Isaiah 3:14
The Lord will enter into judgment with the elders of his people, and with their leaders. For you have been devouring the vineyard, and the plunder from the poor is in your house.
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In The King James Version
In Context
13The Lord stands for judgment, and he stands to judge the people.
15Why do you wear down my people, and grind up the faces of the poor, says the Lord, the God of hosts?
Cross References
Leviticus 25:17Do not be willing to afflict your countrymen, but let each one fear his God. For I am the Lord your God.
Job 24:2Some have crossed the boundaries, plundered the flocks, and given them pasture.
Job 34:23For it is no longer within the power of man to enter into judgment with God.
Psalms 143:2My mercy and my refuge, my supporter and my deliverer, my protector and him in whom I have hoped: he subdues my people under me.
Isaiah 5:7For the vineyard of the Lord of hosts is the house of Israel. And the man of Judah is his delightful seedling. And I expected that he would do judgment, and behold iniquity, and that he would do justice, and behold an outcry.
Jeremiah 12:10Many pastors have demolished my vineyard. They have trampled my portion. They have made my desirable portion into a desert of solitude.
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 →