James 5:1 Cross References - MLV

¹ Come now you rich, weep, howling in your miseries, in those which are coming upon you.

¹² Lest, when you have eaten and are full and have built pleasant houses and dwelt in it, ¹³ and when your herds and your flocks multiply and your silver and your gold is multiplied and all that you have is multiplied, ¹⁴ then your heart be lifted up and you forget Jehovah your God, who brought you forth out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage,

¹⁵ But Jeshurun grew fat and kicked. You have grown fat. You have grown thick. You have become sleek. Then he forsook God who made him and lightly esteemed the Rock of his salvation.

²⁵ And they took fortified cities and a fat land and possessed houses full of all good things, cisterns hewn out, vineyards and olive-groves and fruit trees in abundance. So they ate and were filled and became fat and delighted themselves in your great goodness.
²⁶ Nevertheless they were disobedient and rebelled against you and cast your law behind their back and killed your prophets who testified against them to turn them again to you and they worked great provocations.

¹⁵ He has swallowed down riches and he will vomit them up again. God will cast them out of his belly. ¹⁶ He will suck the poison of adders. The viper's tongue will kill him. ¹⁷ He will not look upon the rivers, the flowing streams of honey and butter. ¹⁸ What he labored for will he restore and will not swallow it down. According to the substance that he has gotten, he will not rejoice.
¹⁹ For he has oppressed and forsaken the poor. He has violently taken away a house and he will not build it up. ²⁰ Because he knew no quietness within him, he will not save any of that in which he delights. ²¹ There was nothing left that he did not devour, therefore his prosperity will not endure.
²² In the fullness of his sufficiency he will be in straits. The hand of everyone who is in misery will come upon him. ²³ When he is about to fill his belly, God will cast the fierceness of his wrath upon him and will rain it upon him while he is eating. ²⁴ He will flee from the iron weapon and the bow of brass will pass him through. ²⁵ He draws it forth and it comes out of his body, yes, the glittering point comes out of his gall. Terrors are upon him. ²⁶ All darkness is laid up for his treasures. A fire not blown will devour him. It will consume what is left in his tent. ²⁷ The heavens will reveal his iniquity and the earth will rise up against him. ²⁸ The increase of his house will depart, flowed away in the day of his wrath.
²⁹ This is the portion of a wicked man from God and the heritage appointed to him by God.

¹⁴ from men by your hand, O Jehovah, from men of the world whose portion is in this life and whose belly you fill with your treasure. They are satisfied with sons and leave the rest of their substance to their babes.

⁶ Those who trust in their wealth and boast themselves in the multitude of their riches, ⁷ none can by any means redeem his brother, nor give to God a ransom for him ⁸ (for the redemption of their life is costly and it fails everlasting), ⁹ that he should still live always, that he should not see corruption. ¹⁰ Because he will see it.
Wise men die. The fool and the stupid alike perish and leave their wealth to others. ¹¹ Their inward thought is that their houses are everlasting, their dwelling-places to all generations. They call their lands after their own names.
¹² Even a man in splendor does not abide. He is like the beasts that perish. ¹³ This way of theirs is their folly. Yet men approve their sayings after them. Selah.
¹⁴ They are appointed as a flock for Sheol. Death will be their shepherd and the upright will have dominion over them in the morning. And their beauty will be for Sheol to consume, that there is no habitation for it.
¹⁵ But God will redeem my soul from the power of Sheol, because he will receive me. Selah.
¹⁶ Do not be afraid because a man is made rich, because the glory of his house is increased. ¹⁷ Because when he dies he will carry nothing away. His glory will not descend after him.
¹⁸ Because while he lived he blessed his soul (and men praise you, when you do well for yourself), ¹⁹ he will go to the generation of his fathers. They will never see the light.
²⁰ A man who is in splendor and does not understand, is like the beasts that perish.

³ Because I was envious of the arrogant when I saw the prosperity of the wicked. ⁴ Because there are no pains in their death, but their strength is firm.
⁵ They are not in trouble as other men, nor are they plagued like other men. ⁶ Therefore pride is as a chain around their neck. Violence covers them as a garment.
⁷ Their eyes stand out with fatness. They have more than heart could wish.
⁸ They scoff and utter oppression in wickedness. They speak loftily. ⁹ They have set their mouth in the heavens and their tongue walks through the earth.

¹⁸ Surely you set them in slippery places. You cast them down to destruction. ¹⁹ How they have become a desolation in a moment! They are utterly consumed with terrors.
²⁰ As a dream from awakening, O Lord, when you waken, you will despise their form.

⁴ Riches do not profit in the day of wrath, but righteousness delivers from death.

²⁸ He who trusts in his riches will fall, but the righteous will flourish as the green leaf.

¹³ There is a grievous evil which I have seen under the sun; riches were kept by its owner to his evil. ¹⁴ And those riches perish by an evil task. And if he has fathered a son, there is nothing in his hand.

⁶ Wail you*, for the day of Jehovah is at hand. It will come as destruction from the Almighty.

¹² And in that day the Lord, Jehovah of hosts, called for weeping and for mourning and for baldness and for girding with sackcloth. ¹³ And behold, joy and gladness, slaying oxen and killing sheep, eating flesh and drinking wine. Let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we will die.

⁸ For this gird you* with sackcloth, lament and wail, for the fierce anger of Jehovah is not turned back from us.

²³ Jehovah says thus: Do not let the wise man glory in his wisdom, nor let the mighty man glory in his might. Do not let the rich man glory in his riches,

² and say, What was your mother? A lioness. She couched among lions. In the midst of the young lions she nourished her cubs.

⁵ Awake, you* drunkards and weep and wail, all you* drinkers of wine, because of the sweet wine, for it is cut off from your* mouth.

¹¹ Be confounded, O you* farmer. Wail, O you* vine-dressers, for the wheat and for the barley, for the harvest of the field has 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. For the meal offering and the drink offering are withheld from the house of your* God.

⁶ who drink wine in bowls and anoint themselves with the chief oils, but they are not grieved for the affliction of Joseph.
⁷ Therefore they will now go into exile with the first who go into exile and the banqueting of those who stretched themselves will pass away.

¹² For the rich men of it are full of violence and the inhabitants of it have spoken lies and their tongue is deceitful in their mouth.

¹⁸ Neither their silver nor their gold will be able to deliver them in the day of Jehovah's wrath, but the whole land will be devoured by the fire of his jealousy. For he will make an end, yes, a terrible end, of all those who dwell in the land.

² Wail, O fir tree, for the cedar has fallen, because the fine ones are destroyed. Wail, O you* oaks of Bashan, for the strong forest has come down. ³ A voice of the wailing of the shepherds, for their glory is destroyed. A voice of the roaring of young lions, for the pride of the Jordan is laid waste.

²³ Now Jesus said to his disciples, Assuredly I am saying to you, A rich man will hardly enter into the kingdom of the heavens. ²⁴ But again I am saying to you, It is easier for a camel to go through a needle’s eye, than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of God.

²⁴ However, woe to you who are rich, because you are having your consolation! ²⁵ Woe to you who have been filled, because you will hunger! Woe to you who laugh now, because you will be mourning and will be weeping!

¹⁶ Now he spoke a parable to them, saying: The farmland of a certain rich man was fertile; ¹⁷ and he was reasoning in himself, saying, What should I do, because I have nowhere, in which, I will gather together my fruits? ¹⁸ And he said, I will be doing this: I will be taking down my barns and build greater ones. And I will be gathering together there, all my fruits of labor and my good things. ¹⁹ And I will be saying to my soul, Soul, you have many good things laid up for many years; rest yourself, eat, drink, and be joyous.
²⁰ But God said to him, Fool, your soul is asked back from you in this night, and the things which you prepared, whose will they be? ²¹ So is he who is storing up treasure for himself, and is not rich toward God.

¹⁹ Now there was a certain rich man and he was clothing himself in purple and fine-linen, having been radiantly joyous daily. ²⁰ Now there was a certain poor man, Lazarus by name, who had been put at his gate, having been full of sores, ²¹ and desiring to be fed from the falling crumbs of the rich man’s table. But even the dogs, coming to him, were licking his sores. ²² Now it happened, that the poor man died and that he was carried away by the messengers into Abraham’s bosom, and the rich man also died and was buried. ²³ And in Hades, he lifted up his eyes, being in torments, and he sees Abraham from afar, and Lazarus in his bosom.
²⁴ And having shouted, he said, Father Abraham, show-mercy to me, and send Lazarus in order that he may dip the tip of his finger in water and may cool my tongue, because I am in anguish in this flame.
²⁵ But Abraham said, Child, remember that you received your good things in your life and Lazarus likewise evil things, but now he is comforted here and you are in anguish.

²⁸ But Jesus, turning to them, said, Daughters of Jerusalem, do not weep over me, however, weep over yourselves and over your children. ²⁹ Because behold, the days are coming in which they will say, The fortunate ones are: barren and the wombs that did not give-birth and the breasts that did not nurse.

⁹ But those who are planning to be rich are falling into a temptation and a snare and many foolish and harmful lusts, which are submerging men into utter-destruction and everlasting destruction. ¹⁰ For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evils; of which some aspiring to, have been misled from the faith and they themselves are staked-through by many sorrows.

¹¹ For the sun has risen together with the burning heat, and dried up the grass, and its flower fell and the beauty of its face perished. So shall the rich man also fade away in his pursuits.

⁶ But you have dishonored the poor. Are the rich not oppressing you? And are they themselves not dragging you into the courts?

⁹ Be miserable and mourn and weep. Let your laughter be turned to mourning and your joy be turned to gloom.

¹³ Come now, you who are saying, Today and the next-day, we should travel into this city and spend one year there and be a merchant and make a gain.

¹⁵ And the kings of the earth and the great-men and the commanders and the rich and the strong and every bondservant and free man, hid themselves in the caves and in the rocks of the mountains; ¹⁶ and they say to the mountains and to the rocks, Fall upon us and hide us from the face of the one who is sitting upon the throne and from the wrath of the Lamb; ¹⁷ for the great day of his wrath has come, and who is able to stand?