Isaiah 3:14

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

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 it because of your piety that he rebukes you and goes to judgment with you?

For he does not still consider a person, that he should come before God in judgment.

Do not sit in judgment on your servant, for no one alive is innocent before you.

The ancients

the mighty men and warriors, judges and prophets, omen readers and leaders,

Ye have eaten

Indeed Israel is the vineyard of the Lord who commands armies, the people of Judah are the cultivated place in which he took delight. He waited for justice, but look what he got -- disobedience! He waited for fairness, but look what he got -- cries for help!

Men move boundary stones; they seize the flock and pasture them.

Like a cage filled with the birds that have been caught, their houses are filled with the gains of their fraud and deceit. That is how they have gotten so rich and powerful.

Listen to this message, you cows of Bashan who live on Mount Samaria! You oppress the poor; you crush the needy. You say to your husbands, "Bring us more to drink!"

They confiscate the fields they desire, and seize the houses they want. They defraud people of their homes, and deprive people of the land they have inherited.

"I will not overlook, O sinful house, the dishonest gain you have hoarded away, or the smaller-than-standard measure I hate so much.

"Listen to another parable: There was a landowner who planted a vineyard. He put a fence around it, dug a pit for its winepress, and built a watchtower. Then he leased it to tenant farmers and went on a journey.

General references

If you make a sale to your fellow citizen or buy from your fellow citizen, no one is to wrong his brother.