KJV King James Version
And there was a great cry of the people and of their wives against their brethren the Jews.
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Nehemiah 5:1
And there was a great cry of the people and of their wives against their brethren the Jews.
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BSB Berean Standard Bible
About that time there was a great outcry from the people and their wives against their fellow Jews.
WEB World English Bible
Then there arose a great cry of the people and of their wives against their brothers the Jews.
ASV American Standard Version
Then there arose a great cry of the people and of their wives against their brethren the Jews.
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
And there is a great cry of the people and their wives, concerning their brethren the Jews,
Surrounding context — Nehemiah 5
1 And there was a great cry of the people and of their wives against their brethren the Jews.
2 For there were that said, We, our sons, and our daughters, [are] many: therefore we take up corn [for them], that we may eat, and live.
3 [Some] also there were that said, We have mortgaged our lands, vineyards, and houses, that we might buy corn, because of the dearth.
4 There were also that said, We have borrowed money for the king’s tribute, [and that upon] our lands and vineyards.
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Isaiah 5:7For the vineyard of the LORD of hosts [is] the house of Israel, and the men of Judah his pleasant plant: and he looked for judgment, but behold oppression; for righteousness, but behold a cry.Deuteronomy 15:7-11If there be among you a poor man of one of thy brethren within any of thy gates in thy land which the LORD thy God giveth thee, thou shalt not harden thine heart, nor shut thine hand from thy poor brother:Leviticus 25:35-37And if thy brother be waxen poor, and fallen in decay with thee; then thou shalt relieve him: [yea, though he be] a stranger, or a sojourner; that he may live with thee.Exodus 3:7And the LORD said, I have surely seen the affliction of my people which [are] in Egypt, and have heard their cry by reason of their taskmasters; for I know their sorrows;Exodus 22:25-27If thou lend money to [any of] my people [that is] poor by thee, thou shalt not be to him as an usurer, neither shalt thou lay upon him usury.Job 34:28So that they cause the cry of the poor to come unto him, and he heareth the cry of the afflicted.Luke 18:7And shall not God avenge his own elect, which cry day and night unto him, though he bear long with them?James 5:4Behold, 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.Job 31:38-39If my land cry against me, or that the furrows likewise thereof complain;Acts 7:26And the next day he shewed himself unto them as they strove, and would have set them at one again, saying, Sirs, ye are brethren; why do ye wrong one to another?1 Corinthians 6:6-8But brother goeth to law with brother, and that before the unbelievers.
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