James 5:1

Tree of Life Version

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

Cross References

Psalm 17:14

from men, with Your hand, Adonai, from men of the world whose portion is in this life. You fill their belly with Your treasure —with plenty of children— and leave their surplus to their babes.

Proverbs 11:28

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

Proverbs 11:4

Riches make no profit in the day of wrath, but righteousness delivers from death.

Isaiah 13:6

Wail, for the day of Adonai is near! it will come as destruction from Shaddai.

Isaiah 15:3

In their streets they wear sackcloth. On their housetops and in their plazas, everyone wails, weeping profusely.

Jeremiah 4:8

Therefore, put on sackcloth— lament and wail! For the fierce anger of Adonai has not turned away from us.”

Jeremiah 9:23

But let one who boasts boast in this: that he understands and knows Me. For I am Adonai who exercises lovingkindness, justice and righteousness on earth. For in these things I delight.” It is a declaration of Adonai.

Ezekiel 19:2

and say: ‘What was your mother? A lioness! Among lions she couched, among young lions she reared her cubs.

Ezekiel 30:2

“Son of man, prophesy, and say, thus says Adonai Elohim: ‘Wail, alas, for the day!

Joel 1:11

Be ashamed, O ploughmen; wail, O vinedressers, over wheat and over barley, for the harvest of the field is lost.

Joel 1:13

Gird yourselves and weep, kohanim! Howl, ministers of the altar! Come, lie in sackcloth all night, ministers of my God. For grain and drink offering are withheld from the House of your God.

Joel 1:5

Awake, drunkards, and weep! Wail, all you drinkers of wine— on account of sweet wine, for it is denied to your mouth!

Micah 6:12

For the rich of the city are full of violence and its inhabitants speak lies. Their tongue in their mouth is deceit.

Zephaniah 1:18

Neither their silver nor their gold will be able to rescue them on the day of Adonai’s wrath. With the fire of His passion the entire earth will be consumed. For He will make a total, dreadful annihilation of all the inhabitants of the earth.

Deuteronomy 32:15

But Jeshurun grew fat and kicked— you got fat, you grew thick, you gorged! He forsook God who made him. He mocked the Rock of his salvation.

James 1:11

For the sun arises with a scorching heat and withers the grass, and its flower falls off and the beauty of its appearance is destroyed. So also the rich man in the midst of his pursuits will wither away.

James 2:6

But you have dishonored the poor person. Isn’t it the rich who oppress you and drag you into court?

James 4:13

Come now, you who say, “Today or tomorrow we will go to such and such a town and spend a year there and engage in business and make a profit.”

James 4:9

Lament and mourn and weep! Let your laughter be turned into mourning, and your joy into gloom.