Nehemiah 5:1 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

Then there arose a great cry of the people and of their wives against their brethren the Jews.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

And there was a great cry of the people and of their wives against their brethren the Jews.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

NOW THERE arose a great cry of the [poor] people and of their wives [driven to borrowing] against their Jewish brethren [the few who could afford to lend].

American Standard Version (1901)

Then there arose a great cry of the people and of their wives against their brethren the Jews.

Common English Bible

Then there was a great protest of the people and their wives against their fellow Jews.

Catholic Public Domain Version

And there occurred a great outcry of the people and their wives against their brothers, the Jews.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

Now there was a great cry of the people, and of their wives against their brethren the Jews.

Nehemiah 5:1 Cross References

Nehemiah 4:23

So neither I, nor my brethren, nor my servants, nor the men of the guard which followed me, none of us put off our clothes, every one went with his weapon to the water.

Job 34:28

So that they caused the cry of the poor to come unto him, And he heard the cry of the afflicted.

Exodus 3:7

And the LORD said, I have surely seen the affliction of my people which are in Egypt, and have heard their cry by reason of their taskmasters; for I know their sorrows;

Isaiah 5:7

For the vineyard of the LORD of hosts is the house of Israel, and the men of Judah his pleasant plant: and he looked for judgement, but behold oppression; for righteousness, but behold a cry.

Jeremiah 34:8

The word that came unto Jeremiah from the LORD, after that the king Zedekiah had made a covenant with all the people which were at Jerusalem, to proclaim liberty unto them;

Ezekiel 45:9

Thus saith the Lord GOD Let it suffice you, O princes of Israel: remove violence and spoil, and execute judgement and justice; take away your exactions from my people, saith the Lord GOD

Malachi 2:13

And this again ye do: ye cover the altar of the LORD with tears, with weeping, and with sighing, insomuch that he regardeth not the offering any more, neither receiveth it with good will at your hand.

Luke 18:7

And shall not God avenge his elect, which cry to him day and night, and he is longsuffering over them?

Acts 7:26

And the day following he appeared unto them as they strove, and would have set them at one again, saying, Sirs, ye are brethren; why do ye wrong one to another?

James 5:4

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