James 5:4

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James 5:4

Behold, the hire of the laborers reaping your fields cry out, being kept back by you. And the cries of those who have reaped have entered into the ears of the Lord of hosts.

Leviticus 19:13

You shall not defraud your neighbor nor rob him. The wages of him who is hired shall not stay with you until the morning.

Romans 9:29

And as Isaiah said before, "Unless the Lord of hosts had left us a seed, we would have been as Sodom, and would have been like Gomorrah."

Jeremiah 22:13

Woe to him who builds his house by unrighteousness and his upper rooms without justice; his neighbor serves without pay, and he does not give him for his work;

And I will come near you to judgment. And I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers, and against the adulterers, and against false swearers, and against those who extort from the hired laborer's wages, and turning away the widow, and the orphan, the alien, and not fearing Me, says Jehovah of Hosts.

Genesis 4:10

And He said, What have you done? The voice of your brother's blood cries to Me from the ground.

Exodus 2:23-24

And it happened after many days the king of Egypt died. And the sons of Israel sighed because of the bondage, and they cried, and their cry came up to God because of the bondage.

Exodus 3:9

And now behold, the cry of the sons of Israel has come to Me. And I have also seen the oppression with which the Egyptians oppress them.

Exodus 22:22-24

You shall not afflict any widow or fatherless child.

Exodus 22:27

For that is his covering only, it is his clothing for his skin. In what shall he sleep? And it will be, when he cries to Me, I will hear, for I am gracious.

Deuteronomy 24:14-15

You shall not oppress a hired servant who is poor and needy, of your brothers, or of your strangers that are in your land within your gates.

Job 24:10-11

They cause him to go naked without clothing, and they take away the sheaves from the hungry.

Job 31:38-39

If my lands cry against me, or its furrows weep together;

Job 34:28

so as to cause the cry of the poor to come to Him, for He hears the cry of the afflicted.

Psalm 9:12

For He remembers them, the seekers of bloodshed; He forgets not the cry of the humble.

Isaiah 1:9

Except Jehovah of Hosts had left us a very small remnant, we would be as Sodom; we would be like Gomorrah.

Isaiah 5:7

For the vineyard of Jehovah of Hosts is the house of Israel, and the men of Judah His pleasant plant; and He looked for justice, but behold bloody iniquity; for righteousness, but behold a cry!

Habakkuk 2:11

For the stone shall cry out of the wall, and the beam out of the timber shall answer it.

Luke 18:7

And shall not God avenge His own elect who cry day and night to Him, though He has been long-suffering over them?

Colossians 4:1

Masters, give to your slaves what is just and equal, knowing that you also have a Master in Heaven.

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Summary

James 5:4

Behold, the hire of the labourers who have reaped down your fields, which is of you kept back by fraud, crieth: and the cries of them which have reaped are entered into the ears of the Lord of sabaoth.

The hire

The cries

General references

1 Corinthians 6:8

Bible References

The hire

You shall not defraud your neighbor nor rob him. The wages of him who is hired shall not stay with you until the morning.

You shall not oppress a hired servant who is poor and needy, of your brothers, or of your strangers that are in your land within your gates.

They cause him to go naked without clothing, and they take away the sheaves from the hungry.

If my lands cry against me, or its furrows weep together;

For the vineyard of Jehovah of Hosts is the house of Israel, and the men of Judah His pleasant plant; and He looked for justice, but behold bloody iniquity; for righteousness, but behold a cry!

Woe to him who builds his house by unrighteousness and his upper rooms without justice; his neighbor serves without pay, and he does not give him for his work;

For the stone shall cry out of the wall, and the beam out of the timber shall answer it.

Masters, give to your slaves what is just and equal, knowing that you also have a Master in Heaven.

The cries

And He said, What have you done? The voice of your brother's blood cries to Me from the ground.

And it happened after many days the king of Egypt died. And the sons of Israel sighed because of the bondage, and they cried, and their cry came up to God because of the bondage.

And now behold, the cry of the sons of Israel has come to Me. And I have also seen the oppression with which the Egyptians oppress them.

You shall not afflict any widow or fatherless child.

At his day you shall give him his hire, neither shall the sun go down on it. For he is poor and sets his heart on it; lest he cry against you to Jehovah, and it shall be sin to you.

so as to cause the cry of the poor to come to Him, for He hears the cry of the afflicted.

For He remembers them, the seekers of bloodshed; He forgets not the cry of the humble.

And shall not God avenge His own elect who cry day and night to Him, though He has been long-suffering over them?

General references

And if you sell anything to your neighbor, or buy from your neighbor's hand, you shall not oppress one another.

They press out oil between their walls; they tread their winepresses, and still suffer thirst.

For they eat the bread of wickedness and drink the wine of violence.

Shall I not visit for these things? says Jehovah. Shall not My soul be avenged on such a nation as this?

And I will cause the noise of your songs to cease; and the sound of your harps shall be heard no more.

So also as it was in the days of Lot: they ate, they drank, they bought, they sold, they planted, they built;

But you do wrong and defraud, and these things to brothers.