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Your riches are corrupted and your garments are moth-eaten. Your gold and your silver are corroded, and their corrosion will be for a testimony against you and will eat your flesh like fire. You have laid up your treasure in the last days. Behold, the wages of the laborers who mowed your fields, which you have kept back by fraud, cry out, and the cries of those who reaped have entered into the ears of the Lord of Armies.[a]

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  1. 5:4 Greek: Sabaoth (for Hebrew: Tze’va’ot)

Your wealth has rotted, and moths have eaten your clothes.(A) 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.(B) Look! The wages you failed to pay the workers(C) who mowed your fields are crying out against you. The cries(D) of the harvesters have reached the ears of the Lord Almighty.(E)

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