{"id":2697,"date":"2021-03-24T11:41:56","date_gmt":"2021-03-24T15:41:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/zzzptm.com\/wordpress\/?p=2697"},"modified":"2021-03-24T11:41:56","modified_gmt":"2021-03-24T15:41:56","slug":"grinding-the-faces-of-the-poor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zzzptm.com\/wordpress\/?p=2697","title":{"rendered":"Grinding the Faces of the Poor"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Isaiah 3 has the following passages, which are quoted in 2 Nephi 13 in the Book of Mormon:<br><br>&#8220;The Lord standeth up to plead, and standeth to judge the people. The Lord will enter into judgment with the ancients of his people and the princes thereof; for ye have eaten up the vineyard and the spoil of the poor in your houses.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The judgment is clearly upon the leadership classes of the people, and it is because they have oppressed the poor. That is underlined in a following comment:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Ye beat my people to pieces, and grind the faces of the poor, saith the Lord God of Hosts.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>What follows is a description of how an elegantly-clad young woman will be stripped of her adornments and have &#8220;burning instead of beauty.&#8221; The nation is the young woman, and the fine apparel is the symbol of not caring for the poor. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The comment about grinding the faces of the poor is noteworthy because it is not an individual action, but a societal one. A nation is not worthy of blessings or protection if the weakest members of that nation are exploited by the rich and powerful. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Isaiah 3 has the following passages, which are quoted in 2 Nephi 13 in the Book of Mormon: &#8220;The Lord standeth up to plead, and standeth to judge the people. The Lord will enter into judgment with the ancients of his people and the princes thereof; for ye have eaten up the vineyard and the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2697","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-live"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zzzptm.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2697","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/zzzptm.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/zzzptm.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zzzptm.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zzzptm.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2697"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/zzzptm.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2697\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2698,"href":"https:\/\/zzzptm.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2697\/revisions\/2698"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zzzptm.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2697"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zzzptm.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2697"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zzzptm.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2697"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}