1. Come now, rich ones, weep, crying aloud over the hardships coming upon you!
2. Your riches have rotted, and your garments have become moth-eaten.
3. Your gold and silver have become rusty, and their rust shall be a witness against you and shall eat your flesh like fire. You have laid up treasure in the last days.
4. See, the wages of the workmen who mowed your fields, which you kept back, cry out. And the cries of the reapers have reached the ears of יהוה of hosts.
5. You have lived on the earth in pleasure and luxury, you have fattened your hearts, as in a day of slaughter.
6. You have condemned, you have murdered the righteous – he does not resist you.
7. So, brothers, be patient until the coming of the Master. See, the farmer waits for the precious fruit of the earth, waiting patiently for it until it receives the early and latter rain.