Isaiah 3:15 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895 what mean ye that ye crush my people, and grind the face of the poor? saith the Lord, the LORD of hosts. More versionsKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 What mean ye that ye beat my people to pieces, and grind the faces of the poor? saith the Lord GOD of hosts. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition What do you mean by crushing My people and grinding the faces of the poor? says the Lord God of hosts. American Standard Version (1901) what mean ye that ye crush my people, and grind the face of the poor? saith the Lord, Jehovah of hosts. Common English Bible How dare you crush my people and grind the faces of the poor? says the LORD God of heavenly forces. Catholic Public Domain Version Why do you wear down my people, and grind up the faces of the poor, says the Lord, the God of hosts? Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version Why do you consume my people, and grind the faces of the poor? Saith the Lord, the God of hosts. |
And the officers of the children of Israel, which Pharaoh's taskmasters had set over them, were beaten, and demanded, Wherefore have ye not fulfilled your task both yesterday and today, in making brick as heretofore?
There is a generation whose teeth are as swords, and their jaw teeth as knives, To devour the poor from off the earth, and the needy from among men.
to turn aside the needy from judgement, and to take away the right of the poor of my people, that widows may be their spoil, and that they may make the fatherless their prey!
And the firstborn of the poor shall feed, and the needy shall lie down in safety: and I will kill thy root with famine, and thy remnant shall be slain.
The foot shall tread it down; even the feet of the poor, and the steps of the needy.
The meek also shall increase their joy in the LORD, and the poor among men shall rejoice in the Holy One of Israel.
Wherefore thus saith the Holy One of Israel, Because ye despise this word, and trust in oppression and perverseness, and stay thereon;
For the vile person will speak villany, and his heart will work iniquity, to practise profaneness, and to utter error against the LORD, to make empty the soul of the hungry, and to cause the drink of the thirsty to fail.
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 judgement, but behold oppression; for righteousness, but behold a cry.
Behold, ye fast for strife and contention, and to smite with the fist of wickedness: ye fast not this day so as to make your voice to be heard on high.
For he said, Surely, they are my people, children that will not deal falsely: so he was their saviour.
What mean ye, that ye use this proverb concerning the land of Israel, saying, The fathers have eaten sour grapes, and the children's teeth are set on edge?
So the shipmaster came to him, and said unto him, What meanest thou, O sleeper? arise, call upon thy God, if so be that God will think upon us, that we perish not.