Isaiah 3:15

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?

Cross References

Psalm 94:5

For the sea is his, and he made it, and his hands formed the dry land.

Exodus 5:14

And those who were first in the works of the sons of Israel were scourged by Pharaoh's taskmasters, saying: "Why have you not filled the quota of bricks, neither yesterday, nor today, just as before?"

Proverbs 30:14

There is a generation which has swords in place of teeth, and which commands their molars to devour the indigent from the earth and the poor from among men.

Isaiah 10:2

in order to oppress the poor in judgment, and to do violence to the case of the humble of my people, in order that widows may be their prey, and that they might plunder the orphan.

Isaiah 14:30

And the firstborn of the poor will be pastured, and the poor will rest in faithfulness. And I will cause your root to pass away by famine, and I will put to death your remnant.

Isaiah 26:6

The foot will tread it down: the feet of the poor, the steps of the indigent.

Isaiah 29:19

And the meek will increase their rejoicing in the Lord, and the poor among men will exult in the Holy One of Israel.

Isaiah 30:12

Because of this, thus says the Holy One of Israel: Since you have rejected this word, and you have hoped in calumny and rebellion, and since you have depended upon these things,

Isaiah 32:6

For a foolish man speaks foolishness and his heart works iniquity in order to accomplish deception. And he speaks to the Lord deceitfully, so as to empty the soul of the hungry and to take away drink from the thirsty.

Isaiah 5:7

For the vineyard of the Lord of hosts is the house of Israel. And the man of Judah is his delightful seedling. And I expected that he would do judgment, and behold iniquity, and that he would do justice, and behold an outcry.

Isaiah 58:4

Behold, you fast with strife and contention, and you strike with the fist impiously. Do not choose to fast as you have done even to this day. Then your outcry will be heard on high.

Isaiah 63:8

And he said: "Yet truly, these are my people, sons who have not been disowned." And he became their Savior.

Ezekiel 18:2

"Why is it that you circulate among yourselves this parable, as a proverb in the land of Israel, saying: 'The fathers ate a bitter grape, and the teeth of the sons have been affected.'

Jonah 1:6

And the helmsman approached him, and he said to him, "Why are you weighed down with sleep? Rise, call upon your God, so perhaps God will be mindful of us and we might not perish."