Isaiah 3:14
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“The LORD brings this charge against the elders and leaders of His people: “You have devoured the vineyard; the plunder of the poor is in your houses.”
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“The LORD brings this charge against the elders and leaders of His people: “You have devoured the vineyard; the plunder of the poor is in your houses.”
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)“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.”
King James Version · Public Domain“Jehovah will enter into judgment with the elders of his people, and the princes thereof: It is ye that have eaten up the vineyard; the spoil of the poor is in your houses:”
American Standard Version · Public Domain“Jehovah into judgment doth enter With elders of His people, and its heads: `And ye, ye have consumed the vineyard, Plunder of the poor <FI>is<Fi> in your houses.”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainOther passages that echo Isaiah 3:14 — 19 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Leviticus 25:14If you make a sale to your neighbor or a purchase from him, you must not take advantage of each other.
- Leviticus 25:17Do not take advantage of each other, but fear your God; for I am the LORD your God.
- Job 22:4Is it for your reverence that He rebukes you and enters into judgment against you?
- Job 24:2Men move boundary stones; they pasture stolen flocks.
- Job 24:9The fatherless infant is snatched from the breast; the nursing child of the poor is seized for a debt.
- Job 34:23For God need not examine a man further or have him approach for judgment.
- Psalms 14:4Will the workers of iniquity never learn? They devour my people like bread; they refuse to call upon the LORD.
- Psalms 143:2Do not bring Your servant into judgment, for no one alive is righteous before You.
- Isaiah 3:2the mighty man and the warrior, the judge and the prophet, the soothsayer and the elder,
- Isaiah 5:7For the vineyard of the LORD of Hosts is the house of Israel, and the men of Judah are the plant of His delight. He looked for justice, but saw bloodshed; for righteousness, but heard a cry of distress.
- Jeremiah 5:27Like cages full of birds, so their houses are full of deceit. Therefore they have become powerful and rich.
- Jeremiah 12:10Many shepherds have destroyed My vineyard; they have trampled My plot of ground. They have turned My pleasant field into a desolate wasteland.
- Amos 2:7They trample on the heads of the poor as on the dust of the earth; they push the needy out of their way. A man and his father have relations with the same girl and so profane My holy name.
- Amos 4:1Hear this word, you cows of Bashan on Mount Samaria, you women who oppress the poor and crush the needy, who say to your husbands, “Bring us more to drink.”
- Micah 2:1Woe to those who devise iniquity and plot evil on their beds! At morning’s light they accomplish it because the power is in their hands.
- Micah 2:2They covet fields and seize them; they take away houses. They deprive a man of his home, a fellow man of his inheritance.
- Micah 6:10Can I forget any longer, O house of the wicked, the treasures of wickedness and the short ephah, which is accursed?
- Matthew 21:33Listen to another parable: There was a landowner who planted a vineyard. He put a wall around it, dug a winepress in it, and built a tower. Then he rented it out to some tenants and went away on a journey.
- James 2:6But you have dishonored the poor. Is it not the rich who oppress you and drag you into court?
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