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Come now, you rich people, weep and howl for your miseries which are coming upon you.

Go to now, ye rich men, weep and howl for your miseries that shall come upon you.

Your riches have rotted and your garments have become moth-eaten.

Your riches are corrupted, and your garments are motheaten.

Your gold and your silver have corroded, and their corrosion will serve as a testimony against you and will consume your flesh like fire. It is in the last days that you have stored up your treasure!

Your gold and silver is cankered; and the rust of them shall be a witness against you, and shall eat your flesh as it were fire. Ye have heaped treasure together for the last days.

Behold, the pay of the laborers who mowed your fields, and which has been withheld by you, cries out against you; and the outcry of those who did the harvesting has reached the ears of the Lord of armies.

Behold, the hire of the labourers who have reaped down your fields, which is of you kept back by fraud, crieth: and the cries of them which have reaped are entered into the ears of the Lord of sabaoth.

You have lived for pleasure on the earth and lived luxuriously; you have fattened your hearts in a day of slaughter.

Ye have lived in pleasure on the earth, and been wanton; ye have nourished your hearts, as in a day of slaughter.

You have condemned and put to death the righteous person; he offers you no resistance.

Ye have condemned and killed the just; and he doth not resist you.