Isaiah — Chapter 3

¹For, behold, the Lord, Yahweh of Hosts, does take away from Jerusalem and from Judah stay and staff, the whole stay of bread, and the whole stay of water;

²the mighty man, and the man of war; the judge, and the prophet, and the diviner, and the elder;

³the captain of fifty, and the honorable man, and the counselor, and the expert artificer, and the skillful enchanter.

⁴I will give children to be their princes, and babes shall rule over them.

⁵The people shall be oppressed, everyone by another, and everyone by his neighbor: the child shall behave himself proudly against the old man, and the base against the honorable.

⁶When a man shall take hold of his brother in the house of his father, [saying], You have clothing, be you our ruler, and let this ruin be under your hand;

⁷in that day shall he lift up [his voice], saying, I will not be a healer; for in my house is neither bread nor clothing: you shall not make me ruler of the people.

⁸For Jerusalem is ruined, and Judah is fallen; because their tongue and their doings are against Yahweh, to provoke the eyes of his glory.

⁹The show of their face testifies against them. They declare their sin as Sodom. They don`t hide it. Woe to their soul! For they have done evil to themselves.

¹⁰Say you of the righteous, that [it shall be] well [with him]; for they shall eat the fruit of their doings.

¹¹Woe to the wicked! [it shall be] ill [with him]; for what his hands have done shall be done to him.

¹²As for my people, children are their oppressors, and women rule over them. My people, those who lead you cause you to err, and destroy the way of your paths.

¹³Yahweh stands up to contend, and stands to judge the peoples.

¹⁴Yahweh will enter into judgment with the elders of his people, and the princes of it: It is you who have eaten up the vineyard; the spoil of the poor is in your houses:

¹⁵what do you mean that you crush my people, and grind the face of the poor? says the Lord, Yahweh of Hosts.

¹⁶Moreover Yahweh said, Because the daughters of Zion are haughty, and walk with outstretched necks and wanton eyes, walking and mincing as they go, and making a tinkling with their feet;

¹⁷therefore the Lord will strike with a scab the crown of the head of the daughters of Zion, and Yahweh will lay bare their secret parts.

¹⁸In that day the Lord will take away the beauty of their anklets, and the headbands, and the crescents;

¹⁹the pendants, and the bracelets, and the mufflers;

²⁰the headdresses, and the ankle chains, and the sashes, and the perfume-boxes, and the amulets;

²¹the rings, and the nose-jewels;

²²the festival robes, and the mantles, and the shawls, and the satchels;

²³the hand-mirrors, and the fine linen, and the turbans, and the veils.

²⁴It shall happen that instead of sweet spices there shall be rottenness; and instead of a belt, a rope; and instead of well set hair, baldness; and instead of a robe, a girding of sackcloth; branding instead of beauty.

²⁵Your men shall fall by the sword, and your mighty in the war.

²⁶Her gates shall lament and mourn; and she shall be desolate and sit on the ground.