5:1 Come now, you rich! Weep and cry aloud 5 over the miseries that are coming on you.
1 sn A quotation from Isa 26:20.
2 sn A quotation from Hab 2:3.
3 tn Grk “brothers.” See note on the phrase “brothers and sisters” in 1:2.
4 sn The term gates is used metaphorically here. The physical referent would be the entrances to the city, but the author uses the term to emphasize the imminence of the judge’s approach.
5 tn Or “wail”; Grk “crying aloud.”