James 5. https://www.tinyurl.com/Ashurit
1. O, you wealthy people, lament and weep about the demons that will descend upon you. 2. For your wealth will tarnish and get ugly and your clothes shall be eaten by moths, 3. And your gold and silver will be exposed. And their glitter will be a testimony against you. And that wealth will eat your flesh. You have gathered a fire for yourselves in the Final Days. 4. Behold, the recompense of the laborers that harvested your lands, that you oppressed, is crying out, and the drudgery of the harvest has reached the ears of the Lord in fact. 5. For you frolicked on the earth and you cheated and you stuffed your bodies as for the day of slaughter. 6. You exploited and killed the righteous and they did not rise against you.
7. You, however, brethren, pour out your souls until the Coming of the Lord, like the farmer who nurtures his precious fruit trees on his land, and pours out his soul over them, until they receive the short rains and the heavy rains. 8. Likewise, you too, pour out your souls and let your hearts be true, for the Coming of the Lord is approaching. 9. Do not sigh among yourselves, brethren, that the wealthy are not judged, for, behold, the judgment awaits them at the gates.* 10. You should wish to become like the prophets, brethren, as they poured out their spirits on your behalf, those that spoke in the name of the Lord. 11. For, behold, we give blessings to those who preached to us the Hope [of the Kingdom.] You heard of the Hope of Job and you saw what the Lord did for him later, "For the Lord is merciful and compassionate towards us -- that He is."
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Sarrah
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James 5. https://www.tinyurl.com/Ashurit 1. O, you wealthy people, lament and weep about the demons that will descend upon you. 2. For your wealth will tarnish and get ugly and your clothes shall be eaten by moths, 3. And your gold and silver will be exposed. And their glitter will be a testimony against you. And that wealth will eat your flesh. You have gathered a fire for yourselves in the Final Days. 4. Behold, the recompense of the laborers that harvested your lands, that you oppressed, is crying out, and the drudgery of the harvest has reached the ears of the Lord in fact. 5. For you frolicked on the earth and you cheated and you stuffed your bodies as for the day of slaughter. 6. You exploited and killed the righteous and they did not rise against you. 7. You, however, brethren, pour out your souls until the Coming of the Lord, like the farmer who nurtures his precious fruit trees on his land, and pours out his soul over them, until they receive the short rains and the heavy rains. 8. Likewise, you too, pour out your souls and let your hearts be true, for the Coming of the Lord is approaching. 9. Do not sigh among yourselves, brethren, that the wealthy are not judged, for, behold, the judgment awaits them at the gates.* 10. You should wish to become like the prophets, brethren, as they poured out their spirits on your behalf, those that spoke in the name of the Lord. 11. For, behold, we give blessings to those who preached to us the Hope [of the Kingdom.] You heard of the Hope of Job and you saw what the Lord did for him later, "For the Lord is merciful and compassionate towards us -- that He is."