Parallel Verses
Youngs 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:
New American Standard Bible
And grinding the face of the poor?”
Declares the Lord
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.
Holman Bible
and grind the faces of the poor?”
This is the declaration
of the Lord God of Hosts.
International Standard Version
How dare you crush my people as you grind down the face of the poor?" declares the Lord GOD of the Heavenly Armies.
A Conservative Version
What do ye mean that ye crush my people, and grind the face of the poor? says the Lord, LORD of hosts.
American Standard Version
what mean ye that ye crush my people, and grind the face of the poor? saith the Lord, Jehovah of hosts.
Amplified
“What do you mean by crushing My people
And grinding the face of the poor?”
Declares the Lord God of hosts.
Bible in Basic English
By what right are you crushing my people, and putting a bitter yoke on the necks of the poor? This is the word of the Lord, the Lord of armies.
Darby Translation
What mean ye that ye crush my people, and grind the faces of the afflicted? saith the Lord, Jehovah of hosts.
Julia Smith Translation
Why will ye crush my people and grind the faces of the poor? says the Lord Jehovah of armies.
King James 2000
What do you mean that you beat my people to pieces, and grind the faces of the poor? says the Lord GOD of hosts.
Lexham Expanded Bible
{Why} do you crush my people and grind [the] face of [the] poor?" {declares} the Lord Yahweh of hosts.
Modern King James verseion
What do you mean? You crush My people and grind the faces of the poor? says the Lord, Jehovah of Hosts.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
Wherefore do ye oppress my people, and mar the faces of the innocents?" Thus shall the LORD God of Hosts revile them.
NET Bible
Why do you crush my people and grind the faces of the poor?" The sovereign Lord who commands armies has spoken.
New Heart English Bible
What do you mean that you crush my people, and grind the face of the poor?" says the Lord, the LORD of hosts.
The Emphasized Bible
What right have ye to crush my people, And the faces of the oppressed, to grind? Demandeth My Lord Yahweh of hosts - And Yahweh saith -
Webster
What mean ye that ye beat my people to pieces, and grind the faces of the poor? saith the Lord GOD of hosts.
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.
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Word Count of 20 Translations in Isaiah 3:15
Verse Info
Context Readings
Leaders Of Judah And Jerusalem
14 Jehovah into judgment doth enter With elders of His people, and its heads: 'And ye, ye have consumed the vineyard, Plunder of the poor is in your houses. 15 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: 16 Because that daughters of Zion have been haughty, And they walk stretching out the neck, And deceiving with the eyes, Walking and mincing they go, And with their feet they make a tinkling,
Phrases
Names
Cross References
Psalm 94:5
Thy people, O Jehovah, they bruise, And Thine inheritance they afflict.
Exodus 5:14
And the authorities of the sons of Israel, whom the exactors of Pharaoh have placed over them, are beaten, saying, 'Wherefore have ye not completed your portion in making brick as heretofore, both yesterday and to-day?'
Isaiah 58:4
Lo, for strife and debate ye fast, And to smite with the fist of wickedness, Ye fast not as to -day, To sound in the high place your voice.
Ezekiel 18:2
What -- to you, ye -- using this simile Concerning the ground of Israel, saying: Fathers do eat unripe fruit, And the sons' teeth are blunted?
Amos 2:6-7
Thus said Jehovah: For three transgressions of Israel, And for four, I do not reverse it, Because of their selling for silver the righteous, And the needy for a pair of sandals.
Amos 8:4-6
Hear this, ye who are swallowing up the needy, To cause to cease the poor of the land,
Jonah 1:6
And the chief of the company draweth near to him, and saith to him, 'What -- to thee, O sleeper? rise, call unto thy God, it may be God doth bethink himself of us, and we do not perish.'
Micah 3:2-3
Ye who are hating good, and loving evil, Taking violently their skin from off them, And their flesh from off their bones,