🕊️WEB · Isaiah 3:15

What does Isaiah 3:15 mean?

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

— Isaiah 3:15 (World English Bible)

Surrounding context

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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.

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

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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.

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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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therefore the Lord brings sores on the crown of the head of the women of Zion, and Yahweh will make their scalps bald.”

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In that day the Lord will take away the beauty of their anklets, the headbands, the crescent necklaces,

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