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What to make of this?
By Jeremy | December 1, 2006
Now listen, you rich people, weep and wail because of the misery that is coming upon you. Your wealth has rotted, and moths have eaten your clothes. Your gold and silver are corroded. Their corrosion will testify against you and eat your flesh like fire. You have hoarded wealth in the last days. Look! The wages you failed to pay the workmen who mowed your fields are crying out against you. The cries of the harvesters have reached the ears of the Lord Almighty. You have lived on earth in luxury and self-indulgence. You have fattened yourselves in the day of slaughter. You have condemned and murdered innocent men, who were not opposing you.The Message paraphrases the same passage like this:
And a final word to you arrogant rich: Take some lessons in lament. You'll need buckets for the tears when the crash comes upon you. Your money is corrupt and your fine clothes stink. Your greedy luxuries are a cancer in your gut, destroying your life from within. You thought you were piling up wealth. What you've piled up is judgment. All the workers you've exploited and cheated cry out for judgment. The groans of the workers you used and abused are a roar in the ears of the Master Avenger. You've looted the earth and lived it up. But all you'll have to show for it is a fatter than usual corpse. In fact, what you've done is condemn and murder perfectly good persons, who stand there and take it.movie cox nude courtneyporn star moviepreviews thumb movieporn thumbs moviemovies rape inall time of movies scariestsex trailers movieslut movies Map
Topics: economics, faith, poverty | 1 Comment »
December 3rd, 2006 at 11:09 pm
The Message version seems to indicate that those bad things to come and from those that are arrogant and rich. The NIV doesn’t seem to have that connection though… So one version would give hope for those of us that are rich that we could be that and not arrogant – because the majority of us certainly are rich…
It also reminds me of I Tim 6:17-18 [which our pastor spoke from this morning] – and there Paul seems to imply that you can be rich but to keep your arrogance in those riches in check.