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Isaiah 3:14

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The Lord will enter into judgment With the elders of His people And His princes: “For you have eaten up the vineyard; The plunder of the poor is in your houses.

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“Is it because of your fear of Him that He corrects you, And enters into judgment with you?

The murderer rises with the light; He kills the poor and needy; And in the night he is like a thief.

“Some snatch the fatherless from the breast, And take a pledge from the poor.

For He need not further consider a man, That he should go before God in judgment.

He lies in wait secretly, as a lion in his den; He lies in wait to catch the poor; He catches the poor when he draws him into his net.

Have all the workers of iniquity no knowledge, Who eat up my people as they eat bread, And do not call on the Lord?

Do not enter into judgment with Your servant, For in Your sight no one living is righteous.

There is a generation whose teeth are like swords, And whose fangs are like knives, To devour the poor from off the earth, And the needy from among men.

“Woe to those who decree unrighteous decrees, Who write misfortune, Which they have prescribed

To rob the needy of justice, And to take what is right from the poor of My people, That widows may be their prey, And that they may rob the fatherless.

But with righteousness He shall judge the poor, And decide with equity for the meek of the earth; He shall strike the earth with the rod of His mouth, And with the breath of His lips He shall slay the wicked.

The firstborn of the poor will feed, And the needy will lie down in safety; I will kill your roots with famine, And it will slay your remnant.

The foot shall tread it down— The feet of the poor And the steps of the needy.”

The humble also shall increase their joy in the Lord, And the poor among men shall rejoice In the Holy One of Israel.

Therefore thus says the Holy One of Israel: “Because you despise this word, And trust in oppression and perversity, And rely on them,

For the vineyard of the Lord of hosts is the house of Israel, And the men of Judah are His pleasant plant. He looked for justice, but behold, oppression; For righteousness, but behold, a cry for help.

Indeed you fast for strife and debate, And to strike with the fist of wickedness. You will not fast as you do this day, To make your voice heard on high.

“Many rulers have destroyed My vineyard, They have trodden My portion underfoot; They have made My pleasant portion a desolate wilderness.

As a cage is full of birds, So their houses are full of deceit. Therefore they have become great and grown rich.

If he has oppressed the poor and needy, Robbed by violence, Not restored the pledge, Lifted his eyes to the idols, Or committed abomination;

And I will bring you into the wilderness of the peoples, and there I will plead My case with you face to face.

Just as I pleaded My case with your fathers in the wilderness of the land of Egypt, so I will plead My case with you,” says the Lord God.

And if you sell anything to your neighbor or buy from your neighbor’s hand, you shall not oppress one another.

Therefore you shall not oppress one another, but you shall fear your God; for I am the Lord your God.

They pant after the dust of the earth which is on the head of the poor, And pervert the way of the humble. A man and his father go in to the same girl, To defile My holy name.

Hear this word, you cows of Bashan, who are on the mountain of Samaria, Who oppress the poor, Who crush the needy, Who say to your husbands, “Bring wine, let us drink!”

Woe to those who devise iniquity, And work out evil on their beds! At morning light they practice it, Because it is in the power of their hand.

They covet fields and take them by violence, Also houses, and seize them. So they oppress a man and his house, A man and his inheritance.

Who also eat the flesh of My people, Flay their skin from them, Break their bones, And chop them in pieces Like meat for the pot, Like flesh in the caldron.”

Are there yet the treasures of wickedness In the house of the wicked, And the short measure that is an abomination?

“Hear another parable: There was a certain landowner who planted a vineyard and set a hedge around it, dug a winepress in it and built a tower. And he leased it to vinedressers and went into a far country.

But you have dishonored the poor man. Do not the rich oppress you and drag you into the courts?




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