^{1 Ref} Go, now, ye rich! weep, howling over your miseries that are coming upon `you';

^{2 Ref} your riches have rotted, and your garments have become moth-eaten;

^{3 Ref} your gold and silver have rotted, and the rust of them for a testimony shall be to you, and shall eat your flesh as fire. Ye made treasure in the last days!

^{4 Ref} lo, the reward of the workmen, of those who in-gathered your fields, which hath been fraudulently kept back by you -- doth cry out, and the exclamations of those who did reap into the ears of the Lord of Sabaoth have entered;

^{5 Ref} ye did live in luxury upon the earth, and were wanton; ye did nourish your hearts, as in a day of slaughter;

^{6 Ref} ye did condemn -- ye did murder the righteous one, he doth not resist you.

^{7 Ref} Be patient, then, brethren, till the presence of the Lord; lo, the husbandman doth expect the precious fruit of the earth, being patient for it, till he may receive rain -- early and latter;

^{8 Ref} be patient, ye also; establish your hearts, because the presence of the Lord hath drawn nigh;