What mean ye that ye beat my people to pieces, and grind the faces of the poor? saith the Lord GOD of hosts.
What mean ye (that) ye beat my people to pieces? - What right have ye to beat? etc (; Micah 3:2.)
Grind - by exactions, so as to leave them nothing.
The faces of the poor. "Faces," the persons, with the additional idea of it being openly and palpably done. Presence is expressed by 'face.'
Verse Isaiah 3:15. _AND GRIND THE FACES_] The expression and the image is strong, to denote grievous oppression but is exceeded by the prophet Micah, Micah 3:1: - "Hear, I pray you, ye chiefs of Jaco...
WHAT MEAN YE - What is your object? Or, What advantage is it to you? Or, By what right or pretence do you do this? BEAT MY PEOPLE TO PIECES - That is, that you trample on them; or cruelly oppress the...
CHAPTER 3 Judgments upon the Rulers and the Daughters Of Zion 1. _The judgment against the rulers (Isaiah 3:1)_ 2. _Jerusalem's sad condition (Isaiah 3:8)_ 3. _Jehovah's message (Isaiah 3:10)_ 4. The...
YAHWEH JUDGES THE RULERS. Probably an independent oracle, presumably, though not certainly, uttered early in Isaiah's career. Yahweh has taken up the cause of the wronged, and calls elders and princes...
BEAT. crush. SAITH. is the oracle of. the Lord....
AS FOR MY PEOPLE, &C.— In these verses the prophet describes the incapacity and weakness, the ignorance and corruption, the oppression and cruelty of the priests and rulers of the people; such as we l...
CHAPTER THREE 3. THE VENGEANCE UPON DECADENCE Isaiah 3:1 to Isaiah 4:1 a. THE WEALTHY TEXT: Isaiah 3:1-15 1 For, behold, the Lord, Jehovah of hosts, doth take away from Jerusalem and from Judah s...
1. STAY AND THE STAFF] A prophecy of famine: cp. Isaiah 3:7, as the clause following explains. But if the latter clause is a gloss then 'stay and staff' would refer to the classes upon which the stabi...
God warns the leaders in particular that he is well aware of their wicked practices. GOD WARNS WOMEN IN *JERUSALEM V16 Look at those women in *Jerusalem! They walk about so proudly. In the street t...
ISAIAH: GOD CONTROLS THE NATIONS ISAIAH DECLARES HOW GOD’S PEOPLE SHOULD BE LIVING ISAIAH CHAPTER S 1 TO 9 _NORMAN HILLYER_ CHAPTER 3 DESPAIR IN *JERUSALEM V1 See what the *Lord (commander of...
_מַּה_†־_לָּכֶם֙_† תְּדַכְּא֣וּ עַמִּ֔י וּ פְנֵ֥י עֲנִיִּ֖ים...
CHAPTER II THE THREE JERUSALEMS 740-735 B.C. Isaiah 2:1; Isaiah 3:1; Isaiah 4:1 AFTER the general introduction, in chapter 1, to the prophecies of Isaiah, there comes another portion of the book, o...
VANITY AND SELFISH LUXURY CONDEMNED Isaiah 3:13-26; Isaiah 4:1-6 This paragraph opens with the majestic figure of Jehovah Himself, who arises to judge the misrulers and plead the cause of the poor. T...
The prophet now deals with judgment in greater detail, and shows how it will proceed against the rulers and against the women. The judgment in the case of the rulers is to be the destruction of true g...
What mean ye [that] ye beat my people to pieces, (m) and grind the faces of the poor? saith the Lord GOD of hosts. (m) That is, you show all cruelty against them....
Reader! do not fail to observe, both indeed in this place, and through the word of God at large, that amidst all the backslidings of Israel, the Lord still keeps up the remembrance of their relationsh...
15._What mean ye that ye beat my people to pieces? _He mentions also other particulars, from which it is evident that they ruled in a haughty, cruel and oppressive manner. It was not necessary that th...
THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 2, 3, AND 4. Thus re-established, Zion, the mountain of Jehovah, will be the centre of blessing and peace to all the nations (Isaiah 2:1-4). This puts the inv...
WHAT MEAN YE, [THAT] YE BEAT MY PEOPLE TO PIECES,.... Reduce them to the utmost poverty; so the Targum, "wherefore do ye impoverish my people?'' as they did by exacting tithes of all that they posse...
_What mean ye [that] ye beat my people to pieces, and grind the faces of the poor? saith the Lord GOD of hosts._ Ver. 15. _What mean you, that you beat my people to pieces?_] Heb., What to you? all i...
_The Lord standeth up to plead_ He will shortly and certainly stand up as a judge to inquire into the cause, and to give sentence; _and standeth to judge the people_ To call the wicked into judgment,...
THE VANITY OF THE WOMEN OF JERUSALEM...
What mean ye that ye beat My people to pieces, crushing them with the most severe tyranny, AND GRIND THE FACES OF THE POOR? in trampling them under foot, SAITH THE LORD GOD OF HOSTS. That is a special...
10-15 The rule was certain; however there might be national prosperity or trouble, it would be well with the righteous and ill with the wicked. Blessed be God, there is abundant encouragement to the...
WHAT MEAN YE? what warrant have ye for it? how durst you presume to do it? GRIND, or _batter_, as the word is used, EXODUS 32:20; smite them cruelly: see ISAIAH 58:4....
Isaiah 3:15 crushing H1792 (H8762) people H5971 grinding H2912 (H8799) faces H6440 poor H6041 Says H5002 ...
THE FAILURE OF THE LEADERS OF THE PEOPLE (ISAIAH 3:12). Isaiah 3:12 ‘As for my people, children are their oppressors (taskmasters), And women rule over them. O my people, those who should set you...
CONTENTS: The coming desolations of Jerusalem because of sin and the judgment of sinners. CHARACTERS: God, Isaiah. CONCLUSION: Whatever evil befalls sinners, it is of their own procuring. Those who...
Isaiah 3:1. _Behold, the Lord doth take away from Jerusalem the whole stay of bread._ This threatening is understood of the Chaldean invasion in the reign of Jechoniah, and after the death of king Jos...
_The Lord standeth up to plead_ GOD’S CONTROVERSY The management of this controversy. I. GOD HIMSELF IS THE PROSECUTOR. II. THE INDICTMENT IS PROVED BY THE NOTORIOUS EVIDENCE OF THE FACT (Isaiah 3...
OPPRESSION OF THE POOR Isaiah 3:15. _What mean ye that ye beat my people to pieces, and grind the faces of the poor? saith the Lord God of hosts_. That infidelity should progress among the labouring...
THE PLEADER AND THE JUDGE Isaiah 3:13. _The Lord standeth up to plead, &c._ I. THE PLEADER WHO HERE PRESENTS HIMSELF. Note 1. HIS MAJESTY. The ancient idea of an advocate was that of a venerable per...
EXPOSITION ISAIAH 3:1 GOD'S JUDGMENT UPON JERUSALEM. The general denunciations against Israel of the two preceding chapters are here turned especially against Jerusalem. God will deprive her of all h...
For, behold, the LORD of hosts, doth take away from Jerusalem and from Judah the stay and the staff, the whole stay of bread, and the whole stay of water, the mighty men, and the man of war, the judge...
Amos 2:6; Amos 2:7; Amos 8:4; Exodus 5:14; Ezekiel 18:2;...