1Come now, you men of wealth, give yourselves to weeping and crying because of the bitter troubles which are coming to you.
2Your wealth is unclean and insects have made holes in your clothing.
3Your gold and your silver are wasted and their waste will be a witness against you, burning into your flesh. You have put by your store in the last days.
4See, the money which you falsely kept back from the workers cutting the grass in your field, is crying out against you; and the cries of those who took in your grain have come to the ears of the Lord of armies.
5You have been living delicately on earth and have taken your pleasure; you have made your hearts fat for a day of destruction.
6You have given your decision against the upright man and have put him to death. He puts up no fight against you.
7Go on waiting calmly, my brothers, till the coming of the Lord, like the farmer waiting for the good fruit of the earth till the early and late rains have come.
