Thomas Aquinas, on Isa 3:13

“The Lord standeth up to judge, and he standeth to judge the people.”

“114. The Lord stands up to judge. Here the judgment for punishing the oppressors is introduced, and this is divided into two parts: in the first, the judgment against the oppressing princes is set out, in the second, the judgment against the women, where it says, and the Lord said (Isa 3:16). The false prophets were deceiving the people to despoil them, and therefore they have the same judgment as the princes: they violated me among my people, for a handful of barley, and a piece of bread (Ezek 13:19). Concerning the first, he does three things. First, the judge is introduced; hence he says: the Lord stands up to judge: he shall judge many peoples (Mic 4:3); the judgment sat, and the books were opened (Dan 7:10).”

Imported from an open dataset — not yet checked against the printed edition.