James 5:4 - Easy To Read Version

⁴ People worked in your fields, but you did not pay them. Those people are crying out against you. Those people harvested your crops. Now the Lord (God) of heaven’s armies {\cf2\super [24]} has heard the things they are shouting.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁴ 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

⁴ [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)

⁴ 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

⁴ 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

⁴ 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

⁴ 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.

James 5:4 Tagairtí Cros

Genesis 4:10

Then the Lord said, “What have you done? {You killed your brother!} His blood is like a voice shouting to me from the ground.

Job 34:28

Those bad people hurt poor people,\par and made them cry to God for help.\par And God hears that cry for help.\par

Job 7:2

Man is like a slave who wants the\par cool shade after hard work on a hot day.\par Man is like a hired worker\par waiting for payday.\par

Psalm 9:12

The Lord remembered the people who\par went to him for help. {\cf2\super [50]} \par Those poor people cried for help.\par And the Lord didn’t forget them.\par

Exodus 22:27

If that person doesn’t have his coat, then he will have nothing to cover his body. He will get cold in his sleep. And if he cries to me, I will hear him. I will listen, because I am kind.

Exodus 3:9

I have heard the cries of the people of Israel. I have seen the way the Egyptians have made life hard for them.

Isaiah 1:9

\{This is true,\} but the Lord All-Powerful did allow a few people to continue living. We were not completely destroyed like the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah. {\cf2\super [6]}

Isaiah 5:7

The field of grapes that belongs to the Lord All-Powerful is the nation of Israel. The grapevine—the plant the Lord loves—is the man of Judah. {\cf2\super [48]}

Isaiah 5:9

The Lord All-Powerful said this to me, and I heard him, “There are many houses now. But I promise that all the houses will be destroyed. There are nice, big houses now. But those houses will be empty.

Jeremiah 22:13

It will be very bad for King Jehoiakim.\par He is doing bad things\par so he can build his palace. {\cf2\super [179]} \par He is cheating people\par so he can build rooms upstairs.\par He is making his own people\par work for nothing.\par He is not paying them for their work.\par

Leviticus 19:13

“You must not do bad things to your neighbor. You must not rob {him}. You must not hold a hired worker’s salary all night until morning. [338]

Habakkuk 2:11

The stones of the walls will cry out against you. Even the wooden rafters {\cf2\super [9]} in your own house will agree that you are wrong.

Malachi 3:5

Then I will come to you—and I will do the right thing. I will be like a person that is ready to tell the judge about the bad things people did. Some people do evil magic. Some people do the sin of adultery. {\cf2\super [19]} Some people make false promises. Some people cheat their workers—they don’t pay them the money they promised. People don’t help widows and orphans. {\cf2\super [20]} People don’t help strangers. People don’t respect me!” The Lord All-Powerful said these things.

Matthew 9:37

Jesus said to his followers, “There are many, many people to harvest (save). But there are only a few workers to help harvest them.

Luke 18:7

God’s people shout to him night and day. God will always give his people what is right. God will not be slow to answer his people.

Romans 9:29

It is like Isaiah said:

Deuteronomy 15:9

“Don’t ever refuse to help someone simply because the seventh year, the year for canceling debts, is near. Don’t let an evil thought like that enter your mind. You must never have bad thoughts about a person that needs help. You must not refuse to help him. If you don’t help that poor person, then he will complain to the Lord against you. And the Lord will find you guilty of sin.

Colossians 4:1

Masters, give the things that are good and fair to your servants. Remember that you have a Master in heaven.