Isaiah 3:15

What mean ye that ye crush Ami, 1 and grind the faces of the aniyim? 1 saith Adonoi Hashem Tzva'os. 1

Orthodox Jewish Bible

In The King James Version

What mean ye that ye beat my people to pieces, and grind the faces of the poor? saith the LORD GOD of hosts.

In Context

14Hashem will enter into mishpat 1 with the Ziknei Amo (Elders of His People), and the sarim thereof; 1 for ye have eaten up the kerem (vineyard); 1 the plunder of the oni is in your batim (houses). 1

16Moreover Hashem saith, 1 Because the Banot Tziyon are haughty, 1 and walk with stretched forth necks 1 and winking + 3:16 flirtatious eyes, 1 walking and tripping along as they go, 1 and making a tinkling with their feet; + 3:16 ankle rings 1

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Cross References

Exodus 5:14And the foremen of the Bnei Yisroel, which Pharaohʼs nogesim had set over them, were beaten, and were asked, Why have ye not fulfilled your task in making brick both yesterday and today, as heretofore?

Proverbs 30:14There is a dor (generation), whose teeth are as charavot (swords), 1 and their jaw teeth are as knives, 1 to devour the aniyim (oppressed poor ones) from off ha'aretz, 1 and the evyonim (needy ones) from among adam. 1

Ezekiel 18:2What mean ye, that ye use this mashal concerning Admat Yisroel, saying, Avot have eaten sour grapes, and the teeth of the banim are set on edge?

Amos 2:7They who trample on the dust of the ground which is on the rosh of the poor, 1 and turn aside the derech of the anavim; 1 and an ish and his av will go in unto the same na'arah, 1 to commit chillul Hashem against My Shem kodesh; 1

Jonah 1:6So the shipmaster came to him, and said unto him, What meanest thou, O sleeper? Arise, call upon Eloheicha, if so be that HaElohim will think upon us, that we perish not.

Micah 3:3Who also eat the flesh of Ami, 1 and flay their skin from off them; 1 and they break their atzamot, 1 and chop them in pieces, like for the pot, 1 and like the basar within the caldron. 1

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 →

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