James 5:1 Cross References - NSB

¹ Come now, you rich, weep and howl for your miseries that are coming upon you.

¹² »You will eat all you want. You will build nice houses and live in them. ¹³ »Your herds and flocks, silver and gold, and all that you have will increase. ¹⁴ »When this happens, be careful that you do not become arrogant and forget Jehovah your God. He brought you out of slavery in Egypt.

¹⁵ »Jeshurun (Israel) grew fat and disrespectful. You got fat! You were stuffed! You over eat! He abandoned the God who made him and scornfully treated the rock of his salvation.

²⁵ »And they took walled towns and a fat land. They 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. They had food enough and became fat, and had joy in the good you gave them. ²⁶ »But they were hard-hearted, and went against your authority. They turned their backs on your law, and murdered your prophets. These prophets gave witness against them with the purpose of turning them back again to you. They did much to make you angry.

¹⁵ »He will spit out the riches he swallowed. God will make his stomach vomit them up. ¹⁶ »He will suck the poison of serpents. The fangs of an adder (cobra) will kill him. ¹⁷ »He will not look upon the streams, the rivers flowing with honey and cream. ¹⁸ »What he toiled for he must give back uneaten. He will not enjoy the profit from his trading. ¹⁹ »For he has oppressed and forsaken the poor and left them destitute. He has violently seized houses he did not build. ²⁰ »He will have no respite from his craving; he cannot save himself by his treasure. ²¹ »There is nothing left for him to devour; his prosperity will not endure. ²² »Distress will overtake him in the midst of his plenty. The full force of misery will come upon him. ²³ »With his belly full, God will vent his burning anger against him and rain down his blows upon him. ²⁴ »Though he flees from an iron weapon, a bronze-tipped arrow pierces him. ²⁵ »He pulls it out of his back, the gleaming point out of his liver. Terrors will come over him. ²⁶ »Total darkness lies in wait for his treasures. A fire will consume him and devour what is left in his tent. ²⁷ »The heavens will expose his guilt. The earth will rise up against him! ²⁸ »A flood will carry off his house. Rushing waters will wash away his possessions on the day of God’s wrath. ²⁹ »This is the fate God allots the wicked, the heritage appointed for them by God.«

¹⁴ With your power (by your hand) rescue me from mortals, O Jehovah, from mortals who look forward only to this life. You fill their bellies with your treasure. Their children are satisfied with it, and they leave what remains to their children.

⁶ They trust their riches and brag about their abundant wealth. ⁷ No one can ever redeem (buy back) his brother or pay God a ransom for his life. ⁸ The price to be paid for him is so costly it can never be paid ⁹ so they should live forever and never see the grave (pit) (destruction). ¹⁰ One can see that wise people die, that foolish and stupid people meet the same end. They leave their wealth to others. ¹¹ Inwardly they think their houses are forever, their dwelling place to all generations. So they named their lands after themselves. ¹² But mortals will not continue here with what they treasure. They are like animals that die. ¹³ This is the final outcome for fools and their followers who are delighted by what they say: ¹⁴ Like sheep, they are laid in the grave. Death will shepherd them. The upright will rule them in the morning. Their forms will decay in the grave, far away from their comfortable homes. ¹⁵ But God will redeem me (buy me back) from the power of the grave because he will receive me. ¹⁶ Do not be afraid when someone becomes rich, when the greatness of his house increases. ¹⁷ He will not take anything with him when he dies. Even his greatness cannot follow him. ¹⁸ Even though he blesses himself while he is alive. (People will praise you when you do well for yourself.) ¹⁹ He must join the generation of his ancestors who will never see light again. ²⁰ Mortals, with what they treasure, still do not have understanding. They are like animals that die.

³ I was envious of arrogant people when I saw the peace and prosperity that wicked people enjoy. ⁴ They suffer no pain. Their bodies are healthy. ⁵ They have no drudgery in their lives like ordinary people. They are not plagued with problems like mankind. ⁶ That is why arrogance is their necklace and violence covers them like clothing. ⁷ Their eyes stand out with fatness, and their heart’s imagination run wild. ⁸ They ridicule. They speak maliciously. They speak arrogantly about oppression. ⁹ They set their mouth in the heavens and their tongue parades through the earth.

¹⁸ Surely you set them in slippery places. You threw them down into destruction. ¹⁹ How are they destroyed, suddenly! They are utterly consumed with terrors. ²⁰ It is like waking up from a dream, O Jehovah. When you awake you will despise everything they represent.

⁴ Riches do not profit in the day of wrath. Righteousness delivers from death.

²⁸ He who trusts in his riches will fall. The righteous will flourish as a leaf on a branch.

¹³ I have seen a grievous evil under the sun. I have seen riches being hoarded by their owner to his downfall (distress). ¹⁴ When those riches were lost through a bad investment and he fathered a son, then there was no support for him.

⁶ »Shout (wail) (howl) for the Day of Jehovah is near! It will come as destruction from the Almighty.

¹² In that day Jehovah God of Hosts called to weeping and mourning, to baldness and putting on sackcloth. ¹³ Instead there was joy and festivity, killing oxen and slaughtering sheep, eating meat and drinking wine. »Let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we die.«

⁸ »Dress in sackcloth, beat your breasts (mourn), and cry because Jehovah’s burning anger has not turned back from us.

²³ This is what Jehovah says: »Do not let wise people brag about their wisdom. Do not let strong people brag about their strength. Do not let rich people brag about their riches.«

² »Say: ‘What a lioness was your mother among the lions! She lay down among the young lions and reared her cubs.

⁶ »You drink wine in bowls, and anoint yourselves with the finest oils. But you are not grieved because of the affliction of Joseph. ⁷ »Therefore you will be captured with the first that go captive. Your feasting and lounging will pass away.«

⁵ »Awake, you drunkards, and weep! Wail you drinkers of wine. The sweet wine is removed from your mouth.

¹¹ »Be ashamed you farmers. Cry you vinedressers. The wheat, the barley and the harvest of the field have perished.

¹³ »Gird yourselves with sackcloth, and lament, you priests! Wail, you ministers of the altar. Come, lie all night in sackcloth you ministers of my God! The meal offering and the drink offering are withheld from the House of your God.

¹² The rich men are full of violence! Her inhabitants speak lies. Their tongue is deceitful in their mouth.

¹⁸ »Their silver and their gold will not be able to keep them safe in the Day of Jehovah’s anger (rage) (wrath). He will devour all the nations by the fire of his zeal! He will exterminate all the inhabitants of the earth!«

² »Wail, You fir tree, for the cedar has fallen, because the majestic ones are destroyed. Wail you oaks of Bashan, for the strong forest has come down. ³ »Listen to the wailing of the shepherds! Their glory is destroyed! Listen to the roaring of young lions! The pride of the Jordan is laid waste.«

²³ Jesus said to his disciples: »Truly I tell you, it is hard for a man with much money to go into the kingdom of heaven. ²⁴ »Again I say, It is easier for a camel to go through a needle’s eye, than for a man with much money to go into the kingdom of God.«

²⁴ »Woe to you who are rich! You have received your reward. ²⁵ »Woe to you who are full now! For you will hunger. Woe to you who laugh now! You will mourn and weep.

¹⁶ He spoke an illustration to them: »The land of a rich man produced well. ¹⁷ »He reasoned to himself, what will I do? I have nowhere to store my fruits? ¹⁸ »He said: »I would pull down my barns and build larger barns. I will store all my grain and goods there. ¹⁹ »I will say to my self: ‘You have many possessions saved for many years. Take it easy and eat, drink and be merry.’ ²⁰ »But God said to him: ‘You fool this night you will give up your life. Then who will have all these things you accumulated?’ ²¹ »He who lays up (earthly) treasure for himself is not rich toward God.«

¹⁹ »A rich man dressed in the most expensive clothes and lived in great luxury every day. ²⁰ »A poor man named Lazarus, covered with sores, used to be brought to the rich man’s door. ²¹ »He hoped he could eat the bits of food that fell from the rich man’s table. Then the dogs would come and lick his sores. ²² »The poor man died and was carried by the angels to Abraham’s bosom. The rich man died and was buried. ²³ »He was in great torment in the grave (hades). He looked up and saw Abraham, far away, with Lazarus at his side. ²⁴ »He called out: Father Abraham! Take pity on me! Please send Lazarus to dip his finger in some water and cool off my tongue. I am in torment in this fire! ²⁵ »Abraham said: Remember, my son, in your lifetime you were given good things, while Lazarus got all the bad things. Now he is enjoying himself while you are in torment.

²⁸ Jesus turned to them and said: »Daughters of Jerusalem do not weep for me but weep for yourselves and for your children. ²⁹ »The days are coming when they will say blessed are the barren those without children and the breasts that never nursed.

⁹ Those who are determined to be rich fall into a temptation and a snare and many foolish and hurtful lusts. These draw men into ruin and destruction. ¹⁰ For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evil. Some by longing for it have been led away from the faith. They have pierced themselves through with many sorrows.

¹¹ The sun rises with scorching heat and withers the grass. The flower falls off and its beauty perishes. So also the rich man will fade away in his pursuits.

⁶ You have dishonored the poor man. Do the rich oppress you, and personally drag you into court?

⁹ Be afflicted, and mourn, and weep: let your laughter be turned to mourning, and your joy to heaviness.

¹³ Come now, you that say, »Today or tomorrow we will go to this city, and spend a year there, and trade, and make profit.«

¹⁵ The kings of the earth, and the great men, and the rich men, and the military commanders, and the mighty men, and every slave and every free man, hid themselves in the caves and in the rocks of the mountains. ¹⁶ They said to the mountains and rocks: »Fall on us, and hide us from the presence of him who sits on the throne, and from the wrath of the Lamb: ¹⁷ »For the great day of his wrath has come; and who will be able to stand?«