NOW LISTEN, YOU RICH PEOPLE

 

Now listen, you Rich People

Weep and Wail

Because of the Misery that is Coming on you.

2 Your Gold and Silver has Rotted,

And Moths have Eaten your Clothes.

3 Your Gold and Silver are Corroded.

Their Corrosion will Testify Against you

And Eat your Flesh like Fire.

You have Hoarded Wealth in the Last Days.

4 Look!

The Wages you Failed to Pay the Workers

Who Mowed your Fields are Crying out Against you

The Cries of the Harvesters

Have Reached the Ears of the Lord Almighty.

5 You have Lived on Earth

In Luxury and Self-Indulgence

You have Fattened Yourselves in the Day of Slaughter.

6 You have Condemned and Murdered

THE INNOCENT ONE,

Who was not Opposing you.

(James 5:1-6, NIV)