THEOSISIsaiah 3:15Meaning & Commentary from the Church Fathers
Why do you consume my people, and grind the faces of the poor? saith the Lord the God of hosts.
מלכם מַה־לָּכֶם֙ תְּדַכְּא֣וּ עַמִּ֔י וּפְנֵ֥י עֲנִיִּ֖ים תִּטְחָ֑נוּ נְאֻם־אֲדֹנָ֥י יְהוִ֖ה צְבָאֽוֹת׃
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Passages read together with this verse.
- Mic 3:2You that hate good, and love evil: that violently pluck off their skins from them and their flesh from their bones?
- Mic 3:3Who have eaten the flesh of my people, and have flayed their skin off them: and have broken, and chopped their bones as for the kettle, and as flesh in the midst of the pot.
- Ps 94 (93):5
- Amos 2:6Thus 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 2:7They bruise the heads of the poor upon the dust of the earth, and turn aside the way of the humble: and the son and his father have gone to the same young woman, to profane my holy name.
- Amos 8:4Hear this, you that crush the poor, and make the needy of the land to fail,
- Amos 8:6That we may possess the needy for money, and the poor for a pair of shoes, and may sell the refuse of the corn?
- Ex 5:14And 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?