The LORD said, *What have you done? The voice of your brother's blood cries to me from the ground.
James 5:4 - Hebrew Names version (HNV) Behold, the wages of the laborers who mowed your fields, which you have kept back by fraud, cry out, and the cries of those who reaped have entered into the ears of the Lord of Armies. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 Behold, the hire of the labourers who have reaped down your fields, which is of you kept back by fraud, crieth: and the cries of them which have reaped are entered into the ears of the Lord of sabaoth. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition [But] look! [Here are] the wages that you have withheld by fraud from the laborers who have reaped your fields, crying out [for vengeance]; and the cries of the harvesters have come to the ears of the Lord of hosts. American Standard Version (1901) Behold, the hire of the laborers who mowed your fields, which is of you kept back by fraud, crieth out: and the cries of them that reaped have entered into the ears of the Lord of Sabaoth. Common English Bible Listen! Hear the cries of the wages of your field hands. These are the wages you stole from those who harvested your fields. The cries of the harvesters have reached the ears of the Lord of heavenly forces. 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. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version Behold the hire of the labourers, who have reaped down your fields, which by fraud has been kept back by you, crieth: and the cry of them hath entered into the ears of the Lord of sabaoth. |
The LORD said, *What have you done? The voice of your brother's blood cries to me from the ground.
so that they caused the cry of the poor to come to him. He heard the cry of the afflicted.
As a servant who earnestly desires the shadow, as a hireling who looks for his wages,
For he who avenges blood remembers them. He doesn't forget the cry of the afflicted.
for that is his only covering, it is his garment for his skin. What would he sleep in? It will happen, when he cries to me, that I will hear, for I am gracious.
Now, behold, the cry of the children of Yisra'el has come to me. Moreover I have seen the oppression with which the Egyptians oppress them.
Unless the LORD of Armies had left to us a very small remnant, we would have been as Sedom; we would have been like `Amorah.
For the vineyard of the LORD of Armies is the house of Yisra'el, and the men of Yehudah his pleasant plant: and he looked for justice, but, behold, oppression; for righteousness, but, behold, a cry of distress.
In my ears, the LORD of Armies says: *Surely many houses will be desolate, even great and beautiful, unoccupied.
Woe to him who builds his house by unrighteousness, and his chambers by injustice; who uses his neighbor's service without wages, and doesn't give him his hire;
*'You shall not oppress your neighbor, nor rob him. The wages of a hired servant shall not remain with you all night until the morning.
For the stone will cry out of the wall, and the beam out of the woodwork will answer it.
I will come near to you to judgment; and I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers, and against the adulterers, and against the perjurers, and against those who oppress the hireling in his wages, the widow, and the fatherless, and who deprive the foreigner of justice, and don't fear me,* says the LORD of Armies.
Then he said to his talmidim, *The harvest indeed is plentiful, but the laborers are few.
Won't God avenge his chosen ones, who are crying out to him day and night, and yet he exercises patience with them?
As Yeshaiyahu has said before, *Unless the Lord of Armies had left us a seed, we would have become like Sedom, and would have been made like `Amorah.*
Beware that there not be a base thought in your heart, saying, The seventh year, the year of release, is at hand; and your eye be evil against your poor brother, and you give him nothing; and he cry to the LORD against you, and it be sin to you.
Masters, give to your servants that which is just and equal, knowing that you also have a Master in heaven.