Isaiah 3:15

Why do you crush my people and grind the faces of the poor?” 1 This is the declaration of the Lord Yahweh of hosts. 1

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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

14Yahweh will come with judgment against the elders of his people and their leaders: 1 “You have ruined the vineyard; the plunder from the poor is in your houses. 1

16Yahweh says that because the daughters of Zion are proud, 1 they walk with their necks extended, 1 with flirting eyes, walking with tiny steps as they go, 1 making tinkling sounds from bracelets on their ankles. 1

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Cross References

Exodus 5:14Pharaoh's taskmasters beat the Israelite foremen, those same men whom they had put in charge of the workers. The taskmasters kept asking them, “Why have you not produced all the bricks required of you, either yesterday and today, as you used to do in the past?”

Proverbs 30:14There is a generation whose teeth are swords, 1 and their jawbones are like knives, 1 so they may devour the poor from the earth and the needy from among humanity. 1

Ezekiel 18:2“What do you mean, you who use this proverb concerning the land of Israel and say, 1 'Fathers eat sour grapes, and the children's teeth are made blunt'?

Amos 2:7They trample on the heads of the poor as people trample on dust on the ground; 1 they push the oppressed away. 1 A man and his father sleep with the same girl 1 and so profane my holy name. 1

Jonah 1:6So the captain came to him and said to him, “What are you doing sleeping? Get up! Call upon your god! Maybe your god will notice us and we will not perish.”

Micah 3:3you who also eat the flesh of my people, 1 and tear their skin off, 1 break their bones, 1 and chop them in pieces, 1 just like meat for a pot, 1 just like meat in a cauldron. 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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