So neither I nor my brothers nor my servants nor the men of the guard who followed me, none of us took off our clothes; each kept his weapon at his right hand.
Nehemiah 5:1 - English Standard Version 2016 Now there arose a great outcry of the people and of their wives against their Jewish brothers. 更多版本King James Version (Oxford) 1769 And there was a great cry of the people and of their wives against their brethren the Jews. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition NOW THERE arose a great cry of the [poor] people and of their wives [driven to borrowing] against their Jewish brethren [the few who could afford to lend]. American Standard Version (1901) Then there arose a great cry of the people and of their wives against their brethren the Jews. Common English Bible Then there was a great protest of the people and their wives against their fellow Jews. Catholic Public Domain Version And there occurred a great outcry of the people and their wives against their brothers, the Jews. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version Now there was a great cry of the people, and of their wives against their brethren the Jews. |
So neither I nor my brothers nor my servants nor the men of the guard who followed me, none of us took off our clothes; each kept his weapon at his right hand.
so that they caused the cry of the poor to come to him, and he heard the cry of the afflicted—
Then the Lord said, “I have surely seen the affliction of my people who are in Egypt and have heard their cry because of their taskmasters. I know their sufferings,
For the vineyard of the Lord of hosts is the house of Israel, and the men of Judah are his pleasant planting; and he looked for justice, but behold, bloodshed; for righteousness, but behold, an outcry!
The word that came to Jeremiah from the Lord, after King Zedekiah had made a covenant with all the people in Jerusalem to make a proclamation of liberty to them,
“Thus says the Lord God: Enough, O princes of Israel! Put away violence and oppression, and execute justice and righteousness. Cease your evictions of my people, declares the Lord God.
And this second thing you do. You cover the Lord’s altar with tears, with weeping and groaning because he no longer regards the offering or accepts it with favor from your hand.
And will not God give justice to his elect, who cry to him day and night? Will he delay long over them?
And on the following day he appeared to them as they were quarreling and tried to reconcile them, saying, ‘Men, you are brothers. Why do you wrong each other?’
Behold, the wages of the laborers who mowed your fields, which you kept back by fraud, are crying out against you, and the cries of the harvesters have reached the ears of the Lord of hosts.