Nehemiah 5:1 Cross References - Coverdale

¹ And there arose a greate complaynte of ye people, & of their wyues against their brethren the Iewes.

⁷ And the LORDE sayde: I haue sene the trouble of my people in Egipte & haue herde their crye ouer those that oppresse them. I knowe their sorowe,

²⁵ Yf thou lende money vnto my people that is poore by the, thou shalt not behaue thyself as an vsurer vnto him, nether shalt thou oppresse him with vsury. ²⁶ Yf thou take a garment of thy neghboure to pledge, thou shalt geue it him agayne before the Sonne go downe: ²⁷ for his raymet is his onely couerynge of his skynne: wherin he slepeth. But yf he shall crie vnto me, I wyll heare him: for I am mercifull.

³⁵ Whan thy brother waxeth poore, and falleth in decaye besyde the, thou shalt receaue him as a straunger, or gest, that he maye lyue by the: ³⁶ and thou shalt take no vsury of him, ner more then thou hast geue, but shalt feare thy God, that thy brother maye lyue besydes the. ³⁷ For thou shalt not lende him yi money vpon vsury, ner delyuer him thy meate vpon vauntage.

⁷ Whan one of thy brethre is waxed poore in eny cite within thy londe, which ye LORDE yi God shal geue ye, thou shalt not harden thine hert, ner withdrawe thine hande from thy poore brother: ⁸ but shalt open thine hande vnto him, and lende him, acordinge as he hath nede. ⁹ Bewarre, that there be not a poynte of Belial in thine hert, that thou woldest saye: The seuenth yeare, the yeare of Fredome is at honde. For yf thou lokest not fredly vpo thy poore brother, and geuest him nothinge then shall he crye ouer the vnto the LORDE, and it shall be synne vnto the: ¹⁰ But thou shalt geue him, and let it not greue thine hert that thou geuest him. For because of it, shall the LORDE thy God blesse the in all thy workes, and in all that thou puttest thine hande vnto. ¹¹ The londe shal neuer be without poore, therfore commaunde I the and saye, that thou open thine hande vnto thy brother, which is neady and poore in thy londe.

³⁸ But yf case be that my londe crie agaynst me, or yt the forowes therof make eny complaynte: ³⁹ yf I haue eaten the frutes therof vnpayed for, yee yf I haue greued eny of the plow men:

²⁸ In so moch that they haue caused ye voyce of the poore to come vnto him, & now he heareth the coplaynte of soch as are in necessite.

⁷ As for the vynyarde of the LORDE of hoostes it is the house of Israel, and whole Iuda his fayre plantinge. Of these he loked for equyte, but se there is wronge: for rightuousnesse, lo, It is but misery.

⁷ But shall not God also delyuer his chosen, that crye vnto hi daye and night, though he differre the?

²⁶ And on the nexte daye he shewed himself vnto them as they stroue together, and wolde haue set them at one agayne, and sayde: Syrs, ye are brethren, why hurte ye one another?

⁶ but one brother goeth to lawe with another, and that before the vnbeleuers? ⁷ Now therfore is there vtterly a faute amoge you, that ye go to lawe one with another. Why rather suffre ye not wronge? Why suffre ye not youre selues rather to be defrauded? ⁸ but ye youre selues do wroge and defraude, and that euen the brethre.

⁴ Beholde, the hyre of the labourers which haue reped downe youre feldes (which hyer is of you kept backe by fraude) cryeth: and the cryes of the which haue reped, are entred in to the eares of the LORDE Sabaoth.