth.

Proverbs 11:4

When God is angry, money won't help you. Obeying God is the only way to be saved from death.

James 1:11

scorched by the burning heat of the sun. The flowers lose their blossoms, and their beauty is destroyed. This is how the rich will disappear, as they go about their business.

Micah 6:12

You rich people are violent, and everyone tells lies.

Zephaniah 1:18

Not even your silver or gold can save you on that day when I, the Lord, am angry. My anger will flare up like a furious fire scorching the earth and everyone on it.”

Isaiah 13:6

Cry and weep! The day is coming when the mighty Lord will bring destruction. *

James 4:13

You should know better than to say, “Today or tomorrow we will go to the city. We will do business there for a year and make a lot of money!”

James 2:6

You mistreat the poor. But isn't it the rich who boss you around and drag you off to court?

Deuteronomy 32:15

Israel, you grew fat and rebelled against God, your Creator you rejected the Mighty Rock, your only place of safety.

Joel 1:11

Mourn for our farms and our vineyards! There's no wheat or barley growing in our fields.

Joel 1:5

Sober up, you drunkards! Cry long and loud; your wine supply is gone.

Ezekiel 19:2

Your mother was a brave lioness who raised her cubs among lions.

Jeremiah 4:8

Then I told the people of Israel, “Put on sackcloth! Mourn and cry out, ‘The Lord is still angry with us.’ ”

James 4:9

Be sad and sorry and weep. Stop laughing and start crying. Be gloomy instead of glad.

Joel 1:13

Mourn, you priests who serve at the altar of my God. Spend your days and nights wearing sackcloth. Offerings of grain and wine are no longer brought to the Lord's temple.

Psalm 17:14

Use your powerful arm and rescue me from the hands of mere humans whose world won't last. You provide food for those you love. Their children have plenty, and their grandchildren will have more than enough.

Isaiah 15:3

In the towns and at home, everyone wears sackcloth and cries loud and long.

Ezekiel 30:2

Ezekiel, son of man, tell the people of Egypt that I am saying: Cry out in despair,