Isaiah 3:14

The LORD will enter into judgement with the elders of his people and their leaders: “It is you who have eaten up the vineyard. The plunder of the poor is in your houses.

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In The King James Version

The LORD will enter into judgment with the ancients of his people, and the princes thereof: for ye have eaten up the vineyard; the spoil of the poor is in your houses.

In Context

13The LORD stands up to contend, and stands to judge the peoples.

15What do you mean that you crush my people, and grind the face of the poor?” says the Lord, GOD of Armies.

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Cross References

Leviticus 25:17You shall not wrong one another, but you shall fear your God; for I am the LORD your God.

Job 24:2There are people who remove the landmarks. They violently take away flocks, and feed them.

Job 34:23For he doesn’t need to consider a man further, that he should go before God in judgement.

Psalms 143:2Don’t enter into judgement with your servant, for in your sight no man living is righteous.

Isaiah 5:7For the vineyard of the LORD of Armies is the house of Israel, and the men of Judah his pleasant plant. He looked for justice, but behold, oppression, for righteousness, but behold, a cry of distress.

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 →

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