James 5:4

The Passion Translation

Listen! Can’t you hear the cries of the laborers over the wages you fraudulently held back from those who worked for you? The cries for justice of those you’ve cheated have reached the ears of the Lord of armies!

Cross References

Genesis 4:10

Yahweh said, “Listen—the voice of your brother’s blood is crying out to me from the ground! What have you done?

Psalm 9:12

He tracks down killers and avenges bloodshed, but he will never forget the ones forgotten by others, hearing every one of their cries for justice.

Isaiah 1:9

If the Lord of Angel Armies had not left us survivors, our fate would have been the same as Sodom and Gomorrah!

Isaiah 5:7

For Israel is this vineyard of Yahweh, the Commander of Angel Armies, and the people of Judah are the garden of his delight. When he waited for a crop of justice, he got a harvest of bloodshed! When he waited to reap fairness, he heard only the cries of victims.

Isaiah 5:9

This is what Yahweh, the Commander of Angel Armies, said in my ears: “Truly, many of your houses will become devastated and your large, impressive mansions will have no one living in them!

Jeremiah 22:13

“Doomed is the one who builds his house with unrighteousness, and the upper chambers of his palace with injustice, who compels his fellow man to work for nothing and pays him no wages for his hard labor.

Matthew 9:37

He turned to his disciples and said, “The harvest is huge and ripe! But there are not enough harvesters to bring it all in.

Luke 18:7

Don’t you know that God, the true judge, will grant justice to all his chosen ones who cry out to him night and day? He will pour out his Spirit upon them. He will not delay to answer you and give you what you ask for.

Romans 9:29

Just as Isaiah saw it coming and prophesied: If the Lord God had not left us a remnant, we would have been destroyed like Sodom and left desolate like Gomorrah!

Colossians 4:1

Employers, treat your workers with equality and justice as you know that you also have a Lord and Master in heaven who is watching you.