James 5:4
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4 Listen! The wages of the laborers who mowed your fields, which you kept back by fraud, cry out, and the cries of the harvesters have reached the ears of the Lord of hosts.(A)
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Leviticus 19:13
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13 “You shall not defraud your neighbor; you shall not steal; and you shall not keep for yourself the wages of a laborer until morning.(A)
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Jeremiah 22:13
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13 Woe to him who builds his house by unrighteousness
and his upper rooms by injustice,
who makes his neighbors work for nothing
and does not give them their wages,(A)
Deuteronomy 24:14-15
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14 “You shall not withhold the wages of poor and needy laborers, whether other Israelites or aliens who reside in your land in one of your towns.(A) 15 You shall pay them their wages daily before sunset, because they are poor and their livelihood depends on them; otherwise they might cry to the Lord against you, and you would incur guilt.(B)
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Romans 9:29
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29 And as Isaiah predicted,
“If the Lord of hosts had not left descendants to us,
we would have fared like Sodom
and been made like Gomorrah.”(A)
Malachi 3:5
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5 Then I will draw near to you for judgment; I will be swift to bear witness against the sorcerers, against the adulterers, against those who swear falsely, against those who oppress the hired workers in their wages, the widow, and the orphan, against those who thrust aside the alien and do not fear me, says the Lord of hosts.(A)
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Job 24:10-11
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10 They go about naked, without clothing;
though hungry, they carry the sheaves;
11 between their terraces[a] they press out oil;
they tread the winepresses but suffer thirst.
Footnotes
- 24.11 Meaning of Heb uncertain
Exodus 22:27
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27 for it may be your neighbor’s only clothing to use as a cover. In what else shall that person sleep? And when your neighbor cries out to me, I will listen, for I am compassionate.
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Luke 18:7
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7 And will not God grant justice to his chosen ones who cry to him day and night? Will he delay long in helping them?
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Psalm 9:12
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12 For he who avenges blood is mindful of them;
he does not forget the cry of the afflicted.(A)
Job 34:28
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28 so that they caused the cry of the poor to come to him,
and he heard the cry of the afflicted—(A)
Exodus 3:9
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9 The cry of the Israelites has now come to me; I have also seen how the Egyptians oppress them.(A)
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Genesis 4:10
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10 And the Lord said, “What have you done? Listen, your brother’s blood is crying out to me from the ground!(A)
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Colossians 4:1
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Habakkuk 2:11
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11 The very stones will cry out from the wall,
and the rafter will respond from the woodwork.
Isaiah 5:7
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7 For the vineyard of the Lord of hosts
is the house of Israel,
and the people of Judah
are his cherished garden;
he expected justice
but saw bloodshed;
righteousness
but heard a cry!(A)
Isaiah 1:9
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9 If the Lord of hosts
had not left us a few survivors,
we would have been like Sodom
and become like Gomorrah.(A)
Job 31:38-39
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38 “If my land has cried out against me
and its furrows have wept together,(A)
39 if I have eaten its yield without payment
and caused the death of its owners,(B)
Exodus 2:23-24
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23 After a long time the king of Egypt died. The Israelites groaned under their slavery and cried out. Their cry for help rose up to God from their slavery.(A) 24 God heard their groaning, and God remembered his covenant with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.(B)
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Exodus 22:22-24
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22 You shall not abuse any widow or orphan.(A) 23 If you do abuse them, when they cry out to me, I will surely heed their cry;(B) 24 my wrath will burn, and I will kill you with the sword, and your wives shall become widows and your children orphans.(C)
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