James 5:4

Bible in Basic English 1965

See, the money which you falsely kept back from the workers cutting the grass in your field, is crying out against you; and the cries of those who took in your grain have come to the ears of the Lord of armies.

Cross References

Genesis 4:10

And he said, What have you done? the voice of your brother's blood is crying to me from the earth.

Job 34:28

So that the cry of the poor might come up to him, and the prayer of those in need come to his ears.

Job 7:2

As a servant desiring the shades of evening, and a workman looking for his payment:

Psalm 9:12

When he makes search for blood, he has them in his memory: he is not without thought for the cry of the poor.

Exodus 22:27

For it is the only thing he has for covering his skin; what is he to go to sleep in? and when his cry comes up to me, I will give ear, for my mercy is great.

Exodus 3:9

For now, truly, the cry of the children of Israel has come to me, and I have seen the cruel behaviour of the Egyptians to them.

Isaiah 1:9

If the Lord of armies had not kept some at least of us safe, we would have been like Sodom, and the fate of Gomorrah would have been ours.

Isaiah 5:7

For the vine-garden of the Lord of armies is the people of Israel, and the men of Judah are the plant of his delight: and he was looking for upright judging, and there was blood; for righteousness, and there was a cry for help.

Isaiah 5:9

The Lord of armies has said to me secretly, Truly, numbers of great and fair houses will be waste, with no one living in them.

Jeremiah 22:13

A curse is on him who is building his house by wrongdoing, and his rooms by doing what is not right; who makes use of his neighbour without payment, and gives him nothing for his work;

Leviticus 19:13

Do not be cruel to your neighbour or take what is his; do not keep back a servant's payment from him all night till the morning.

Habakkuk 2:11

For the stone will give a cry out of the wall, and it will be answered by the board out of the woodwork.

Malachi 3:5

And I will come near to you for judging; I will quickly be a witness against the wonder-workers, against those who have been untrue in married life, against those who take false oaths; against those who keep back from the servant his payment, and who are hard on the widow and the child without a father, who do not give his rights to the man from a strange country, and have no fear of me, says the Lord of armies.

Matthew 9:37

Then he said to his disciples, There is much grain but not enough men to get it in.

Luke 18:7

And will not God do right in the cause of his saints, whose cries come day and night to his ears, though he is long in doing it?

Romans 9:29

And, as Isaiah had said before, If the Lord of armies had not given us a seed, we would have been like Sodom and Gomorrah.

Deuteronomy 15:9

And see that there is no evil thought in your heart, moving you to say to yourself, The seventh year, the year of forgiveness is near; and so looking coldly on your poor countryman you give him nothing; and he will make an outcry to the Lord against you, and it will be judged as sin in you.

Colossians 4:1

Masters, give your servants what is right and equal, conscious that you have a Master in heaven.