Come now, you rich, weep and howl for your calamities that are coming upon you.

Then they said to one another, Come, let us make bricks and burn them with burning. They had brick for stone, and they had asphalt for mortar.

And they said, Come, let us build ourselves a city, and a tower whose top is in the heavens; let us make a name for ourselves, that we not be scattered abroad over the face of the whole earth.

Come, let Us go down and there confuse their language, that they cannot understand one another's speech.

I said in my heart, Come now, I will test you with mirth; therefore regard pleasure; and this was vanity.

And now I will tell you what I will do to My vineyard; I will take away its hedge, and it shall be burned; and break down its wall, and it shall be trampled down;

Do not boast about tomorrow, for you do not know what a day may bring forth.

They say, Come, let us get wine and binge on strong drink; and tomorrow shall be like today; much more abundant.

And he thought within himself, saying, What shall I do, since I have nowhere to gather my fruits?

And I will say to my soul, Soul, you have many goods laid up for many years; take your ease; eat, drink, and be merry.

And as it is with the people, so it shall be with the priest; as with the servant, so with the master; as with the maid, so it is with her mistress; as with the buyer, so with the seller; as with the lender, so with the borrower; as with the creditor, so with the debtor.

Yea, they are greedy dogs which never have enough. And they are shepherds who cannot understand; they all look to their own way, every one for his own gain, to his own end.

The time has come, the day draws near. Let not the buyer rejoice, nor the seller mourn, for wrath is upon all their multitude.

those who weep as though they did not weep, those who rejoice as though they did not rejoice, those who buy as though they did not possess,