James 5:1

Woes On The Rich Who Oppress Others

¹ Come now, you men of wealth, give yourselves to weeping and crying because of the bitter troubles which are coming to you. ² Your wealth is unclean and insects have made holes in your clothing.

Listen to Me

Weep And Wail

Proverbs 11:28

He who puts his faith in wealth will come to nothing; but the upright man will be full of growth like the green leaf.

Isaiah 13:6

Send out a cry of grief; for the day of the Lord is near; it comes as destruction from the Most High.

James 4:13

How foolish it is to say, Today or tomorrow we will go into this town, and be there for a year and do business there and get wealth:

Deuteronomy 8:12-14

And when you have taken food and are full, and have made fair houses for yourselves and are living in them;

Deuteronomy 32:15

But Jeshurun became fat and would not be controlled: you have become fat, you are thick and full of food: then he was untrue to the God who made him, giving no honour to the Rock of his salvation.

Nehemiah 9:25-26

And they took walled towns and a fat land, and became the owners of houses full of all good things, water-holes cut in the rock, vine-gardens and olive-gardens and a wealth of fruit-trees: so they had food enough and became fat, and had joy in the good you gave them.

Job 20:15-29

He takes down wealth as food, and sends it up again; it is forced out of his stomach by God.

Psalm 49:6-20

Even of those whose faith is in their wealth, and whose hearts are lifted up because of their stores.

Psalm 73:3-9

Because of my envy of the men of pride, when I saw the well-being of the wrongdoers.

Psalm 73:18-20

You put their feet where there was danger of slipping, so that they go down into destruction.

Proverbs 11:4

Wealth is of no profit in the day of wrath, but righteousness keeps a man safe from death.

Ecclesiastes 5:13-14

There is a great evil which I have seen under the sun--wealth kept by the owner to be his downfall.

Isaiah 22:12-13

And in that day the Lord, the Lord of armies, was looking for weeping, and cries of sorrow, cutting off of the hair, and putting on the clothing of grief:

Jeremiah 4:8

For this put on haircloth, with weeping and loud crying: for the burning wrath of the Lord is not turned back from us.

Jeremiah 9:23

This is the word of the Lord: Let not the wise man take pride in his wisdom, or the strong man in his strength, or the man of wealth in his wealth:

Ezekiel 19:2

What was your mother? Like a she-lion among lions, stretched out among the young lions she gave food to her little ones.

Joel 1:5

Come out of your sleep, you who are overcome with wine, and give yourselves to weeping; give cries of sorrow, all you drinkers of wine, because of the sweet wine; for it has been cut off from your mouths.

Joel 1:11

The farmers are shamed, the workers in the vine-gardens give cries of grief, for the wheat and the barley; for the produce of the fields has come to destruction.

Joel 1:13

Put haircloth round you and give yourselves to sorrow, you priests; give cries of grief, you servants of the altar: come in, and, clothed in haircloth, let the night go past, you servants of my God: for the meal offering and the drink offering have been kept back from the house of your God.

Amos 6:6-7

Drinking wine in basins, rubbing themselves with the best oils; but they have no grief for the destruction of Joseph.

Micah 6:12

For its men of wealth are cruel, and its people have said what is not true, and their tongue is false in their mouth.

Zephaniah 1:18

Even their silver and their gold will not be able to keep them safe in the day of the Lord's wrath; but all the land will be burned up in the fire of his bitter wrath: for he will put an end, even suddenly, to all who are living in the land.

Zechariah 11:2-3

Give a cry of grief, O fir-tree, for the fall of the cedar, because the great ones have been made low: give cries of grief, O you oaks of Bashan, for the strong trees of the wood have come down.

Matthew 19:23-24

And Jesus said to his disciples, Truly I say to you, It is hard for a man with much money to go into the kingdom of heaven.

Luke 6:24-25

But unhappy are you who have wealth: for you have been comforted now.

Luke 12:16-21

And he said to them, in a story, The land of a certain man of great wealth was very fertile:

Luke 16:19-25

Now there was a certain man of great wealth, who was dressed in fair clothing of purple and delicate linen, and was shining and glad every day.

Luke 23:28-29

But Jesus, turning to them, said, Daughters of Jerusalem, let not your weeping be for me, but for yourselves and for your children.

1 Timothy 6:9-10

But those who have a desire for wealth are falling into danger, and are taken as in a net by a number of foolish and damaging desires, through which men are overtaken by death and destruction.

James 1:11

For when the sun comes up with its burning heat, the grass gets dry and the grace of its form is gone with the falling flower; so the man of wealth comes to nothing in his ways.

James 2:6

But you have put the poor man to shame. Are not the men of wealth rulers over you? do they not take you by force before their judges?

James 4:9

Be troubled, with sorrow and weeping; let your laughing be turned to sorrow and your joy to grief.

Revelation 6:15-17

And the kings of the earth, and the rulers, and the chief captains, and the men of wealth, and the strong, and every servant and free man, took cover in the holes and the rocks of the mountains;