Verse 1

And there arose a great complaynt of the people and their wyues against their brethre the Iewes.

Referenced Verses

  • Isa 5:7 : 7 As for the vineyarde of the Lorde of hoastes, it is the house of Israel: and the man of Iuda, the plant of his pleasure: Of these he loked for equitie, but see there is oppression for ryghteousnesse, and lo it is a crying.
  • Luke 18:7 : 7 And shall not God auenge his elect, which crye day and nyght vnto hym? yea, though he deferre them,
  • Acts 7:26 : 26 And the next day he shewed hym selfe vnto them as they stroue, and woulde haue set them at one agayne, saying: Sirs, ye are brethren, why do ye wrong one to another?
  • 1 Cor 6:6-8 : 6 But one brother goeth to law with another, and that vnder the vnbeleuers? 7 Nowe therefore there is vtterly a fault among you, because ye go to lawe one with another: Why rather suffer ye not wrong? why rather suffer ye not harme? 8 Nay, ye your selues do wrong, and do harme, and that to your brethren.
  • Jas 5:4 : 4 Beholde, the hire of labourers, which haue reaped downe your fieldes, which hire is of you kept backe by fraude, cryeth: and the cryes of them which haue reaped, are entred into the eares of the Lorde Sabaoth.
  • Exod 3:7 : 7 And the Lorde saide: I haue surely seene the trouble of my people which are in Egypt, and haue heard their crie from the face of their taske maisters: for I knowe their sorowes,
  • Exod 22:25-27 : 25 If thou lende money to any of my people that is poore by thee, thou shalt not be as a tiraunt vnto him, neither shalt thou lay vpon him vsurie. 26 If thou take thy neyghbours rayment to pledge, thou shalt deliuer it vnto him by that the sunne go downe. 27 For that is his couering only, euen the rayment for his skinne, wherein he slepeth: and when he cryeth vnto me, I wyll heare him, for I am mercyfull.
  • Lev 25:35-37 : 35 If thy brother be waxen poore and fallen in decay with thee, thou shalt relieue hym as a straunger or soiourner, that he may lyue with thee. 36 And thou shalt take none vsurie of hym, or vantage: but thou shalt feare thy God, that thy brother may lyue with thee. 37 Thou shalt not geue hym thy money vpon vsurie, nor lende him thy victuels for encrease.
  • Deut 15:7-9 : 7 If one of thy brethren among you be poore within any of thy gates in thy lande which the Lorde thy God geueth thee: thou shalt not harden thine heart, nor shut to thine hande from thy poore brother: 8 But thou shalt open thine hande vnto hym, and lende hym sufficient for his neede which he hath. 9 Beware that there be not a wicked thought in thine heart, that thou wouldest say, the seuenth yere, the yere of freedome is at hande: and therfore it greeueth thee to loke on thy poore brother, and geuest hym naught, and he then crye vnto the Lorde agaynst thee, and it be sinne vnto thee: 10 Thou shalt geue hym, and let it not greeue thine heart to geue vnto hym: Because that for this thyng the Lorde thy God shall blesse thee in all thy workes, and in all that thou puttest thine hande to. 11 The lande shall neuer be without poore: and therfore I comaunde thee, saying, Thou shalt open thine hande vnto thy brother that is needy & poore in thy lande.
  • Job 31:38-39 : 38 But if case be that my lande crye against me, or that the forowes thereof make any complaynt: 39 If I haue eaten the fruites therof vnpayed for, yea if I haue greeued the soules of the maisters therof:
  • Job 34:28 : 28 Insomuch that they haue caused the voyce of the poore to come vnto him, and now he heareth the complaint of such as are in trouble.