James 5:4

Catholic Public Domain Version

Consider the pay of the workers who reaped your fields: it has been misappropriated by you; it cries out. And their cry has entered into the ears of the Lord of hosts.

Cross References

Genesis 4:10

And he said to him: "What have you done? The voice of your brother's blood cries out to me from the land.

Job 34:28

so that they caused the outcry of the needy to reach him, and he heard the voice of the poor.

Job 7:2

Just as a servant desires the shade, and just as the hired hand looks forward to the end of his work,

Psalm 9:12

Sing a psalm to the Lord, who dwells in Zion. Announce his study among the Gentiles.

Exodus 22:27

For it is all that he has to cover himself, to clothe his body; nor does he have anything else in which to sleep. If he cries out to me, I will hear him, because I am compassionate.

Exodus 3:9

And so, the outcry of the sons of Israel has come to me. And I have seen their affliction, with which they are oppressed by the Egyptians.

Isaiah 1:9

If the Lord of hosts had not bequeathed us offspring, we would have been like Sodom, and we would have been comparable to Gomorrah.

Isaiah 5:7

For the vineyard of the Lord of hosts is the house of Israel. And the man of Judah is his delightful seedling. And I expected that he would do judgment, and behold iniquity, and that he would do justice, and behold an outcry.

Isaiah 5:9

These things are in my ears, says the Lord of hosts. Otherwise, many houses, great and beautiful, will become desolate, without an inhabitant.

Jeremiah 22:13

Woe to one who builds his house with injustice and his upper rooms without judgment, who oppresses his friend without cause and does not pay him his wages.

Leviticus 19:13

You shall not slander your neighbor, nor shall you oppress him by violence. The wages of a hired hand, you shall not delay with you until tomorrow.

Habakkuk 2:11

For the stone will cry out from the wall, and the wood that is between the joints of the building will respond.

Malachi 3:5

And I will approach you in judgment, and I will be a swift witness against evil-doers, and adulterers, and perjurers, and those who cheat the hired hand in his wages, the widows and the orphans, and who oppress the traveler, and who have not feared me, says the Lord of hosts.

Matthew 9:37

Then he said to his disciples: "The harvest indeed is great, but the laborers are few.

Luke 18:7

So then, will not God grant the vindication of his elect, who cry out to him day and night? Or will he continue to endure them?

Romans 9:29

And it is just as Isaiah predicted: "Unless the Lord of hosts had bequeathed offspring, we would have become like Sodom, and we would have been made similar to Gomorrah."

Deuteronomy 15:9

Take care, lest perhaps an impious thought might creep within you, and you might say in your heart: 'The seventh year of remission approaches.' And so you might turn your eyes away from your poor brother, unwilling to lend to him what he has asked. If so, then he may cry out against you to the Lord, and it will be a sin for you.

Colossians 4:1

You masters, supply your servants with what is just and equitable, knowing that you, too, have a Master in heaven.