Isaiah 3:14

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Summary

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.

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Job 22:4

Job 34:23

Psalm 143:2

The ancients

Isaiah 3:2

Ye have eaten

Matthew 21:33

General references

Leviticus 25:14

Bible References

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Is he afraid to reprove thee, and to step forth with thee into judgment?

For no man shall be suffered to go into judgment with God.

And enter not into judgment with thy servant; for in thy sight shall no man living be justified.

The ancients

the captain and the soldier, the judge and the prophet, the wise and the aged man,

Ye have eaten

As for the vineyard of the LORD of Hosts, it is the house of Israel, and whole Judah his fair planting. Of these he looked for equity, but see there is wrong; for righteousness, lo, it is but misery.

For some men there be, that remove other men's landmarks; that rob them of their cattle, and keep the same for their own;

And like as a net is full of birds, so are their houses full of that which they have gotten with falsity and deceit. Hereof cometh their great substance and riches,

O hear this word, ye fat cows, that be upon the hill of Samaria; yea, that do poor men wrong, and oppress the needy; yea, that say to your lords, 'Bring hither, let us drink.'

When they covet to have land, they take it by violence; they rob men of their houses. Thus they oppress a man for his house, and every man for his heritage.

Should I not be displeased, for the unrighteous good in the houses of the wicked and because the measure is diminished?

"Hearken another similitude. There was a certain householder, which planted a vineyard, and hedged it round about, and made a winepress in it, and built a tower, and let it out to husbandmen, and went into a strange country:

General references

"'When thou sellest ought unto thy neighbour or buyest of thy neighbour's hand, ye shall not oppress one another: