Isaiah 3:15 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

¹⁵ What do you mean by crushing my people, by grinding the face of the poor? says the Lord God of hosts.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹⁵ 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

¹⁵ 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)

¹⁵ what mean ye that ye crush my people, and grind the face of the poor? saith the Lord, Jehovah of hosts.

Common English Bible

¹⁵ How dare you crush my people and grind the faces of the poor? says the LORD God of heavenly forces.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹⁵ 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

¹⁵ Why do you consume my people, and grind the faces of the poor? Saith the Lord, the God of hosts.

Isaiah 3:15 Cross References

Psalm 94:5

They crush your people, O Lord, and afflict your heritage.

Exodus 5:14

And the Israelite supervisors whom Pharaoh’s taskmasters had set over them were beaten and were asked, “Why did you not finish the required quantity of bricks yesterday and today, as you did before?”

Proverbs 30:14

there are those whose teeth are swords, whose teeth are knives to devour the poor from off the earth, the needy from among mortals.

Isaiah 10:2

to turn aside the needy from justice and to rob the poor of my people of their right, to make widows their spoil and to plunder orphans!

Isaiah 14:30

In my pastures the poor will graze and the needy lie down in safety, but I will make your root die of famine, and your remnant I will kill.

Isaiah 26:6

The foot tramples it, the feet of the poor, the steps of the needy.

Isaiah 29:19

The meek shall obtain fresh joy in the Lord, and the neediest people shall exult in the Holy One of Israel.

Isaiah 30:12

Therefore thus says the Holy One of Israel: Because you reject this word and put your trust in oppression and deceit and rely on them,

Isaiah 32:6

For fools speak folly, and their minds plot iniquity: to practice ungodliness, to utter error concerning the Lord, to leave the craving of the hungry unsatisfied, and to deprive the thirsty of drink.

Isaiah 5:7

For the vineyard of the Lord of hosts is the house of Israel, and the people of Judah are his cherished garden; he expected justice but saw bloodshed; righteousness but heard a cry!

Isaiah 58:4

You fast only to quarrel and to fight and to strike with a wicked fist. Such fasting as you do today will not make your voice heard on high.

Isaiah 63:8

For he said, “Surely they are my people, children who will not act deceitfully,” and he became their savior

Ezekiel 18:2

What do you mean by repeating this proverb concerning the land of Israel, “The parents have eaten sour grapes, and the children’s teeth are set on edge”?

Jonah 1:6

The captain came and said to him, “What are you doing sound asleep? Get up; call on your god! Perhaps the god will spare us a thought so that we do not perish.”