Isaiah 3:15
Good News Translation
You have no right to crush my people and take advantage of the poor. I, the Sovereign LORD Almighty, have spoken."

New Revised Standard Version
What do you mean by crushing my people, by grinding the face of the poor? says the Lord GOD of hosts.

Contemporary English Version
The LORD All-Powerful says, "You have crushed my people and rubbed in the dirt the faces of the poor."

New American Bible
What do you mean by crushing my people, and grinding down the faces of the poor? says the Lord, the GOD of hosts.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Why do you consume my people, and grind the faces of the poor? saith the Lord the God of hosts.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Why do you consume my people, and grind the faces of the poor? saith the Lord the God of hosts.

what mean

Ezekiel 18:2 That you use among you this parable as a proverb in the land of Israel, saying: The fathers have eaten sour grapes, and the teeth of the children are set on edge.

Jonah 1:6 And the mariners were afraid, and the men cried to their god: and they cast forth the wares that were in the ship, into the sea, to lighten it of them: and Jonah went down into the inner part of the ship, and fell into a deep sleep.

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Isaiah 58:4 Behold you fast for debates and strife, and strike with the fist wickedly. Do not fast as you have done until this day, to make your cry to be heard on high.

Exodus 5:14 And they that were over the works of the children of Israel, were scourged by Pharao's taskmasters, saying: Why have you not made up the task of bricks, both yesterday and to day, as before?

Amos 2:6,7 Thus saith the Lord: For three crimes of Israel, and for four I will not convert him: because he hath sold the just man for silver, and the poor man for a pair of shoes. . . .

Amos 8:4-6 And the hinges of the temple shall screak in that day, saith the Lord God: many shall die: silence shall be cast in every place. . . .

Micah 3:2,3 And I said: Hear, O ye princes of Jacob, and ye chiefs of the house of Israel: Is it not your part to know judgment, . . .

Context
A Judgment Against Judah
14The Lord will enter into judgment with the ancients of his people, and its princes: for you have devoured the vineyard, and the spoil of the poor is in your house. 15Why do you consume my people, and grind the faces of the poor? saith the Lord the God of hosts.
Cross References
Psalm 94:5
Thy people, O Lord, they have brought low: and they have afflicted thy inheritance.

Isaiah 5:7
For the vineyard of the Lord of hosts is the house of Israel: and the man of Juda, his pleasant plant: and I looked that he should do judgment, and behold iniquity: and do justice, and behold a cry.

Isaiah 10:2
To oppress the poor in judgment, and do violence to the cause of the humble of my people: that widows might be their prey, and that they might rob the fatherless.

Isaiah 14:30
And the firstborn of the poor shall be fed, and the poor shall rest with confidence: and I will make thy root perish with famine, and I will kill thy remnant.

Isaiah 26:6
The foot shall tread it down, the feet of the poor, the steps of the needy.

Isaiah 29:19
And the meek shall increase their joy in the Lord, and the poor men shall rejoice in the Holy One of Israel.

Isaiah 30:12
Therefore thus saith the Holy One of Israel: Because you have rejected this word, and have trusted in oppression and tumult, and have leaned upon it:

Isaiah 32:6
For the fool will speak foolish things, and his heart will work iniquity, to practise hypocrisy, and speak to the Lord deceitfully, and to make empty the soul of the hungry, and take away drink from the thirsty.

Isaiah 58:4
Behold you fast for debates and strife, and strike with the fist wickedly. Do not fast as you have done until this day, to make your cry to be heard on high.

Isaiah 63:8
And he said: Surely they are my people, children that will not deny: so he became their saviour.

Ezekiel 18:2
That you use among you this parable as a proverb in the land of Israel, saying: The fathers have eaten sour grapes, and the teeth of the children are set on edge.

Isaiah 3:14
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