James 5:1

God's Word

Pay attention to this if you’re rich. Cry and moan about the misery that is coming to you.

Cross References

Psalm 17:14

With your power rescue me from mortals, O Lord, from mortals who enjoy their inheritance only in this life. You fill their bellies with your treasure. Their children are satisfied ⌞with it⌟, and they leave what remains to their children.

Proverbs 11:28

Whoever trusts his riches will fall, but righteous people will flourish like a green leaf.

Proverbs 11:4

Riches are of no help on the day of fury, but righteousness saves from death.

Isaiah 13:6

Cry loudly, for the day of the Lord is near. It will come like destruction from the Almighty.

Isaiah 15:3

In their streets they wear sackcloth. On their roofs and in their city squares everyone wails and cries.

Jeremiah 4:8

So put on sackcloth, mourn, and cry because the Lord’s burning anger hasn’t turned away from us.

Jeremiah 9:23

This is what the Lord says: Don’t let wise people brag about their wisdom. Don’t let strong people brag about their strength. Don’t let rich people brag about their riches.

Ezekiel 19:2

Say: Your mother was like a lioness. She lay down among the lions. She fed many cubs.

Ezekiel 30:2

“Son of man, prophesy. Say, ‘This is what the Almighty Lord says: Cry for that day!

Joel 1:11

Be sad, you farmers! Cry loudly, you grape growers! Mourn for the wheat and the barley. The harvest is destroyed in the field.

Joel 1:13

Put on your sackcloth and mourn, you priests. Cry loudly, you servants of the altar. Spend the night in sackcloth, you servants of my God. Grain offerings and wine offerings are withheld from your God’s temple.

Joel 1:5

Wake up and cry, you drunks! Cry loudly, you wine drinkers! New wine has been taken away from you.

Micah 6:12

The rich people in the city are violent. Those who live in the city speak lies, and their tongues speak deceitfully.

Zephaniah 1:18

Their silver and their gold will not be able to rescue them on the day of the Lord’s overflowing fury. The whole earth will be consumed by his fiery anger, because he will put an end, a frightening end, to those who live on earth.

Deuteronomy 32:15

Jeshurun  got fat and disrespectful. (You got fat! You were stuffed! You were gorged!) They abandoned the God who made them and treated the rock of their salvation like a fool.

James 1:11

The sun rises with its scorching heat and dries up plants. The flowers drop off, and the beauty is gone. The same thing will happen to rich people. While they are busy, they will die.

James 2:6

Yet, you show no respect to poor people. Don’t rich people oppress you and drag you into court?

James 4:13

Pay attention to this! You’re saying, “Today or tomorrow we will go into some city, stay there a year, conduct business, and make money.”

James 4:9

Be miserable, mourn, and cry. Turn your laughter into mourning and your joy into gloom.