his soul will go to the generation of his fathers, who will never again see light.
Luke 6:25 - English Standard Version 2016 “Woe to you who are full now, for you shall be hungry. “Woe to you who laugh now, for you shall mourn and weep. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 Woe unto you that are full! for ye shall hunger. Woe unto you that laugh now! for ye shall mourn and weep. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition Woe to (alas for) you who are full now (completely filled, luxuriously gorged and satiated), for you shall hunger and suffer want! Woe to (alas for) you who laugh now, for you shall mourn and weep and wail! American Standard Version (1901) Woe unto you, ye that are full now! for ye shall hunger. Woe unto you, ye that laugh now! for ye shall mourn and weep. Common English Bible How terrible for you who have plenty now, because you will be hungry. How terrible for you who laugh now, because you will mourn and weep. Catholic Public Domain Version Woe to you who are satisfied, for you will be hungry. Woe to you who laugh now, for you will mourn and weep. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version Woe to you that are filled: for you shall hunger. Woe to you that now laugh: for you shall mourn and weep. |
his soul will go to the generation of his fathers, who will never again see light.
Even in laughter the heart may ache, and the end of joy may be grief.
lest I be full and deny you and say, “Who is the Lord?” or lest I be poor and steal and profane the name of my God.
Sorrow is better than laughter, for by sadness of face the heart is made glad.
For as the crackling of thorns under a pot, so is the laughter of the fools; this also is vanity.
These also reel with wine and stagger with strong drink; the priest and the prophet reel with strong drink, they are swallowed by wine, they stagger with strong drink, they reel in vision, they stumble in giving judgment.
Therefore thus says the Lord God: “Behold, my servants shall eat, but you shall be hungry; behold, my servants shall drink, but you shall be thirsty; behold, my servants shall rejoice, but you shall be put to shame;
They will pass through the land, greatly distressed and hungry. And when they are hungry, they will be enraged and will speak contemptuously against their king and their God, and turn their faces upward.
They slice meat on the right, but are still hungry, and they devour on the left, but are not satisfied; each devours the flesh of his own arm,
I will turn your feasts into mourning and all your songs into lamentation; I will bring sackcloth on every waist and baldness on every head; I will make it like the mourning for an only son and the end of it like a bitter day.
For they are like entangled thorns, like drunkards as they drink; they are consumed like stubble fully dried.
But God said to him, ‘Fool! This night your soul is required of you, and the things you have prepared, whose will they be?’
In that place there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth, when you see Abraham and Isaac and Jacob and all the prophets in the kingdom of God but you yourselves cast out.
“But woe to you who are rich, for you have received your consolation.
“Woe to you, when all people speak well of you, for so their fathers did to the false prophets.
Let there be no filthiness nor foolish talk nor crude joking, which are out of place, but instead let there be thanksgiving.
While people are saying, “There is peace and security,” then sudden destruction will come upon them as labor pains come upon a pregnant woman, and they will not escape.
Be wretched and mourn and weep. Let your laughter be turned to mourning and your joy to gloom.
For you say, I am rich, I have prospered, and I need nothing, not realizing that you are wretched, pitiable, poor, blind, and naked.
Those who were full have hired themselves out for bread, but those who were hungry have ceased to hunger. The barren has borne seven, but she who has many children is forlorn.