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Isaiah 3:15

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What do you mean by crushing my people and grinding the faces of the poor?” declares the Lord, the Lord Almighty.

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They crush your people, Lord; they oppress your inheritance.

And Pharaoh’s slave drivers beat the Israelite overseers they had appointed, demanding, “Why haven’t you met your quota of bricks yesterday or today, as before?”

those whose teeth are swords and whose jaws are set with knives to devour the poor from the earth and the needy from among mankind.

to deprive the poor of their rights and withhold justice from the oppressed of my people, making widows their prey and robbing the fatherless.

The poorest of the poor will find pasture, and the needy will lie down in safety. But your root I will destroy by famine; it will slay your survivors.

Feet trample it down— the feet of the oppressed, the footsteps of the poor.

Once more the humble will rejoice in the Lord; the needy will rejoice in the Holy One of Israel.

Therefore this is what the Holy One of Israel says: “Because you have rejected this message, relied on oppression and depended on deceit,

For fools speak folly, their hearts are bent on evil: They practice ungodliness and spread error concerning the Lord; the hungry they leave empty and from the thirsty they withhold water.

The vineyard of the Lord Almighty is the nation of Israel, and the people of Judah are the vines he delighted in. And he looked for justice, but saw bloodshed; for righteousness, but heard cries of distress.

Your fasting ends in quarreling and strife, and in striking each other with wicked fists. You cannot fast as you do today and expect your voice to be heard on high.

He said, “Surely they are my people, children who will be true to me”; and so he became their Savior.

“What do you people mean by quoting this proverb about the land of Israel: “ ‘The parents eat sour grapes, and the children’s teeth are set on edge’?

The captain went to him and said, “How can you sleep? Get up and call on your god! Maybe he will take notice of us so that we will not perish.”




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