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Webster
What mean ye that ye beat my people to pieces, and grind the faces of the poor? saith the Lord GOD of hosts.
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 -
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.
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:
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Word Count of 20 Translations in Isaiah 3:15
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Context Readings
Leaders Of Judah And Jerusalem
14 The LORD will enter into judgment with the elders of his people, and with their princes: 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 extended necks and wanton eyes, walking and mincing as they go, and making a tinkling with their feet:
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Cross References
Psalm 94:5
They break in pieces thy people, O LORD, and afflict thy heritage.
Exodus 5:14
And the officers of the children of Israel, which Pharaoh's task-masters had set over them, were beaten, and demanded, Why have ye not fulfilled your task in making brick, both yesterday and to-day, as heretofore?
Isaiah 58:4
Behold, 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.
Ezekiel 18:2
What 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?
Amos 2:6-7
Thus saith the LORD; For three transgressions of Israel, and for four, I will not turn away their punishment: because they sold the righteous for silver, and the poor for a pair of shoes;
Amos 8:4-6
Hear this, O ye that swallow up the needy, even to make the poor of the land to fail,
Jonah 1:6
So the ship-master came to him, and said to him, What meanest thou, O sleeper? arise, call upon thy God, it may be that God will think upon us, that we perish not.
Micah 3:2-3
Who hate the good, and love the evil; who pluck off their skin from them, and their flesh from off their bones;