James 5:1

New American Bible - revised edition

Come now, you rich, weep and wail over your impending miseries.

Cross References

Psalm 17:14

Slay them with your sword; with your hand, Lord, slay them; snatch them from the world in their prime. Their bellies are being filled with your friends; their children are satisfied too, for they share what is left with their young.

Proverbs 11:28

Those who trust in their riches will fall, but like green leaves the just will flourish.

Proverbs 11:4

Wealth is useless on a day of wrath, but justice saves from death.

Isaiah 13:6

Howl, for the day of the Lord is near; as destruction from the Almighty it comes.

Isaiah 15:3

In the streets they wear sackcloth, and on the rooftops; In the squares everyone wails, streaming with tears.

Jeremiah 4:8

So put on sackcloth, mourn and wail: “The blazing anger of the Lord has not turned away from us.”

Jeremiah 9:23

But rather, let those who boast, boast of this, that in their prudence they know me, Know that I, the Lord, act with fidelity, justice, and integrity on earth. How I take delight in these—oracle of the Lord. False Circumcision.

Ezekiel 19:2

and say: What a lioness was your mother, a lion among lions! She made her lair among young lions, to raise her cubs;

Ezekiel 30:2

Son of man, prophesy and say: Thus says the Lord God: Wail: “Alas the day!”

Joel 1:11

Be appalled, you farmers! wail, you vinedressers, Over the wheat and the barley, because the harvest in the field is ruined.

Joel 1:13

Gird yourselves and lament, you priests! wail, ministers of the altar! Come, spend the night in sackcloth, ministers of my God! For the grain offering and the libation are withheld from the house of your God.

Joel 1:5

Wake up, you drunkards, and weep; wail, all you wine drinkers, Over the new wine, taken away from your mouths.

Micah 6:12

You whose wealthy are full of violence, whose inhabitants speak falsehood with deceitful tongues in their mouths!

Zephaniah 1:18

Neither their silver nor their gold will be able to save them. On the day of the Lord’s wrath, in the fire of his passion, all the earth will be consumed. For he will make an end, yes, a sudden end, of all who live on the earth.

Deuteronomy 32:15

So Jacob ate and was satisfied, Jeshurun grew fat and kicked; you became fat and gross and gorged. They forsook the God who made them and scorned the Rock of their salvation.

James 1:11

For the sun comes up with its scorching heat and dries up the grass, its flower droops, and the beauty of its appearance vanishes. So will the rich person fade away in the midst of his pursuits. Temptation.

James 2:6

But you dishonored the poor person. Are not the rich oppressing you? And do they themselves not haul you off to court?

James 4:13

Come now, you who say, “Today or tomorrow we shall go into such and such a town, spend a year there doing business, and make a profit”—

James 4:9

Begin to lament, to mourn, to weep. Let your laughter be turned into mourning and your joy into dejection.