James 5:1

Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

Come now, you rich, weep and howl for the miseries that are coming upon you.

Cross References

Psalm 17:14

from men by thy hand, O Lord, from men whose portion in life is of the world. May their belly be filled with what thou hast stored up for them; may their children have more than enough; may they leave something over to their babes.

Proverbs 11:28

He who trusts in his riches will wither, but the righteous will flourish like a green leaf.

Proverbs 11:4

Riches do not profit in the day of wrath, but righteousness delivers from death.

Isaiah 13:6

Wail, for the day of the Lord is near; as destruction from the Almighty it will come!

Isaiah 15:3

in the streets they gird on sackcloth; on the housetops and in the squares every one wails and melts in tears.

Jeremiah 4:8

For this gird you with sackcloth, lament and wail; for the fierce anger of the Lord has not turned back from us.”

Jeremiah 9:23

Thus says the Lord: “Let not the wise man glory in his wisdom, let not the mighty man glory in his might, let not the rich man glory in his riches;

Ezekiel 19:2

and say: What a lioness was your mother among lions! She couched in the midst of young lions, rearing her whelps.

Ezekiel 30:2

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

Joel 1:11

Be confounded, O tillers of the soil, wail, O vinedressers, for the wheat and the barley; because the harvest of the field has perished.

Joel 1:13

Gird on sackcloth and lament, O priests, wail, O ministers of the altar. Go in, pass the night in sackcloth, O ministers of my God! Because cereal offering and drink offering are withheld from the house of your God.

Joel 1:5

Awake, you drunkards, and weep; and wail, all you drinkers of wine, because of the sweet wine, for it is cut off from your mouth.

Micah 6:12

Your rich men are full of violence; your inhabitants speak lies, and their tongue is deceitful in their mouth.

Zephaniah 1:18

Neither their silver nor their gold shall be able to deliver them on the day of the wrath of the Lord. In the fire of his jealous wrath, all the earth shall be consumed; for a full, yea, sudden end he will make of all the inhabitants of the earth.

Deuteronomy 32:15

“But Jeshurun waxed fat, and kicked; you waxed fat, you grew thick, you became sleek; then he forsook God who made him, and scoffed at the Rock of his salvation.

James 1:11

For the sun rises with its scorching heat and withers the grass; its flower falls, and its beauty perishes. So will the rich man fade away in the midst of his pursuits.

James 2:6

But you have dishonored the poor man. Is it not the rich who oppress you, is it not they who drag you into court?

James 4:13

Come now, you who say, “Today or tomorrow we will go into such and such a town and spend a year there and trade and get gain”;

James 4:9

Be wretched and mourn and weep. Let your laughter be turned to mourning and your joy to dejection.