² Your riches have rotted, and your clothes have been eaten by moths. ³ Your gold and silver have ·rusted [corroded], and that ·rust [corrosion] will be a ·proof that you were wrong [^Lwitness/testimony/evidence against you]. It will eat your ·bodies [flesh] like fire. You ·saved [hoarded; stored up] your treasure ·for [or in] the last days [^Cjust before judgment day, when such treasures will be useless]. ⁴ [^LListen; ^TBehold] The ·pay [wages] you ·did not give [defrauded from] the workers who mowed your fields cries out against you [Lev. 19:13; Deut. 24:14–15], and the cries of the ·workers [^Lharvesters] have ·been heard by [^Lreached the ears of] the Lord ·All-Powerful [of Hosts/Armies; ^LSabaoth; ^CGod’s warrior name referring to the angelic army].