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James 5:4

Look, the wages you withheld from the workmen who mowed your fields are crying out against you. The cries of the harvesters have reached the ears of the Lord of Hosts.

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ASV

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.

KJV

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.

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26 tagged words
OriginalTransliterationMeaningWord study
ἰδοὺidouBeholdG2400 →
ὁhotheG3588 →
μισθὸςmisthoswageG3408 →
τῶνtōnof theG3588 →
ἐργατῶνergatōnworkmenG2040 →
τῶνtōnwhoG3588 →
ἀμησάντωνamēsantōnhaving harvestedG270 →
τὰςtastheG3588 →
χώραςchōrasfieldsG5561 →
ὑμῶνhumōnof youG4771 →
ὁhowhichG3588 →
ἀπεστερημένοςapesterēmenoskept backG650 →
ἀφ᾽aph᾽byG575 →
ὑμῶνhumōnyouG4771 →
κράζειkrazeicries outG2896 →
καὶkaiandG2532 →
αἱhaitheG3588 →
βοαὶboaicriesG995 →
τῶνtōnof thoseG3588 →
θερισάντωνtherisantōnhaving harvestedG2325 →
εἰςeisintoG1519 →
τὰtatheG3588 →
ὦταōtaearsG3775 →
κυρίουkuriouof [the] LordG2962 →
σαβαὼθsabaōthof HostsG4519 →
εἰσεληλύθασιν.eiselēluthasinhave entered.G1525 →

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Psalms 12:5“For the cause of the oppressed and for the groaning of the needy, I will now arise,” says the LORD. “I will bring safety to him who yearns.”Leviticus 19:13You must not defraud your neighbor or rob him. You must not withhold until morning the wages due a hired hand.Jeremiah 22:13“Woe to him who builds his palace by unrighteousness, and his upper rooms without justice, who makes his countrymen serve without pay, and fails to pay their wages,Deuteronomy 24:14–15Do not oppress a hired hand who is poor and needy, whether he is a brother or a foreigner residing in one of your towns.Exodus 2:23After a long time, the king of Egypt died. The Israelites groaned and cried out under their burden of slavery, and their cry for deliverance from bondage ascended to God.Proverbs 3:27Do not withhold good from the deserving when it is within your power to act.Deuteronomy 24:15You are to pay his wages each day before sunset, because he is poor and depends on them. Otherwise he may cry out to the LORD against you, and you will be guilty of sin.Romans 9:29It is just as Isaiah foretold: “Unless the Lord of Hosts had left us descendants, we would have become like Sodom, we would have resembled Gomorrah.”Malachi 3:5“Then I will draw near to you for judgment. And I will be a swift witness against sorcerers and adulterers and perjurers, against oppressors of the widowed and fatherless, and against those who defraud laborers of their wages and deny justice to the foreigner but do not fear Me,” says the LORD of Hosts.Job 24:10–11Without clothing, they wander about naked. They carry the sheaves, but still go hungry.Ecclesiastes 4:1Again I looked, and I considered all the oppression taking place under the sun. I saw the tears of the oppressed, and they had no comforter; the power lay in the hands of their oppressors, and there was no comforter.Exodus 22:27because his cloak is the only covering he has for his body. What else will he sleep in? And if he cries out to Me, I will hear, for I am compassionate.Genesis 4:10“What have you done?” replied the LORD. “The voice of your brother’s blood cries out to Me from the ground.Exodus 3:9And now the cry of the Israelites has reached Me, and I have seen how severely the Egyptians are oppressing them.Job 34:28They caused the cry of the poor to come before Him, and He heard the outcry of the afflicted.Job 31:39if I have devoured its produce without payment or broken the spirit of its tenants,Zechariah 7:10Do not oppress the widow or the fatherless, the foreigner or the poor. And do not plot evil in your hearts against one another.’Exodus 22:23If you do mistreat them, and they cry out to Me in distress, I will surely hear their cry.

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