Isaiah 3:14 - Exposition

The ancients … the princes. These were the chief oppressors. They delivered the judgments, and it was by them that justice was perverted. Jehovah therefore enters specially into judgment with them. For ye have eaten up; rather, So ye have eaten up . Jehovah is supposed to address the unjust judges. He reproaches them with having "eaten up," or rather "scorched up," his vineyard, i.e. Israel (comp. Isaiah 5:1-7 ), and taxes them with having still their ill-gotten gains in their houses. "So ye ," he says, "have thus acted—ye whose duty it was to have acted so differently."