Nehemiah 5:1 - The Scriptures 2009

¹ And there was a great outcry of the people and their wives against their brothers, the Yehuḏim.

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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.

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, none of us took off our garments, each one his weapon even at the water.

Job 34:28

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

Exodus 3:7

And יהוה said, “I have indeed seen the oppression of My people who are in Mitsrayim, and have heard their cry because of their slave-drivers, for I know their sorrows.

Isaiah 5:7

For the vineyard of יהוה of hosts is the house of Yisra’ĕl, and the man of Yehuḏah is His pleasant plant. He looked for right-ruling, but see, oppression; for righteousness, but see, weeping.

Jeremiah 34:8

The word which came to Yirmeyahu from יהוה, after Sovereign Tsiḏqiyahu had made a covenant with all the people who were at Yerushalayim to proclaim release to them:

Ezekiel 45:9

Thus said the Master יהוה, “Enough, you princes of Yisra’ĕl! Put away violence and plundering, and do right-ruling and righteousness, and stop your evictions of My people,” declares the Master יהוה.

Malachi 2:13

And this you have done a second time: you cover the slaughter-place of יהוה with tears, with weeping and crying, because He no longer regards the offering, nor receives it with pleasure from your hands.

Luke 18:7

“And shall Elohim not do right by all means to His own chosen ones who are crying out day and night to Him, and being patient over them?

Acts 7:26

“And the next day he appeared to two of them as they were fighting, and urged them to peace, saying, ‘Men, you are brothers, why do you wrong one another?’

James 5:4

See, the wages of the workmen who mowed your fields, which you kept back, cry out. And the cries of the reapers have reached the ears of יהוה of hosts.