Scripture · Old Testament
Isaiah 3:14
Isaiah 3:14 is verse 14 of Isaiah chapter 3, shown here in the Berean Standard Bible.
Berean Standard Bible
The LORD brings this charge against the elders and leaders of His people: “You have devoured the vineyard; the plunder of the poor is in your houses.
King James Version
The LORD will enter into judgment with the ancients of his people, and the princes thereof: for ye have eaten up the vineyard; the spoil of the poor is in your houses.
World English Bible
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.
Read in context
Isaiah 3:12–16 · Berean Standard Bible
12 Youths oppress My people, and women rule over them. O My people, your guides mislead you; they turn you from your paths.
13 The LORD arises to contend; He stands to judge the people.
14 The LORD brings this charge against the elders and leaders of His people: “You have devoured the vineyard; the plunder of the poor is in your houses.
15 Why do you crush My people and grind the faces of the poor?” declares the Lord GOD of Hosts.
16 The LORD also says: “Because the daughters of Zion are haughty— walking with heads held high and wanton eyes, prancing and skipping as they go, jingling the bracelets on their ankles—
Read all of Isaiah 3Hebrew words
Data created by STEPBible.org based on work at Tyndale House Cambridge (CC BY 4.0).
Study Isaiah 3:14
Cross-references
The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge lists these related verses. Scripture text comes from the Berean Standard Bible.
Job 22:4Is it for your reverence that He rebukes you and enters into judgment against you?
Job 34:23For God need not examine a man further or have him approach for judgment.
Psalms 143:2Do not bring Your servant into judgment, for no one alive is righteous before You.
Isaiah 3:2the mighty man and the warrior, the judge and the prophet, the soothsayer and the elder,
Isaiah 3:3the commander of fifty and the dignitary, the counselor, the cunning magician, and the clever enchanter.
Isaiah 5:7For the vineyard of the LORD of Hosts is the house of Israel, and the men of Judah are the plant of His delight. He looked for justice, but saw bloodshed; for righteousness, but heard a cry of distress.
Job 24:2Men move boundary stones; they pasture stolen flocks.
Job 24:3They drive away the donkey of the fatherless and take the widow’s ox in pledge.
Job 24:4They push the needy off the road and force all the poor of the land into hiding.
Job 24:5Indeed, like wild donkeys in the desert, the poor go to work foraging for food; the wasteland is food for their children.
Job 24:6They gather fodder in the fields and glean the vineyards of the wicked.
Job 24:7Without clothing, they spend the night naked; they have no covering against the cold.
Jeremiah 5:27Like cages full of birds, so their houses are full of deceit. Therefore they have become powerful and rich.
Amos 4:1Hear this word, you cows of Bashan on Mount Samaria, you women who oppress the poor and crush the needy, who say to your husbands, “Bring us more to drink.”
Micah 2:2They covet fields and seize them; they take away houses. They deprive a man of his home, a fellow man of his inheritance.
Micah 6:10Can I forget any longer, O house of the wicked, the treasures of wickedness and the short ephah, which is accursed?
Matthew 21:33Listen to another parable: There was a landowner who planted a vineyard. He put a wall around it, dug a winepress in it, and built a tower. Then he rented it out to some tenants and went away on a journey.