Isaiah 3:5

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Summary

And the people shall be oppressed, every one by another, and every one by his neighbour: the child shall behave himself proudly against the ancient, and the base against the honourable.

The people

Child

Base

General references

Leviticus 19:32

Numbers 16:12

Bible References

The people

Through the wrath of the LORD of the hosts the land is darkened, and the people shall be as the fuel of the fire; no man shall spare his brother.

The envy also of Ephraim shall depart, and the adversaries of Judah shall be cut off; Ephraim shall not envy Judah, and Judah shall not vex Ephraim.

And they bend their tongues like their bow for lies, but they are not valiant for the truth upon the earth for they proceed from evil to evil, and they did not recognize me, said the LORD.

But thine eyes and thine heart are not but for thy covetousness and for to shed innocent blood and for oppression and for violence, to do it.

Behold, the princes of Israel, each one according to their power, were in thee to shed blood.

Hear this word, ye cows of Bashan, that are in the mountain of Samaria, who oppress the poor, who crush the needy, who say to their masters, Bring, and let us drink.

And I said, Hear, I pray you, O princes of Jacob, and ye heads of the house of Israel. Did it not pertain to you to know that which is right?

Thus hath the LORD of the hosts spoken, saying, Execute true judgment, and show mercy and compassion each one to his brother;

And I will come near unto you for judgment; and I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers and against the adulterers and against false swearers and against those that oppress the hireling in his wages, the widow, and the fatherless, and that turn aside the stranger from his right, and do not fear me, said the LORD of the hosts.

But ye have despised the poor. Do not the rich oppress you with tyranny and draw you with violence to the courts?

Behold, the hire of the labourers who have reaped your fields (which you have kept back by fraud) cries out; and the cries of those who have reaped have entered into the ears of the Lord of the hosts.

Child

O sinful nation, people laden with iniquity, generation of evildoers, corrupt sons! They have forsaken the LORD; they have provoked the Holy One of Israel unto anger; they have turned back.

Thou shalt rise up before grey hair and honour the face of the elder and fear thy God. I am the LORD.

Then he went up from there unto Bethel, and as he was going up by the way, the young men of the city came forth and mocked him, saying, Go up, thou bald head; go up, thou bald head.

But now those that are younger than I have me in derision, whose fathers I would have disdained to have set with the dogs of my flock.

Base

And when King David came to Bahurim, behold, a man of the family of the house of Saul came forth, whose name was Shimei, the son of Gera; he came forth cursing

There is another evil which I have seen under the sun, as an error which proceeds from the ruler:

Then they spit in his face and buffeted him, and others smote him with the staves,

And they stripped him and put on him a scarlet robe.

And some began to spit on him and to cover his face and to buffet him and to say unto him, Prophesy. And the servants struck him with the palms of their hands.

And when they had blindfolded him, they struck him on the face and asked him, saying, Prophesy, who is it that smote thee?

General references

Thou shalt rise up before grey hair and honour the face of the elder and fear thy God. I am the LORD.

And Moses sent to call Dathan and Abiram, the sons of Eliab, but they replied, We will not come up.