1. Act now, you who are wealthy! Weep and wail in your miseries, which will soon come upon you!
2. Your riches have been corrupted, and your garments have been eaten by moths.
3. Your gold and silver have rusted, and their rust will be a testimony against you, and it will eat away at your flesh like fire. You have stored up wrath for yourselves unto the last days.
4. Consider the pay of the workers who reaped your fields: it has been misappropriated by you; it cries out. And their cry has entered into the ears of the Lord of hosts.
5. You have feasted upon the earth, and you have nourished your hearts with luxuries, unto the day of slaughter.