James 5:4

New International Version

Look! The wages you failed to pay the workers who mowed your fields are crying out against you. The cries of the harvesters have reached the ears of the Lord Almighty.

Cross References

Genesis 4:10

The Lord said, “What have you done? Listen! Your brother’s blood cries out to me from the ground.

Job 34:28

They caused the cry of the poor to come before him, so that he heard the cry of the needy.

Job 7:2

Like a slave longing for the evening shadows, or a hired laborer waiting to be paid,

Psalm 9:12

For he who avenges blood remembers; he does not ignore the cries of the afflicted.

Exodus 22:27

because that cloak is the only covering your neighbor has. What else can they sleep in? When they cry out to me, I will hear, for I am compassionate.

Exodus 3:9

And now the cry of the Israelites has reached me, and I have seen the way the Egyptians are oppressing them.

Isaiah 1:9

Unless the Lord Almighty had left us some survivors, we would have become like Sodom, we would have been like Gomorrah.

Isaiah 5:7

The vineyard of the Lord Almighty is the nation of Israel, and the people of Judah are the vines he delighted in. And he looked for justice, but saw bloodshed; for righteousness, but heard cries of distress.

Isaiah 5:9

The Lord Almighty has declared in my hearing: “Surely the great houses will become desolate, the fine mansions left without occupants.

Jeremiah 22:13

“Woe to him who builds his palace by unrighteousness, his upper rooms by injustice, making his own people work for nothing, not paying them for their labor.

Leviticus 19:13

“ ‘Do not defraud or rob your neighbor. “ ‘Do not hold back the wages of a hired worker overnight.

Habakkuk 2:11

The stones of the wall will cry out, and the beams of the woodwork will echo it.

Malachi 3:5

“So I will come to put you on trial. I will be quick to testify against sorcerers, adulterers and perjurers, against those who defraud laborers of their wages, who oppress the widows and the fatherless, and deprive the foreigners among you of justice, but do not fear me,” says the Lord Almighty.

Matthew 9:37

Then he said to his disciples, “The harvest is plentiful but the workers are few.

Luke 18:7

And will not God bring about justice for his chosen ones, who cry out to him day and night? Will he keep putting them off?

Romans 9:29

It is just as Isaiah said previously: “Unless the Lord Almighty had left us descendants, we would have become like Sodom, we would have been like Gomorrah.”

Deuteronomy 15:9

Be careful not to harbor this wicked thought: “The seventh year, the year for canceling debts, is near,” so that you do not show ill will toward the needy among your fellow Israelites and give them nothing. They may then appeal to the Lord against you, and you will be found guilty of sin.

Colossians 4:1

Masters, provide your slaves with what is right and fair, because you know that you also have a Master in heaven.