John Gill Commentary Isaiah 3:14

"Jehovah will enter into judgment with the elders of his people, and the princes thereof: It is ye that have eaten up the vineyard; the spoil of the poor is in your houses:" — Isaiah 3:14 (ASV)

The Lord will enter into judgment with the ancients of his
people, and the princes of it
Both civil and ecclesiastical; the princes, chief priests, and elders of the people, who set themselves and took counsel together against the Lord and his Christ; would not suffer the people to be gathered to him; sought his life, and at last took it away.

For you have eaten up the vineyard ,
or burnt it ^F16 ; the house of Israel, and of Judah compared to a vineyard, in a following chapter; and so the Targum, ``you have oppressed my people;'' these are the husbandmen our Lord speaks of, that beat the servants that were sent for the fruits of the vineyard, and at last killed the heir, (Matthew 21:34–41) .

The spoil of the poor [is] in your houses ;
the Pharisees devoured widows' houses, and filled their own, with the spoil of them, (Matthew 23:14) .

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FOOTNOTES:

• F16: (Mtreb) "succendistis", Vatablus, Montanus.