Isaiah 3:15

In 11 translations

BSB

Why do you crush My people and grind the faces of the poor?” declares the Lord GOD of Hosts.

KJV

What mean ye that ye beat my people to pieces, and grind the faces of the poor? saith the Lord GOD of hosts.

WEB

What do you mean that you crush my people, and grind the face of the poor?” says the Lord, Yahweh of Armies.

ASV

what mean ye that ye crush my people, and grind the face of the poor? saith the Lord, Jehovah of hosts.

LSV

Why? Why do you [do this]? You bruise My people, || And you grind the faces of the poor.” A declaration of the Lord, YHWH of Hosts, || And YHWH says:

YLT

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:

DBY

What mean ye that ye crush my people, and grind the faces of the afflicted? saith the Lord, Jehovah of hosts.

DRC

Why do you consume my people, and grind the faces of the poor? saith the Lord the God of hosts.

GNV

What haue ye to do, that ye beate my people to pieces, and grinde the faces of the poore, saith the Lord, euen the Lord of hoasts?

JPS

What mean ye that ye crush My people, and grind the face of the poor?' saith the Lord, the GOD of hosts.

LXXE

Why do ye wrong my people, and shame the face of the poor?

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WLC

מלכם תְּדַכְּא֣וּ עַמִּ֔י וּפְנֵ֥י עֲנִיִּ֖ים תִּטְחָ֑נוּ נְאֻם־אֲדֹנָ֥י יְהוִ֖ה צְבָאֽוֹת׃Read aloud as (qere): מַה לָּכֶם֙Adaptations to a Qere which L and BHS, by their design, do not indicate.

LXX-Br

Τί ὑμεῖς ἀδικεῖτε τὸν λαόν μου, καὶ τὸ πρόσωπον τῶν πτωχῶν καταισχύνετε;

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Cross-references most cited first

• Psalms 94:5They crush Your people, O LORD; they oppress Your heritage.
• Micah 3:2–3You hate good and love evil. You tear the skin from my people and strip the flesh from their bones. You eat the flesh of my people after stripping off their skin and breaking their bones. You chop them up like flesh…
• Amos 8:4–6Hear this, you who trample the needy, who do away with the poor of the land, asking, “When will the New Moon be over, that we may sell grain? When will the Sabbath end, that we may market wheat? Let us reduce the ephah…
• Amos 2:6–7This is what the LORD says: “For three transgressions of Israel, even four, I will not revoke My judgment, because they sell the righteous for silver and the needy for a pair of sandals. They trample on the heads of…
• Exodus 5:14Then the Israelite foremen, whom Pharaoh’s taskmasters had set over the people, were beaten and asked, “Why have you not fulfilled your quota of bricks yesterday or today, as you did before?”
• Isaiah 58:4You fast with contention and strife to strike viciously with your fist. You cannot fast as you do today and have your voice be heard on high.
• Ezekiel 18:2“What do you people mean by quoting this proverb about the land of Israel: ‘The fathers have eaten sour grapes, and the teeth of the children are set on edge’?
• Jonah 1:6The captain approached him and said, “How can you sleep? Get up and call upon your God. Perhaps this God will consider us, so that we may not perish.”

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