The Proud Babylonians Are as Good as Dead“But all these nations will someday taunt him and ridicule him with proverbial sayings:‘Woe to the one who accumulates what does not belong to him(How long will this go on?)– he who gets rich by extortion!’
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5Indeed, wine will betray the proud, restless man! His appetite is as big as Sheol’s; like death, he is never satisfied. He gathers all the nations; he seizes all peoples.
7Your creditors will suddenly attack; those who terrify you will spring into action, and they will rob you.
9The one who builds his house by unjust gain is as good as dead. He does this so he can build his nest way up high and escape the clutches of disaster.
10Your schemes will bring shame to your house. Because you destroyed many nations, you will self-destruct.
8The one who increases his wealth by increasing interest gathers it for someone who is gracious to the needy.
16The one who oppresses the poor to increase his own gain and the one who gives to the rich– both end up only in poverty.
13Judgment on Jehoiakim“‘Sure to be judged is the king who builds his palace using injustice and treats people unfairly while adding its upper rooms. He makes his countrymen work for him for nothing. He does not pay them for their labor.
14He says,“I will build myself a large palace with spacious upper rooms.” He cuts windows in its walls, panels it with cedar, and paints its rooms red.
16If he piles up silver like dust and stores up clothing like mounds of clay,
7“Look, here is the man who would not make God his protector! He trusted in his great wealth and was confident about his plans to destroy others.”
6Surely people go through life as mere ghosts. Surely they accumulate worthless wealth without knowing who will eventually haul it away.”
10Covetousness The one who loves money will never be satisfied with money, he who loves wealth will never be satisfied with his income. This also is futile.
11When someone’s prosperity increases, those who consume it also increase; so what does its owner gain, except that he gets to see it with his eyes?
18He gives back the ill-gotten gain without assimilating it; he will not enjoy the wealth from his commerce.
19For he has oppressed the poor and abandoned them; he has seized a house which he did not build.
20For he knows no satisfaction in his appetite; he does not let anything he desires escape.
27Because he covered his face with fat, and made his hips bulge with fat,
28he lived in ruined towns and in houses where no one lives, where they are ready to crumble into heaps.
29He will not grow rich, and his wealth will not endure, nor will his possessions spread over the land.
15“Woe to you who force your neighbor to drink wine– you who make others intoxicated by forcing them to drink from the bowl of your furious anger, so you can look at their naked bodies.
11Therefore, because you make the poor pay taxes on their crops and exact a grain tax from them, you will not live in the houses you built with chiseled stone, nor will you drink the wine from the fine vineyards you planted.
5Is not your wickedness great and is there no end to your iniquity?
6“For you took pledges from your brothers for no reason, and you stripped the clothing from the naked.
7There is one who pretends to be rich and yet has nothing; another pretends to be poor and yet possesses great wealth.
12Each one says,‘Come on, I’ll get some wine! Let’s guzzle some beer! Tomorrow will be just like today! We’ll have everything we want!’
12oppresses the poor and the needy, commits robbery, does not give back what was given in pledge, prays to idols, performs abominable acts,
13engages in usury and charges interest. Will he live? He will not! Because he has done all these abominable deeds he will certainly die. He will bear the responsibility for his own death.
21So it is with the one who stores up riches for himself, but is not rich toward God.”
6They trust in their wealth and boast in their great riches.
11The person who gathers wealth by unjust means is like the partridge that broods over eggs but does not hatch them. Before his life is half over he will lose his ill-gotten gains. At the end of his life it will be clear he was a fool.”
16The prince who is a great oppressor lacks wisdom, but the one who hates unjust gain will prolong his days.
7The Lord Refutes Israel’s False Claim of Innocence The businessmen love to cheat; they use dishonest scales.
2God gives a man riches, property, and wealth so that he lacks nothing that his heart desires, yet God does not enable him to enjoy the fruit of his labor– instead, someone else enjoys it! This is fruitless and a grave misfortune.
11Wealth gained quickly will dwindle away, but the one who gathers it little by little will become rich.
2Yet he too is wise and he will bring disaster; he does not retract his decree. He will attack the wicked nation, and the nation that helps those who commit sin.
28A flood will carry off his house, rushing waters on the day of God’s wrath.
12Woe to the one who builds a city by bloodshed– he who starts a town by unjust deeds.
26All day long he has craved greedily, but the righteous gives and does not hold back.
22The stingy person hastens after riches and does not know that poverty will overtake him.
14So Death will open up its throat, and open wide its mouth; Zion’s dignitaries and masses will descend into it, including those who revel and celebrate within her.
22In the fullness of his sufficiency, distress overtakes him. The full force of misery will come upon him.
19The one who works his land will be satisfied with food, but whoever chases daydreams will have his fill of poverty.
20A faithful person will have an abundance of blessings, but the one who hastens to gain riches will not go unpunished.
10“I will not overlook, O sinful house, the dishonest gain you have hoarded away, or the smaller-than-standard measure I hate so much.
14“It’s worthless! It’s worthless!” says the buyer, but when he goes on his way, he boasts.
6You have planted much, but have harvested little. You eat, but are never filled. You drink, but are still thirsty. You put on clothes, but are not warm. Those who earn wages end up with holes in their money bags.’”
4In that day people will sing this taunt song to you– they will mock you with this lament:‘We are completely destroyed; they sell off the property of my people. How they remove it from me! They assign our fields to the conqueror.’
17The one who loves pleasure will be a poor person; whoever loves wine and anointing oil will not be rich.
10They mock kings and laugh at rulers. They laugh at every fortified city; they build siege ramps and capture them.
3Should people remain silent at your idle talk, and should no one rebuke you when you mock?