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 Yahweh of Armies, the land is burnt up; and the people are the fuel for the fire. No one spares his brother.

The envy also of Ephraim will depart, and those who persecute Judah will be cut off. Ephraim won't envy Judah, and Judah won't persecute Ephraim.

They bend their tongue, [as it were] their bow, for falsehood; and they are grown strong in the land, but not for truth: for they proceed from evil to evil, and they don't know me, says Yahweh.

But your eyes and your heart are not but for your covetousness, and for shedding innocent blood, and for oppression, and for violence, to do it.

Behold, the princes of Israel, everyone according to his power, have been in you to shed blood.

Listen to this word, you cows of Bashan, who are on the mountain of Samaria, who oppress the poor, who crush the needy, who tell their husbands, "Bring us drinks!"

I said, "Please listen, you heads of Jacob, and rulers of the house of Israel: Isn't it for you to know justice?

"Thus has Yahweh of Armies spoken, saying, 'Execute true judgment, and show kindness and compassion every man to his brother.

I will come near to you to judgment; and I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers, and against the adulterers, and against the perjurers, and against those who oppress the hireling in his wages, the widow, and the fatherless, and who deprive the foreigner of justice, and don't fear me," says Yahweh of Armies.

But you have dishonored the poor man. Don't the rich oppress you, and personally drag you before the courts?

Behold, the wages of the laborers who mowed your fields, which you have kept back by fraud, cry out, and the cries of those who reaped have entered into the ears of the Lord of Armies.

Child

Ah sinful nation, a people loaded with iniquity, a seed of evildoers, children who deal corruptly! They have forsaken Yahweh. They have despised the Holy One of Israel. They are estranged and backward.

"'You shall rise up before the gray head, and honor the face of an old man, and you shall fear your God. I am Yahweh.

He went up from there to Bethel. As he was going up by the way, some youths came out of the city and mocked him, and said to him, "Go up, you baldy! Go up, you baldhead!"

"But now those who are younger than I have me in derision, whose fathers I would have disdained to put with my sheep dogs.

Base

When king David came to Bahurim, behold, a man of the family of the house of Saul came out, whose name was Shimei, the son of Gera. He came out, and cursed still as he came.

There is an evil which I have seen under the sun, the sort of error which proceeds from the ruler.

Then they spit in his face and beat him with their fists, and some slapped him,

They stripped him, and put a scarlet robe on him.

Some began to spit on him, and to cover his face, and to beat him with fists, and to tell him, "Prophesy!" The officers struck him with the palms of their hands.

Having blindfolded him, they struck him on the face and asked him, "Prophesy! Who is the one who struck you?"

General references

"'You shall rise up before the gray head, and honor the face of an old man, and you shall fear your God. I am Yahweh.

Moses sent to call Dathan and Abiram, the sons of Eliab; and they said, "We won't come up: