By your hand, YHWH, deliver me from people from people of the world whose portion is in this life. You will fill their belly with your stores. Their sons will have plenty, and they leave their abundance for their children.
James 5:1 - Y'all Version Bible Come now, wealthy ones, y’all should weep and howl for the miseries that are coming upon y’all. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 Go to now, ye rich men, weep and howl for your miseries that shall come upon you. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition COME NOW, you rich [people], weep aloud and lament over the miseries (the woes) that are surely coming upon you. American Standard Version (1901) Come now, ye rich, weep and howl for your miseries that are coming upon you. Common English Bible Pay attention, you wealthy people! Weep and moan over the miseries coming upon you. Catholic Public Domain Version Act now, you who are wealthy! Weep and wail in your miseries, which will soon come upon you! Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version Go to now, ye rich men, weep and howl in your miseries, which shall come upon you. |
By your hand, YHWH, deliver me from people from people of the world whose portion is in this life. You will fill their belly with your stores. Their sons will have plenty, and they leave their abundance for their children.
The one who trusts in their riches will fall, but the righteous will flourish like the green leaf.
Riches don’t profit in the day of wrath, but righteousness delivers from death.
Wail y’all, for the day of YHWH is near! It will come as destruction from the Almighty.
In their streets, they clothe themselves in sackcloth. In their streets and on their housetops, everyone wails, weeping abundantly.
For this, y’all must put on sackcloth, and y’all are to lament and wail, for the fierce anger of YHWH has not turned away from us.
YHWH says, “Don’t let the wise glory in their wisdom. Don’t let the strong glory in their might. Don’t let the rich glory in their riches.
and say, ‘What was your mother? A lioness! She lay down among lions, and nourished her cubs among the young lions.
“Son of humanity, prophesy, and say, ‘Lord YHWH says: “Y’all are to wail, ‘Alas for the day!’
Be confounded, you farmers! Wail, you vineyard keepers, for the wheat and for the barley; for the harvest of the field has perished.
Y’all get dressed and mourn, priests! Y’all wail, ministers of the altar. Y’all come and lie all night in sackcloth, ministers of my God, for the meal offering and the drink offering are withheld from y’all’s God’s house.
Y’all wake up, drunkards, and weep! Y’all wail, all drinkers of wine, because the sweet wine is cut off from y’all’s mouth.
Her rich men are full of violence, her inhabitants speak lies, and their tongue is deceitful in their speech.
Neither their silver nor their gold will be able to deliver them in the day of YHWH’s wrath, but the whole land will be devoured by the fire of his jealousy; for he will make an end, yes, a terrible end, of all those who dwell in the land.
But Jeshurun grew fat, and kicked. You have grown fat. You have grown thick. You have become sleek. Then he abandoned God who made him, and rejected the Rock of his salvation.
For the sun rises with scorching wind and withers the grass. Then the flower falls, and its beautiful appearance is destroyed. So the rich person will also fade away in their pursuits.
But y’all have dishonored the poor. Don’t the rich oppress y’all and personally drag y’all into court?
Come now, you who say, “Today or tomorrow we will go into this city and spend a year there, trade, and make a profit.”
Y’all lament, mourn, and weep. Let y’all’s laughter be turned to mourning and y’all’s joy to gloom.