Isaiah 3:14

King James Version with Strong's Numbers

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.

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

יְהוָה֙ בְּמִשְׁפָּ֣ט יָב֔וֹא עִם־זִקְנֵ֥י עַמּ֖וֹ וְשָׂרָ֑יו וְאַתֶּם֙ בִּֽעַרְתֶּ֣ם הַכֶּ֔רֶם גְּזֵלַ֥ת הֶֽעָנִ֖י בְּבָתֵּיכֶֽם

Transliteration

YHWH in-mišpāṭ yābôʾ with-ziqnê ʿammô and-śārāyw; and-ʾattem biʿartem the-kerem, gəzēlat the-ʿānî in-bāttêkem

Grammar Details

*YHWH*: divine name
*bəmišpāṭ*: preposition with noun, masculine singular - in judgment
*yābôʾ*: Qal imperfect, 3rd person masculine singular - he will come/enter
*ʿim*: preposition - with
*ziqnê*: noun, masculine plural construct - elders of
*ʿammô*: noun, masculine singular with 3rd person masculine singular suffix - his people
*śārāyw*: noun, masculine plural with 3rd person masculine singular suffix - his princes
*ʾattem*: 2nd person masculine plural pronoun - you
*biʿartem*: Piel perfect, 2nd person masculine plural - you have consumed/destroyed
*hakerem*: definite noun, masculine singular - the vineyard
*gəzēlat*: noun, feminine singular construct - plunder of
*heʿānî*: definite adjective, masculine singular - the poor/afflicted
*bəbāttêkem*: preposition with noun, masculine plural with 2nd person masculine plural suffix - in your houses

Word Meanings

*mišpāṭ*: judgment/justice/legal case
*bôʾ*: come/enter/arrive
*zāqēn*: elder/old man/aged one
*ʿam*: people/nation/folk
*śar*: prince/official/captain
*biʿēr*: consumed/destroyed/burned
*kerem*: vineyard/orchard/plantation
*gəzēlāh*: plunder/spoil/what is stolen
*ʿānî*: poor/afflicted/humble
*bayit*: house/home/household

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Referenced Verses

Job 22:4 : 4 Will he reprove thee for fear of thee? will he enter with thee into judgment?
Ps 143:2 : 2 And enter not into judgment with thy servant: for in thy sight shall no man living be justified.
Isa 3:2-3 : 2 The mighty man, and the man of war, the judge, and the prophet, and the prudent, and the ancient, 3 The captain of fifty, and the honourable man, and the counsellor, and the cunning artificer, and the eloquent orator.
Isa 5:7 : 7 For the vineyard of the LORD of hosts is the house of Israel, and the men of Judah his pleasant plant: and he looked for judgment, but behold oppression; for righteousness, but behold a cry.
Jer 5:27 : 27 As a cage is full of birds, so are their houses full of deceit: therefore they are become great, and waxen rich.
Amos 4:1 : 1 Hear this word, ye kine of Bashan, that are in the mountain of Samaria, which oppress the poor, which crush the needy, which say to their masters, Bring, and let us drink.
Mic 2:2 : 2 And they covet fields, and take them by violence; and houses, and take them away: so they oppress a man and his house, even a man and his heritage.
Mic 6:10 : 10 Are there yet the treasures of wickedness in the house of the wicked, and the scant measure that is abominable?
Matt 21:33 : 33 Hear another parable: There was a certain householder, which planted a vineyard, and hedged it round about, and digged a winepress in it, and built a tower, and let it out to husbandmen, and went into a far country:
Jas 2:6 : 6 But ye have despised the poor. Do not rich men oppress you, and draw you before the judgment seats?
Job 24:2-7 : 2 Some remove the landmarks; they violently take away flocks, and feed thereof. 3 They drive away the ass of the fatherless, they take the widow's ox for a pledge. 4 They turn the needy out of the way: the poor of the earth hide themselves together. 5 Behold, as wild asses in the desert, go they forth to their work; rising betimes for a prey: the wilderness yieldeth food for them and for their children. 6 They reap every one his corn in the field: and they gather the vintage of the wicked. 7 They cause the naked to lodge without clothing, that they have no covering in the cold.
Job 24:9 : 9 They pluck the fatherless from the breast, and take a pledge of the poor.
Job 34:23 : 23 For he will not lay upon man more than right; that he should enter into judgment with God.
Ps 14:4 : 4 Have all the workers of iniquity no knowledge? who eat up my people as they eat bread, and call not upon the LORD.

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