Isaiah 3:15 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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¹⁵What mean ye that ye beat my people to pieces, and grind the faces of the poor? saith the Lord GOD of hosts.

Isaiah 3:15 —

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Cross-References

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Psalms 94:5
They break in pieces thy people, O LORD, and afflict thine heritage.
Micah 3:2-3
Who hate the good, and love the evil; who pluck off their skin from off them, and their flesh from off their bones; …
Amos 8:4-6
Hear this, O ye that swallow up the needy, even to make the poor of the land to fail, …
Amos 2:6-7
Thus saith the LORD; For three transgressions of Israel, and for four, I will not turn away the punishment thereof; because they sold the righteous for silver, and the poor for a pair of shoes; …
Ezekiel 18:2
What mean ye, that ye use this proverb concerning the land of Israel, saying, The fathers have eaten sour grapes, and the children's teeth are set on edge?

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Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 9-15)

Here God proceeds in his controversy with his people. Observe, I. The ground of his controversy. It was for sin that God contended with them; if they vex themselves, let them look a little further and they will see that they must thank themselves: Woe unto their souls! For they have rewarded evil unto themselves. Alas for their souls! (so it may be read, in a way of lamentation), for they have pro…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 15)

15. What right have ye to beat, &c. (Psa 94:5; Mi 3:2, 3). grind--by exactions, so as to leave them nothing. faces--persons; with the additional idea of it being openly and palpably done. “Presence,” equivalent to “face” (Hebrew).