James 5:4 Cross References - Thomson

⁴ Behold the wages of the labourers who have reaped your fields, which you have withholden, raise a cry; and the outcries of these reapers have reached the ears of the Lord of Sabaoth.

¹⁰ Then the Lord said, "What hast thou done? The voice of thy brother's blood crieth to me out of the ground.

²³ And after those many years the king of Egypt died and the Israelites groaned under their labours and raised a loud outcry; and their cry on account of their labours ascended up to God. ²⁴ And God heard their groans. And God remembered his covenant which he had made with Abraham, Isaak and Jacob.

⁹ And now behold the cry of the children of Israel hath reached me and I have seen the oppression with which the Egyptians oppress them,

²² A widow and an orphan you shall not afflict. ²³ If you in anywise afflict them and they cry to me, I will hear their voice ²⁴ and my wrath will be kindled, and I will slay you with the sword, and your wives shall be widows and your children fatherless.

²⁷ for it is his covering. This mantle is the only covering of his nakedness. In what can he sleep? If therefore he cry to me, I will hear him; for I am merciful.

¹³ thou shalt nut injure thy neighbour, nor commit rapine; nor shall the wages of a hireling remain with thee till the morning.

¹⁴ Thou shalt not withhold the wages of a poor and needy man, whether he be one of thy brethren, or of the strangers who are in thy cities. ¹⁵ Thou shalt pay him his wages on the very day: let not the sun set upon it. For he is poor, and dependeth on it; and he will cry to the Lord against thee, and it will be a sin in thee.

¹⁰ They have by injustice caused some to be naked; and robbed the hungry of their morsel. ¹¹ They have entrapped some unjustly in straits, and the path of justice they did not know.

³⁸ if ever my ground hath cried out against me, and the furrows thereof joined in the complaint: ³⁹ if I have eaten alone the strength thereof without money, and by rapine caused the heart of the owner of the soil to grieve:

²⁸ when they cause the cry of the poor to ascend to him, he should hearken to the cry of the poor."

¹² for in making inquisition for blood, he had them in remembrance; he forgot not the prayer of the distressed.

⁹ Had not the Lord of Hosts left us a seed, we should have been as Sodom and made like Gomorra.

⁷ For the vineyard of the Lord of Hosts is the house of Israel; and the men of Juda his beloved plant. I waited for their executing justice, but they committed injustice, and promoted not righteousness, but an outcry.

¹³ With regard to him who is building himself a house, but not with righteousness, and lofty stories, but not with justice: he useth the service of his neighbour for nothing, and will not pay him his wages.

¹¹ peoples and thy soul hath sinned; for a stone out of a wall will cry out, and a Worm from a beam will proclaim these things.

⁵ And I will bring to judgment before you and be a swift witness against sorcerers, and against adulteresses, and against them who swear by my name to a falsehood, and against them who deprive the hireling of his wages, and them who oppress the widow, and them who buffet the fatherless, and them who turn aside the cause of the stranger, and them who do not fear me, saith the Lord Almighty.

⁷ And will not God vindicate the cause of his chosen, who are crying to him day and night"? Will he linger in their cause?

²⁹ therefore as Esaias said. "Had not the Lord of hosts left us a seed, we must have been like Sodom and become like Gomorrah."

¹ Masters, render to your servants what is just and equitable; knowing that you have a master in heaven.