🕊️WEB · Isaiah 3:13

What does Isaiah 3:13 mean?

"Yahweh stands up to contend, and stands to judge the peoples."

— Isaiah 3:13 (World English Bible)

Surrounding context

10

Tell the righteous “Good!” For they shall eat the fruit of their deeds.

11

Woe to the wicked! Disaster is upon them; for the deeds of his hands will be paid back to him.

12

As for my people, children are their oppressors, and women rule over them. My people, those who lead you cause you to err, and destroy the way of your paths.

13

Yahweh stands up to contend, and stands to judge the peoples.

14

Yahweh will enter into judgment with the elders of his people, and their leaders: “It is you who have eaten up the vineyard. The plunder of the poor is in your houses.

15

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

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Moreover Yahweh said, “Because the daughters of Zion are haughty, and walk with outstretched necks and flirting eyes, walking to trip as they go, jingling ornaments on their feet;

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