James 5:1

Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

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

Cross References

Proverbs 11:28

Anyone trusting in his riches will fall, but the righteous will flourish like foliage.

Jeremiah 9:23

‘ “This is what the Lord says: The wise person should not boast in his wisdom; the strong should not boast in his strength; the wealthy should not boast in his wealth.

Proverbs 11:4

Wealth is not profitable on a day of wrath, but righteousness rescues from death.

James 1:11

For the sun rises and, together with the scorching wind, dries up the grass; its flower falls off, and its beautiful appearance perishes. In the same way, the rich person will wither away while pursuing his activities.

Micah 6:12

For the wealthy of the city are full of violence, and its residents speak lies; the tongues in their mouths are deceitful.

Zephaniah 1:18

Their silver and their gold will be unable to rescue them on the day of the  Lord’s wrath. The whole earth will be consumed by the fire of his jealousy, for he will make a complete, yes, a horrifying end of all the inhabitants of the earth.

Isaiah 13:6

Wail! For the day of the  Lord is near. It will come as destruction from the Almighty.

James 4:13

Come now, you who say, ‘Today or tomorrow we will travel to such and such a city and spend a year there and do business and make a profit.’

James 2:6

Yet you have dishonoured the poor.  Don’t the rich oppress you and drag  you into court?

Deuteronomy 32:15

Then  Jeshurun  , became fat and rebelled – you became fat, bloated, and gorged. He abandoned the God who made him and scorned the Rock of his salvation.

Joel 1:11

Be ashamed, you farmers, wail, you vinedressers, over the wheat and the barley, because the harvest of the field has perished.

Joel 1:5

Wake up, you drunkards,  and weep; wail, all you wine drinkers, because of the sweet wine, for it has been taken from your mouth.

Ezekiel 19:2

and say: What was your mother? A lioness! She lay down among the lions; she reared her cubs among the young lions.

Jeremiah 4:8

Because of this, put on sackcloth; mourn and wail, for the Lord’s burning anger has not turned away from us.

James 4:9

Be miserable and mourn and weep. Let your laughter be turned to mourning and your joy to gloom.

Joel 1:13

Dress in sackcloth and lament,  you priests; wail,  you ministers of the altar. Come and spend the night in sackcloth, you ministers of my God, because grain and drink offerings are withheld from the house of your God.

Isaiah 15:3

In its streets they wear sackcloth; on its rooftops and in its public squares everyone wails, falling down and weeping.

Ezekiel 30:2

‘Son of man, prophesy and say, “This is what the Lord God says: Wail,  ‘Woe because of that day! ’