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.
Ver. 4. Kept back by fraud crieth] Bloodshed, Genesis 4:10, unnatural lust, Genesis 18:21, and oppression (whether by force or fraud), cry to God, and he will hear, for "he is gracious," Exodus 22:27. Oppression is a bony sin, Amos 5:12,13 .
" Clamitat in caelum vex sanguinis, et Sodomorum,
Vex oppressorum, et merces detenta laborum. "
Lord of Sabaoth] Who hath all power in his hand, and can easily reach you.