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The cries of those who gather in your crops have reached the ears of God, the Lord Almighty. </title><link rel="canonical" href="https://biblehub.com/catholic/james/5-4.htm" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="/15002new8.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /></head><body><div id="fx"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx2"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="30" scrolling="no" src="../vmenus/james/5-4.htm" align="left" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div><div id="blnk"></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable"><tr><td><div id="fx5"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx6"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="245" scrolling="no" src="/bmcc/james/5-4.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable3"><tr><td><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center" id="announce"><tr><td><div id="l1"><div id="breadcrumbs"><a href="/catholic/">Bible</a> > <a href="/gntd/james/1.htm">James</a> > <a href="/gntd/james/5.htm">Chapter 5</a> > Verse 4</div><div id="anc"><iframe src="/anc.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></div><div id="anc2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/anc2.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div><div id="ad1"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/ad1.htm" width="100%" height="48" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table><div id="movebox2"><table border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div id="topheading"><a href="../james/5-3.htm" title="James 5:3">◄</a> James 5:4 <a href="../james/5-5.htm" title="James 5:5">►</a></div></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheadingv"><b>Verse</b><a href="/nabre/james/5.htm" class="clickchap" style="color:#552200" title="Click any translation name for full chapter">  (Click for Chapter)</a></div><div id="par"><span class="versiontext"><a href="/gntd/james/5.htm">Good News Translation</a></span><br />You have not paid any wages to those who work in your fields. Listen to their complaints! The cries of those who gather in your crops have reached the ears of God, the Lord Almighty. <p><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nrsvce/james/5.htm">New Revised Standard Version</a></span><br />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.<p><span class="versiontext"><a href="/cevd/james/5.htm">Contemporary English Version</a></span><br />You refused to pay the people who worked in your fields, and now their unpaid wages are shouting out against you. The Lord All-Powerful has surely heard the cries of the workers who harvested your crops. <p><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nabre/james/5.htm">New American Bible</a></span><br />Behold, the wages you withheld from the workers who harvested your fields are crying aloud, and the cries of the harvesters have reached the ears of the Lord of hosts.<p><span class="versiontext"><a href="/drbc/james/5.htm">Douay-Rheims Bible</a></span><br />Behold the hire of the labourers who have reaped down your fields, which by fraud has been kept back by you, crieth: and the cry of them hath entered into the ears of the Lord of Sabaoth.<div class="vheading2">Treasury of Scripture Knowledge</div><p class="tsk2">Behold the hire of the labourers who have reaped down your fields, which by fraud has been kept back by you, crieth: and the cry of them hath entered into the ears of the Lord of Sabaoth.</p><p class="hdg">the hire.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../leviticus/19-13.htm">Leviticus 19:13</a> Thou shalt not calumniate thy neighbour, nor oppress him by violence. The wages of him that hath been hired by thee shall not abide with thee until the morning.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../deuteronomy/24-14.htm">Deuteronomy 24:14,15</a> Thou shalt not refuse the hire of the needy, and the poor, whether he be thy brother, or a stranger that dwelleth with thee in the land, and is within thy gates: . . . </p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../job/24-10.htm">Job 24:10,11</a> From the naked and them that go without clothing, and from the hungry they have taken away the ears of corn. . . . </p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../job/31-38.htm">Job 31:38,39</a> If my land cry against me, and with it the furrows thereof mourn: . . . </p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../isaiah/5-7.htm">Isaiah 5:7</a> For the vineyard of the Lord of hosts is the house of Israel: and the man of Juda, his pleasant plant: and I looked that he should do judgment, and behold iniquity: and do justice, and behold a cry.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../jeremiah/22-13.htm">Jeremiah 22:13</a> Woe to him that buildeth up his house by injustice, and his chambers not in judgment: that will oppress his friend without cause, and will not pay him his wages.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../habakkuk/2-11.htm">Habakkuk 2:11</a> For the stone shall cry out of the wall: and the timber that is between the joints of the building, shall answer.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../malachi/3-5.htm">Malachi 3:5</a> And I will come to you in judgment, and will be a speedy witness against sorcerers, and adulterers, and false swearers, and them that oppress the hireling in his wages, the widows, and the fatherless: and oppress the stranger, and have not feared me, saith the Lord of hosts.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../colossians/4-1.htm">Colossians 4:1</a> Masters, do to your servants that which is just and equal: knowing that you also have a master in heaven.</p><p class="hdg">the cries.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../genesis/4-10.htm">Genesis 4:10</a> And he said to him: What hast thou done? the voice of thy brother's blood crieth to me from the earth.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../exodus/2-23.htm">Exodus 2:23,24</a> Now after a long time the king of Egypt died: and the children of Israel groaning, cried out because of the works: and their cry went up unto God from the works. . . . </p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../exodus/3-9.htm">Exodus 3:9</a> For the cry of the children of Israel is come unto me: and I have seen their affliction, wherewith they are oppressed by the Egyptians.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../exodus/22-22.htm">Exodus 22:22-24,27</a> You shall not hurt a widow or an orphan. . . . </p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../deuteronomy/24-15.htm">Deuteronomy 24:15</a> But thou shalt pay him the price of his labour the same day, before the going down of the sun, because he is poor, and with it maintaineth his life: lest he cry against thee to the Lord, and it be reputed to thee for a sin.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../job/34-28.htm">Job 34:28</a> So that they caused the cry of the needy to come to him, and he heard the voice of the poor.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../psalms/9-12.htm">Psalm 9:12</a> For requiring their blood, he hath remembered them: he hath not forgotten the cry of the poor.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../luke/18-7.htm">Luke 18:7</a> And will not God revenge his elect who cry to him day and night? And will he have patience in their regard?</p><p class="hdg">Lord.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../romans/9-29.htm">Romans 9:29</a> And Isaias foretold: Unless the Lord of Sabbath had left us a seed, we had been made as Sodom and we had been like unto Gomorrha.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../isaiah/1-9.htm">Isaiah 1:9</a> Except the Lord of hosts had left us seed, we had been as Sodom, and we should have been like to Gomorrha.</p><p class="hdg2">*Heb:</p></div></div></div><div id="centbox"><div class="padcent"><div class="vheadingv"><b>Context</b></div><span class="hdg"><a href="/drbc/james/5.htm">Warning to the Rich</a></span><br>…<span class="reftext">3</span>Your gold and silver is cankered: and the rust of them shall be for a testimony against you and shall eat your flesh like fire. You have stored up to yourselves wrath against the last days. <span class="reftext">4</span><span class="highl">Behold the hire of the labourers who have reaped down your fields, which by fraud has been kept back by you, crieth: and the cry of them hath entered into the ears of the Lord of Sabaoth.</span> <span class="reftext">5</span>You have feasted upon earth: and in riotousness you have nourished your hearts, in the day of slaughter.…<div class="vheading2">Cross References</div><div id="crf"><span class="crossverse"><a href="../exodus/2-23.htm">Exodus 2:23</a></span><br />Now after a long time the king of Egypt died: and the children of Israel groaning, cried out because of the works: and their cry went up unto God from the works.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../exodus/22-23.htm">Exodus 22:23</a></span><br />If you hurt them, they will cry out to me, and I will hear their cry:<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../leviticus/19-13.htm">Leviticus 19:13</a></span><br />Thou shalt not calumniate thy neighbour, nor oppress him by violence. The wages of him that hath been hired by thee shall not abide with thee until the morning.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../deuteronomy/15-9.htm">Deuteronomy 15:9</a></span><br />Beware lest perhaps a wicked thought steal in upon thee, and thou say in thy heart: The seventh year of remission draweth nigh; and thou turn away thy eyes from thy poor brother, denying to lend him that which he asketh: lest he cry against thee to the Lord, and it become a sin unto thee.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../deuteronomy/24-15.htm">Deuteronomy 24:15</a></span><br />But thou shalt pay him the price of his labour the same day, before the going down of the sun, because he is poor, and with it maintaineth his life: lest he cry against thee to the Lord, and it be reputed to thee for a sin.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../job/24-10.htm">Job 24:10</a></span><br />From the naked and them that go without clothing, and from the hungry they have taken away the ears of corn.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../job/31-38.htm">Job 31:38</a></span><br />If my land cry against me, and with it the furrows thereof mourn:<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../job/31-39.htm">Job 31:39</a></span><br />If I have eaten the fruits thereof without money, and have afflicted the son of the tillers thereof:<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../job/34-28.htm">Job 34:28</a></span><br />So that they caused the cry of the needy to come to him, and he heard the voice of the poor.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../isaiah/5-9.htm">Isaiah 5:9</a></span><br />These things are in my ears, saith the Lord of hosts: Unless many great and fair houses shall become desolate, without an inhabitant.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../jeremiah/22-13.htm">Jeremiah 22:13</a></span><br />Woe to him that buildeth up his house by injustice, and his chambers not in judgment: that will oppress his friend without cause, and will not pay him his wages.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../malachi/3-5.htm">Malachi 3:5</a></span><br />And I will come to you in judgment, and will be a speedy witness against sorcerers, and adulterers, and false swearers, and them that oppress the hireling in his wages, the widows, and the fatherless: and oppress the stranger, and have not feared me, saith the Lord of hosts.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../matthew/9-37.htm">Matthew 9:37</a></span><br />Then he saith to his disciples, The harvest indeed is great, but the labourers are few.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../romans/9-29.htm">Romans 9:29</a></span><br />And Isaias foretold: Unless the Lord of Sabbath had left us a seed, we had been made as Sodom and we had been like unto Gomorrha.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span></div></div></div><div id="mdd"><div align="center"><div class="bot2"><table align="center" width="100%"><tr><td></td></tr></table></div></div></div><div id="combox"><div class="padcom"><div class="vheading2">Jump to Previous</div><a href="/hebrews/11-34.htm">Armies</a> <a href="/galatians/4-27.htm">Cries</a> <a href="/romans/9-27.htm">Crieth</a> <a href="/2_timothy/2-6.htm">Crops</a> <a href="/1_thessalonians/4-16.htm">Cry</a> <a href="/2_timothy/2-15.htm">Cutting</a> <a href="/hebrews/12-25.htm">Ears</a> <a href="/hebrews/9-24.htm">Entered</a> <a href="/james/2-10.htm">Failed</a> <a href="/james/3-14.htm">Falsely</a> <a href="/2_timothy/2-6.htm">Field</a> <a href="/2_timothy/2-6.htm">Fields</a> <a href="/1_thessalonians/2-3.htm">Fraud</a> <a href="/2_thessalonians/2-1.htm">Gathered</a> <a href="/1_timothy/5-18.htm">Grain</a> <a href="/james/1-11.htm">Grass</a> <a 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