Nehemiah 5:1 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

¹ Now there was a great outcry of the people and of their wives against their Jewish kin.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹ And there was a great cry of the people and of their wives against their brethren the Jews.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹ 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)

¹ Then there arose a great cry of the people and of their wives against their brethren the Jews.

Common English Bible

¹ Then there was a great protest of the people and their wives against their fellow Jews.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹ 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

¹ 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 brothers nor my servants nor the men of the guard who followed me ever took off our clothes; each kept his weapon in his right hand.

Job 34:28

so that they caused the cry of the poor to come to him, and he heard the cry of the afflicted—

Exodus 3:7

Then the Lord said, “I have observed the misery of my people who are in Egypt; I have heard their cry on account of their taskmasters. Indeed, I know their sufferings,

Isaiah 5:7

For the vineyard of the Lord of hosts is the house of Israel, and the people of Judah are his cherished garden; he expected justice but saw bloodshed; righteousness but heard a cry!

Jeremiah 34:8

The word that came to Jeremiah from the Lord, after King Zedekiah had made a covenant with all the people in Jerusalem to make a proclamation of liberty to them,

Ezekiel 45:9

“Thus says the Lord God: Enough, O princes of Israel! Put away violence and oppression, and do what is just and right. Cease your evictions of my people, says the Lord God.

Malachi 2:13

And this you do as well: You cover the Lord’s altar with tears, with weeping and groaning because he no longer regards the offering or accepts it with favor at your hand.

Luke 18:7

And will not God grant justice to his chosen ones who cry to him day and night? Will he delay long in helping them?

Acts 7:26

The next day he came to some of them as they were quarreling and tried to reconcile them, saying, ‘Men, you are brothers; why do you wrong each other?’

James 5:4

Listen! The wages of the laborers who mowed your fields, which you kept back by fraud, cry out, and the cries of the harvesters have reached the ears of the Lord of hosts.