James 5:1

New English Translation

Come now, you rich! Weep and cry aloud over the miseries that are coming on you.

Cross References

Psalm 17:14

Lord, use your power to deliver me from these murderers, from the murderers of this world! They enjoy prosperity; you overwhelm them with the riches they desire. They have many children, and leave their wealth to their offspring.

Proverbs 11:28

The one who trusts in his riches will fall, but the righteous will flourish like a green leaf.

Proverbs 11:4

Wealth does not profit in the day of wrath, but righteousness delivers from mortal danger.

Isaiah 13:6

Wail, for the Lord’s day of judgment is near; it comes with all the destructive power of the sovereign judge.

Isaiah 15:3

In their streets they wear sackcloth; on their roofs and in their town squares all of them wail, they fall down weeping.

Jeremiah 4:8

So put on sackcloth! Mourn and wail, saying, ‘The fierce anger of the Lord has not turned away from us!’”

Jeremiah 9:23

The Lord says, “Wise people should not boast that they are wise. Powerful people should not boast that they are powerful. Rich people should not boast that they are rich.

Ezekiel 19:2

and say: “‘What a lioness was your mother among the lions! She lay among young lions; she reared her cubs.

Ezekiel 30:2

“Son of man, prophesy and say, ‘This is what the sovereign Lord says: “‘Wail, “Alas, the day is here!”

Joel 1:11

Be distressed, farmers; wail, vinedressers, over the wheat and the barley. For the harvest of the field has perished.

Joel 1:13

Get dressed and lament, you priests! Wail, you who minister at the altar! Come, spend the night in sackcloth, you servants of my God, because no one brings grain offerings or drink offerings to the temple of your God anymore.

Joel 1:5

Wake up, you drunkards, and weep! Wail, all you wine drinkers, because the sweet wine has been taken away from you.

Micah 6:12

The city’s rich men think nothing of resorting to violence; her inhabitants lie, their tongues speak deceptive words.

Zephaniah 1:18

Neither their silver nor their gold will be able to deliver them in the day of the Lord’s angry judgment. The whole earth will be consumed by his fiery wrath. Indeed, he will bring terrifying destruction on all who live on the earth.”

Deuteronomy 32:15

But Jeshurun became fat and kicked, you got fat, thick, and stuffed! Then he deserted the God who made him, and treated the Rock who saved him with contempt.

James 1:11

For the sun rises with its heat and dries up the meadow; the petal of the flower falls off and its beauty is lost forever. So also the rich person in the midst of his pursuits will wither away.

James 2:6

But you have dishonored the poor! Are not the rich oppressing you and dragging you into the courts?

James 4:13

Come now, you who say, “Today or tomorrow we will go into this or that town and spend a year there and do business and make a profit.”

James 4:9

Grieve, mourn, and weep. Turn your laughter into mourning and your joy into despair.