Isaiah 3:14

New American Bible - revised edition

The Lord enters into judgment with the people’s elders and princes: You, you who have devoured the vineyard; the loot wrested from the poor is in your houses.

Cross References

Job 22:4

Is it because of your piety that he reproves you— that he enters into judgment with you?

Job 24:14

When there is no light the murderer rises, to kill the poor and needy; in the night he acts like a thief.

Job 24:9

Orphans are snatched from the breast, infants of the needy are taken in pledge.

Job 34:23

For no one has God set a time to come before him in judgment.

Psalm 10:9

They lurk in ambush like lions in a thicket, hide there to trap the poor, snare them and close the net.

Psalm 14:4

Will these evildoers never learn? They devour my people as they devour bread; they do not call upon the Lord.

Psalm 143:2

Do not enter into judgment with your servant; before you no one can be just.

Proverbs 30:14

There are some—their teeth are swords, their teeth are knives, Devouring the needy from the earth, and the poor from the human race.

Isaiah 10:1

Ah! Those who enact unjust statutes, who write oppressive decrees,

Isaiah 10:2

Depriving the needy of judgment, robbing my people’s poor of justice, Making widows their plunder, and orphans their prey!

Isaiah 11:4

But he shall judge the poor with justice, and decide fairly for the land’s afflicted. He shall strike the ruthless with the rod of his mouth, and with the breath of his lips he shall slay the wicked.

Isaiah 14:30

In my pastures the poor shall graze, and the needy lie down in safety; But I will kill your root with famine that shall slay even your remnant.

Isaiah 26:6

The feet of the needy trample on it— the feet of the poor.

Isaiah 29:19

The lowly shall again find joy in the Lord, the poorest rejoice 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 depend on them,

Isaiah 5:7

The vineyard of the Lord of hosts is the house of Israel, the people of Judah, his cherished plant; He waited for judgment, but see, bloodshed! for justice, but hark, the outcry!

Isaiah 58:4

See, you fast only to quarrel and fight and to strike with a wicked fist! Do not fast as you do today to make your voice heard on high!

Jeremiah 12:10

Many shepherds have ravaged my vineyard, have trampled down my heritage; My delightful portion they have turned into a desert waste.

Jeremiah 5:27

Their houses are as full of treachery as a bird-cage is of birds; Therefore they grow powerful and rich,

Ezekiel 18:12

oppresses the poor and needy, commits robbery, does not give back a pledge, raises his eyes to idols, does abominable things,

Ezekiel 20:35

I will lead you to the wilderness of the peoples and enter into judgment with you face to face.

Ezekiel 20:36

Just as I entered into judgment with your ancestors in the wilderness of the land of Egypt, so will I enter into judgment with you—oracle of the Lord God.

Leviticus 25:14

Therefore, when you sell any land to your neighbor or buy any from your neighbor, do not deal unfairly with one another.

Leviticus 25:17

Do not deal unfairly with one another, then; but stand in fear of your God. I, the Lord, am your God.

Amos 2:7

They trample the heads of the destitute into the dust of the earth, and force the lowly out of the way. Son and father sleep with the same girl, profaning my holy name.

Amos 4:1

Hear this word, you cows of Bashan, who live on the mount of Samaria: Who oppress the destitute and abuse the needy; Who say to your husbands, “Bring us a drink!”

Micah 2:1

Ah! you plotters of iniquity, who work out evil on your beds! In the morning light you carry it out for it lies within your power.

Micah 2:2

You covet fields, and seize them; houses, and take them; You cheat owners of their houses, people of their inheritance.

Micah 3:3

Who eat the flesh of my people, flay their skin from them, and break their bones; Who chop them in pieces like flesh in a kettle, like meat in a pot.

Micah 6:10

Am I to bear criminal hoarding and the accursed short ephah?

Matthew 21:33

“Hear another parable. There was a landowner who planted a vineyard, put a hedge around it, dug a wine press in it, and built a tower. Then he leased it to tenants and went on a journey.

James 2:6

But you dishonored the poor person. Are not the rich oppressing you? And do they themselves not haul you off to court?