KJV King James Version
What mean ye [that] ye beat my people to pieces, and grind the faces of the poor? saith the Lord GOD of hosts.
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Isaiah 3:15
What mean ye [that] ye beat my people to pieces, and grind the faces of the poor? saith the Lord GOD of hosts.
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BSB Berean Standard Bible
Why do you crush My people and grind the faces of the poor?” declares the Lord GOD of Hosts.
WEB World English Bible
What do you mean that you crush my people, and grind the face of the poor?” says the Lord, Yahweh of Armies.
ASV American Standard Version
what mean ye that ye crush my people, and grind the face of the poor? saith the Lord, Jehovah of hosts.
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
What—to you? ye bruise My people, And the faces of the poor ye grind.’ An affirmation of the Lord, Jehovah of Hosts, And Jehovah saith:
Surrounding context — Isaiah 3
12 [As for] my people, children [are] their oppressors, and women rule over them. O my people, they which lead thee cause [thee] to err, and destroy the way of thy paths.
13 The LORD standeth up to plead, and standeth to judge the people.
14 The LORD will enter into judgment with the ancients of his people, and the princes thereof: for ye have eaten up the vineyard; the spoil of the poor [is] in your houses.
15 What mean ye [that] ye beat my people to pieces, and grind the faces of the poor? saith the Lord GOD of hosts.
16 Moreover the LORD saith, Because the daughters of Zion are haughty, and walk with stretched forth necks and wanton eyes, walking and mincing [as] they go, and making a tinkling with their feet:
17 Therefore the Lord will smite with a scab the crown of the head of the daughters of Zion, and the LORD will discover their secret parts.
18 In that day the Lord will take away the bravery of [their] tinkling ornaments [about their feet], and [their] cauls, and [their] round tires like the moon,
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These Hebrew/Greek tokens are linked by Strong's number. Click one for its lexicon definition and other occurrences.
מַה־לָּכֶם֙H4100 · mahwhat?תְּדַכְּא֣וּH1792 · da.kahto crushעַמִּ֔יH5971 · ampeopleוּפְנֵ֥יH6440 · pa.nehface: beforeעֲנִיִּ֖יםH6041 · a.niafflictedתִּטְחָ֑נוּH2912 · ta.chanto grindנְאֻם־H5002 · ne.umutteranceאֲדֹנָ֥יH136 · a.do.naiLordיְהוִ֖הH3069 · ye.ho.vihYHWH/Godצְבָאֽוֹת׃ סH6635 · tsa.vaarmy
Cross-references
Micah 3:2-3Who hate the good, and love the evil; who pluck off their skin from off them, and their flesh from off their bones;Psalm 94:5They break in pieces thy people, O LORD, and afflict thine heritage.Amos 8:4-6Hear this, O ye that swallow up the needy, even to make the poor of the land to fail,Amos 2:6-7Thus saith the LORD; For three transgressions of Israel, and for four, I will not turn away [the punishment] thereof; because they sold the righteous for silver, and the poor for a pair of shoes;Exodus 5:14And the officers of the children of Israel, which Pharaoh’s taskmasters had set over them, were beaten, [and] demanded, Wherefore have ye not fulfilled your task in making brick both yesterday and to day, as heretofore?Ezekiel 18:2What mean ye, that ye use this proverb concerning the land of Israel, saying, The fathers have eaten sour grapes, and the children’s teeth are set on edge?Isaiah 58:4Behold, ye fast for strife and debate, and to smite with the fist of wickedness: ye shall not fast as [ye do this] day, to make your voice to be heard on high.Jonah 1:6So the shipmaster came to him, and said unto him, What meanest thou, O sleeper? arise, call upon thy God, if so be that God will think upon us, that we perish not.
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