Isaiah 3:15

Bishops' Bible (1568)

What meane ye that ye bray as in a morter my people, and grinde the faces of the poore? saith the Lorde God of hoastes.

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  • Ps 94:5 : 5 They oppresse thy people O God: and they afflict thine heritage.
  • Isa 58:4 : 4 Beholde, when ye fast, your lust remayneth still, for ye do no lesse violence to your detters: lo, ye fast to strife and debate, and to smite with your fist without mercy: Nowe ye shall not fast thus, that your voyce might be hearde aboue.
  • Ezek 18:2 : 2 What meane ye by this comon prouerbe that ye vse in the lande of Israel, saying: The fathers haue eaten sowre grapes, and the chyldrens teeth are set on edge?
  • Amos 2:6-7 : 6 Thus sayth the Lorde, For three wickednesses of Israel, and for foure I wil not spare hym: because they solde the righteous for siluer, and the poore for a paire of shoes. 7 They gape for breath ouer the head of the poore in the dust of the earth, & peruert the way of the meke: A man and his father will go in to one mayde, to dishonour my holy name.
  • Amos 8:4-6 : 4 Heare this, O ye that swallow vp the poore, that ye may make the needy of the lande to fayle, 5 Saying, When will the new moneth be gone, that we may sell corne? & the Sabbath, that we may set foorth wheate, and make the Epha small, & the sicle great, & falsifie the wayghtes by deceite? 6 That we may bie the poore for siluer, and the needy for shoes, yea and sell the refuse of the wheate?
  • Jonah 1:6 : 6 And the shippe maister came to him, and saide: What meanest thou sleeper? Up, and call vpon thy God, if so be that God wyl shine vnto vs, that we perishe not.
  • Mic 3:2-3 : 2 But they hate the good, and loue the euill, they plucke of their skinnes from them, and their fleshe from their bones. 3 And they eate also the fleshe of my people, & flay of their skinne from them: and they breake their bones, and chop them in peeces as for the pot, and as fleshe within the cauldron.
  • Exod 5:14 : 14 And the officers of the children of Israel which Pharaos taskemasters had set ouer them, were beaten. And they sayde vnto them: wherfore haue ye not fulfilled your taske in makyng of brycke both yesterday and to day, as well as in tymes past?

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    5And the people shall eche one of them violently oppresse another, and euery one agaynst his neyghbour: The boy shall presume agaynst the elder, and the person of lowe degree agaynst the honorable.

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