1. Come now, Oh ye rich, weep and howl for your miseries that shall come upon you.
2. Your riches are rotten, and your garments are motheaten.
3. Your gold and silver is corrupted with rust; and the rust of them shall be a witness against you and shall completely eat your flesh, as fire. Ye have heaped treasure together for the last days.
4. Behold, the hire of the labourers who have reaped your fields (which you have kept back by fraud) cries out; and the cries of those who have reaped have entered into the ears of the Lord of the hosts.
5. Ye have lived in pleasure on the earth and been wanton; ye have refreshed your hearts, as in the day of slaughter of sacrifices.
6. Ye have condemned and murdered the just, and he does not resist you.
7. Be patient, therefore, brethren, unto the coming of the Lord. Behold, the husbandman waits for the precious fruit of the earth, waiting patiently until it receives the early and latter rain.
8. Be ye also patient and confirm your hearts, for the coming of the Lord draws near.
9. Complain not one against another, brethren, that ye not be condemned: behold, the judge stands before the door.
10. Take, my brethren, the prophets, who have spoken in the name of the Lord, for an example of suffering affliction, and of patience.