Holy Scripture

Isaiah 3:12

A church father on this verse
“But now, what wounds can the conquered show, what injuries to gaping vitals, what tortures of the limbs, when faith did not fail in combat but perfidy arrived before the combat? Nor does the necessity of the crime excuse the one who was caught, where the crime is of the will. I do not say this to burden the cases of t…”
Cyprian, 3th c. — Treatise III. On the Lapsed 14

Source: Septuagint

Original

12O my people, your exactors strip you, and extortioners rule over you: O my people, they that pronounce you blessed lead you astray, and pervert the path of your feet.

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In context

10Woe to their soul, for they have devised an evil counsel against themselves, saying against themselves, Let us bind the just, for he is burdensome to us: therefore shall they eat the fruits of their works.

11Woe to the transgressor! evils shall happen to him according to the works of his hands.

— Isaiah 3:12 —

13But now the Lord will stand up for judgment, and will enter into judgment with his people.

14The Lord himself shall enter into judgment with the elders of the people, and with their rulers: but why have ye set my vineyard on fire, and why is the spoil of the poor in your houses?

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