Isaiah 3:14

World English Bible (2000)

Yahweh will enter into judgment with the elders of his people, and their leaders: "It is you who have eaten up the vineyard. The spoil of the poor is in your houses.

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Referenced Verses

  • Job 22:4 : 4 Is it for your piety that he reproves you, that he enters with you into judgment?
  • Ps 143:2 : 2 Don't enter into judgment with your servant, for in your sight no man living is righteous.
  • Isa 3:2-3 : 2 the mighty man, the man of war, the judge, the prophet, the diviner, the elder, 3 the captain of fifty, the honorable man, the counselor, the skilled craftsman, and the clever enchanter.
  • Isa 5:7 : 7 For the vineyard of Yahweh of Armies is the house of Israel, and the men of Judah his pleasant plant: and he looked for justice, but, behold, oppression; for righteousness, but, behold, a cry of distress.
  • Jer 5:27 : 27 As a cage is full of birds, so are their houses full of deceit. Therefore they have become great, and grew rich.
  • Amos 4:1 : 1 Listen to this word, you cows of Bashan, who are on the mountain of Samaria, who oppress the poor, who crush the needy, who tell their husbands, "Bring us drinks!"
  • Mic 2:2 : 2 They covet fields, and seize them; and houses, and take them away: and they oppress a man and his house, even a man and his heritage.
  • Mic 6:10 : 10 Are there yet treasures of wickedness in the house of the wicked, and a short ephah that is accursed?
  • Matt 21:33 : 33 "Hear another parable. There was a man who was a master of a household, who planted a vineyard, set a hedge about it, dug a winepress in it, built a tower, leased it out to farmers, and went into another country.
  • Jas 2:6 : 6 But you have dishonored the poor man. Don't the rich oppress you, and personally drag you before the courts?
  • Job 24:2-7 : 2 There are people who remove the landmarks. They violently take away flocks, and feed them. 3 They drive away the donkey of the fatherless, and they take the widow's ox for a pledge. 4 They turn the needy out of the way. The poor of the earth all hide themselves. 5 Behold, as wild donkeys in the desert, they go forth to their work, seeking diligently for food. The wilderness yields them bread for their children. 6 They cut their provender in the field. They glean the vineyard of the wicked. 7 They lie all night naked without clothing, and have no covering in the cold.
  • Job 24:9 : 9 There are those who pluck the fatherless from the breast, and take a pledge of the poor,
  • Job 34:23 : 23 For he doesn't need to consider a man further, that he should go before God in judgment.
  • Ps 14:4 : 4 Have all the workers of iniquity no knowledge, who eat up my people as they eat bread, and don't call on Yahweh?

Similar Verses (AI)

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

  • Amos 5:11-12
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    11 Forasmuch therefore as you trample on the poor, and take taxes from him of wheat: You have built houses of cut stone, but you will not dwell in them. You have planted pleasant vineyards, but you shall not drink their wine.

    12 For I know how many your offenses, and how great are your sins-- you who afflict the just, who take a bribe, and who turn aside the needy in the courts.

  • Isa 10:2-3
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    2 to deprive the needy from justice, and to rob the poor among my people of their rights, that widows may be their spoil, and that they may make the fatherless their prey!

    3 What will you do in the day of visitation, and in the desolation which will come from afar? To whom will you flee for help? Where will you leave your wealth?

  • 13 Yahweh stands up to contend, and stands to judge the peoples.

  • 9 Please listen to this, you heads of the house of Jacob, and rulers of the house of Israel, who abhor justice, and pervert all equity.

  • Isa 5:7-9
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    7 For the vineyard of Yahweh of Armies is the house of Israel, and the men of Judah his pleasant plant: and he looked for justice, but, behold, oppression; for righteousness, but, behold, a cry of distress.

    8 Woe to those who join house to house, who lay field to field, until there is no room, and you are made to dwell alone in the midst of the land!

    9 In my ears, Yahweh of Armies says: "Surely many houses will be desolate, even great and beautiful, unoccupied.

  • 4 Hear this, you who desire to swallow up the needy, and cause the poor of the land to fail,

  • 13 Their wealth will become a spoil, and their houses a desolation. Yes, they will build houses, but won't inhabit them. They will plant vineyards, but won't drink their wine.

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    22 Don't exploit the poor, because he is poor; and don't crush the needy in court;

    23 for Yahweh will plead their case, and plunder the life of those who plunder them.

  • 1 I said, "Please listen, you heads of Jacob, and rulers of the house of Israel: Isn't it for you to know justice?

  • 3 "Now, inhabitants of Jerusalem and men of Judah, please judge between me and my vineyard.

  • 1 Listen to this word, you cows of Bashan, who are on the mountain of Samaria, who oppress the poor, who crush the needy, who tell their husbands, "Bring us drinks!"

  • Mic 3:11-12
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    11 Her leaders judge for bribes, and her priests teach for a price, and her prophets of it tell fortunes for money: yet they lean on Yahweh, and say, "Isn't Yahweh in the midst of us? No disaster will come on us."

    12 Therefore Zion for your sake will be plowed like a field, and Jerusalem will become heaps of rubble, and the mountain of the temple like the high places of a forest.

  • 3 "Defend the weak, the poor, and the fatherless. Maintain the rights of the poor and oppressed.

  • 29 The people of the land have used oppression, and exercised robbery; yes, they have troubled the poor and needy, and have oppressed the foreigner wrongfully.

  • Jer 21:11-12
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    11 Touching the house of the king of Judah, hear the word of Yahweh:

    12 House of David, thus says Yahweh, Execute justice in the morning, and deliver him who is robbed out of the hand of the oppressor, lest my wrath go forth like fire, and burn so that none can quench it, because of the evil of your doings.

  • 5 The people will be oppressed, everyone by another, and everyone by his neighbor. The child will behave himself proudly against the old man, and the base against the honorable.

  • 7 They trample on the dust of the earth on the head of the poor, and deny justice to the oppressed; and a man and his father use the same maiden, to profane my holy name;

  • 6 You frustrate the plan of the poor, because Yahweh is his refuge.

  • 3 Thus says Yahweh: Execute justice and righteousness, and deliver him who is robbed out of the hand of the oppressor: and do no wrong, do no violence, to the foreigner, the fatherless, nor the widow; neither shed innocent blood in this place.

  • 9 In that day, I will punish all those who leap over the threshold, who fill their master's house with violence and deceit.

  • 23 Your princes are rebellious, and companions of thieves. Everyone loves bribes, and follows after rewards. They don't judge the fatherless, neither does the cause of the widow come to them.

  • 7 In you have they set light by father and mother; in the midst of you have they dealt by oppression with the foreigner; in you have they wronged the fatherless and the widow.

  • 6 "You shall not deny justice to your poor people in their lawsuits.

  • 13 Put in the sickle; for the harvest is ripe. Come, tread, for the winepress is full, the vats overflow, for their wickedness is great."

  • Jer 5:28-29
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    28 They have grown fat. They shine; yes, they excell in deeds of wickedness. They don't plead the cause, the cause of the fatherless, that they may prosper; and they don't judge the right of the needy.

    29 "Shall I not punish for these things?" says Yahweh. "Shall not my soul be avenged on such a nation as this?

  • 1 "Listen to this, you priests! Listen, house of Israel, and give ear, house of the king! For the judgment is against you; for you have been a snare at Mizpah, and a net spread on Tabor.

  • 14 Thus says Yahweh against all my evil neighbors, who touch the inheritance which I have caused my people Israel to inherit: behold, I will pluck them up from off their land, and will pluck up the house of Judah from among them.

  • 4 In that day they will take up a parable against you, and lament with a doleful lamentation, saying, 'We are utterly ruined! My people's possession is divided up. Indeed he takes it from me and assigns our fields to traitors!'"

  • 3 The earth will be utterly emptied and utterly laid waste; for Yahweh has spoken this word.

  • 9 Thus says the Lord Yahweh: Let it suffice you, princes of Israel: remove violence and spoil, and execute justice and righteousness; dispossessing my people, says the Lord Yahweh.

  • 13 Don't enter into the gate of my people in the day of their calamity. Don't look down on their affliction in the day of their calamity, neither seize their wealth on the day of their calamity.

  • 16 For the statutes of Omri are kept, and all the works of the house of Ahab. You walk in their counsels, that I may make you a ruin, and her inhabitants a hissing; And you will bear the reproach of my people."

  • 15 I will strike the winter house with the summer house; and the houses of ivory will perish, and the great houses will have an end," says Yahweh.

  • 2 He will judge your people with righteousness, and your poor with justice.

  • 14 You pierced the heads of his warriors with their own spears. They came as a whirlwind to scatter me, gloating as if to devour the wretched in secret.

  • 4 He will judge the poor of the people. He will save the children of the needy, and will break the oppressor in pieces.

  • 16 He judged the cause of the poor and needy; then it was well. Wasn't this to know me? says Yahweh.

  • 7 You who turn justice to wormwood, and cast down righteousness to the earth:

  • 1 Behold, a day of Yahweh comes, when your spoil will be divided in your midst.

  • 10 Many shepherds have destroyed my vineyard, they have trodden my portion under foot, they have made my pleasant portion a desolate wilderness.

  • 10 "Indeed they don't know to do right," says Yahweh, "Who hoard plunder and loot in their palaces."