15 What do you mean by crushing my people and grinding the faces of the poor?" declares the Lord, the Lord Almighty.

Other Translations of Isaiah 3:15

King James Version

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

English Standard Version

15 What do you mean by crushing my people, by grinding the face of the poor?" declares the Lord GOD of hosts.

The Message

15 What is this anyway? Stomping on my people, grinding the faces of the poor into the dirt?" That's what the Master, God-of-the-Angel-Armies, says.

New King James Version

15 What do you mean by crushing My people And grinding the faces of the poor?" Says the Lord God of hosts.

New Living Translation

15 How dare you crush my people, grinding the faces of the poor into the dust?" demands the Lord, the Lord of Heaven's Armies.

Matthew Henry's Commentary on Isaiah 3:15

Commentary on Isaiah 3:10-15

(Read Isaiah 3:10-15)

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 righteous to trust in him, and for sinners to repent and return to him. It was time for the Lord to show his might. He will call men to a strict account for all the wealth and power intrusted to and abused by them. If it is sinful to disregard the necessities of the poor, how odious and wicked a part do they act, who bring men into poverty, and then oppress them!