Isaiah 3:14
LORD will enter into judgment with the elders of his people, and the rulers of it. It is ye who have eaten up the vineyard; the spoil of a poor man is in your houses.
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
In Context
13LORD stands up to contend, and stands to judge the peoples.
Cross References
Leviticus 25:17And ye shall not wrong each other, but thou shall fear thy God, for I am LORD your God.
Job 24:2There are [men] who remove the landmarks. They take away flocks violently, and feed them.
Job 34:23For he needs no further to consider a man, that he should go before God in judgment.
Psalms 143:2And enter not into judgment with thy servant. For in thy sight no man living is righteous.
Isaiah 5:7For the vineyard of LORD of hosts is the house of Israel, and the men of Judah his pleasant plant. And he looked for justice, but, behold, oppression, for righteousness, but, behold, a cry.
Jeremiah 12:10Many shepherds have destroyed my vineyard. They have trodden my portion under foot. They have made my pleasant portion a desolate wilderness.
Matthew Henry on Isaiah 3:10-16
Judgments Denounced.. ( b. c. 758.) 9 The show of their countenance doth witness against them; and they declare their sin as Sodom, they hide it not. Woe unto their soul! for they have rewarded evil unto themselves. 10 Say ye to the righteous, that it shall be well with him: for they shall eat the fruit of their doings. 11 Woe unto the wicked! it shall be ill with him: for the reward of his hands shall be given him. 12 As for my people, children are their oppressors, and women rule over them. O my people, they… Read the whole commentary →