Isaiah 47:6

WEB

⁶I was angry with my people. I profaned my inheritance and gave them into your hand. You showed them no mercy. You laid a very heavy yoke on the aged.

KJV

⁶¶ I was wroth with my people, I have polluted mine inheritance, and given them into thine hand: thou didst shew them no mercy; upon the ancient hast thou very heavily laid thy yoke.

BSB

⁶I was angry with My people; I profaned My heritage, and I placed them under your control. You showed them no mercy; even on the elderly you laid a most heavy yoke.

FBV

⁶I was angry with my people, and I abandoned those who belonged to me.^[+] I handed them over to you. But you didn't show them mercy—you even mistreated old people.

Extra References

Zechariah 1:15

¹⁵I am very angry with the nations that are at ease; for I was but a little displeased, but they added to the calamity.”

⁹But a prophet of the LORD was there, whose name was Oded; and he went out to meet the army that came to Samaria, and said to them, “Behold, because the LORD, the God of your fathers, was angry with Judah, he has delivered them into your hand, and you have slain them in a rage which has reached up to heaven.

Deuteronomy 28:50

⁵⁰a nation of fierce facial expressions, that doesn’t respect the elderly, nor show favor to the young.

Obadiah 1:10

¹⁰For the violence done to your brother Jacob, shame will cover you, and you will be cut off forever.

James 2:13

¹³For judgment is without mercy to him who has shown no mercy. Mercy triumphs over judgment.

Psalms 69:26

²⁶For they persecute him whom you have wounded. They tell of the sorrow of those whom you have hurt.

Isaiah 14:17

¹⁷who made the world like a wilderness, and overthrew its cities, who didn’t release his prisoners to their home?”

Obadiah 1:16

¹⁶For as you have drunk on my holy mountain, so all the nations will drink continually. Yes, they will drink, swallow down, and will be as though they had not been.

Isaiah 42:24-25

²⁴Who gave Jacob as plunder, and Israel to the robbers? Didn’t the LORD, he against whom we have sinned? For they would not walk in his ways, and they disobeyed his law. ²⁵Therefore he poured the fierceness of his anger on him, and the strength of battle. It set him on fire all around, but he didn’t know. It burned him, but he didn’t take it to heart.”

Isaiah 10:6

⁶I will send him against a profane nation, and against the people who anger me I will give him a command to take the plunder and to take the prey, and to tread them down like the mire of the streets.