< Isaiah 3 >

1 For behold, the Lord, Jehovah of hosts, will take away from Jerusalem and from Judah stay and staff, the whole stay of bread, and the whole stay of water,
For here! the lord Yahweh of hosts [is] about to remove from Jerusalem and from Judah support and support every support of food and every support of water.
2 the mighty man and the man of war, the judge and the prophet, and the diviner and the elder,
Warrior and man of war judge and prophet and diviner and elder.
3 the captain of fifty, and the honourable man, and the counsellor, and the clever among artificers, and the one versed in enchantments.
Commander of fifty and [one] uplifted of face and counselor and skillful [one] of magic arts and understanding [one] of charming.
4 And I will appoint youths as their princes, and children shall rule over them.
And I will make youths leaders their and wantonness they will rule over them.
5 And the people shall be oppressed one by the other, and each by his neighbour; the child will be insolent against the elder, and the base against the honourable.
And it will oppress the people each a person and each neighbor his they will act insolently the youth[s] in the old [person] and the lightly esteemed in the honored.
6 When a man shall take hold of his brother, in his father's house, [and shall say: ] Thou hast clothing; be our chief, and let this ruin be under thy hand;
For he will seize each brother his [the] house of father his a cloak [belongs] to you a ruler you will be of us and the heap of ruins this [will be] under hand your.
7 he will lift up [his hand] in that day, saying, I cannot be a healer, and in my house there is neither bread nor clothing; ye shall not make me a chief of the people.
He will lift up in the day that - saying not I will be a wrapper and in house my there not [is] food and there not [is] a cloak not you must appoint me a ruler of [the] people.
8 For Jerusalem stumbleth and Judah falleth, because their tongue and their doings are against Jehovah, to provoke the eyes of his glory.
For it has stumbled Jerusalem and Judah it has fallen for tongue their and deeds their [are] against Yahweh to rebel toward [the] eyes of glory his.
9 The look of their face doth witness against them, and they declare their sin as Sodom: they hide it not. Woe unto their soul! for they have brought evil upon themselves.
[the] expression of Faces their it has testified against them and sin their like Sodom they have declared not they have hidden [it] woe! to self their for they have done to themselves harm.
10 Say ye of the righteous that it shall be well [with him], for they shall eat the fruit of their doings.
Tell [the] righteous that good for [the] fruit of deeds their they will eat.
11 Woe unto the wicked! it shall be ill [with him], because the desert of his hands shall be rendered unto him.
Woe! to [the] wicked it will be bad for [the] dealing of hands his it will be done to him.
12 [As for] my people, children are their oppressors, and women rule over them. My people! they that guide thee mislead [thee], and destroy the way of thy paths.
People my oppressors its [is] acting like children and women they have ruled over it O people my guides your [are] misleading and [the] way of paths your they have confused.
13 Jehovah setteth himself to plead, and standeth to judge the peoples.
[is] taking his stand To conduct a case Yahweh and [is] standing to judge peoples.
14 Jehovah will enter into judgment with the elders of his people and their princes, [saying: ] It is ye that have eaten up the vineyard: the spoil of the poor is in your houses.
Yahweh in judgment he will come with [the] elders of people his and leaders its and you you have consumed the vineyard [the] plunder of the poor [is] in houses your.
15 What mean ye that ye crush my people, and grind the faces of the afflicted? saith the Lord, Jehovah of hosts.
(What [is] to you? *Q(K)*) you crush people my and [the] faces of poor [people] you grind [the] utterance of [the] Lord Yahweh of hosts.
16 And Jehovah said, Because the daughters of Zion are haughty, and walk with stretched-out neck and wanton eyes, and go along mincing, and making a tinkling with their feet;
And he said Yahweh because that they are haughty [the] daughters of Zion and they have walked (stretched out *Q(k)*) of neck and making seductive glances of eyes walking and mincing along they walk and on feet their they tinkle with anklets.
17 therefore the Lord will make bald the crown of the head of the daughters of Zion, and Jehovah will lay bare their secret parts.
And he will make scabby [the] Lord scalp of [the] daughters of Zion and Yahweh forehead their he will lay bare.
18 In that day the Lord will take away the ornament of anklets, and the little suns and crescents,
In the day that he will remove [the] Lord [the] splendor of the anklets and the amulets and the ornaments.
19 the pearl-drops, and the bracelets, and the veils,
The pendants and the bracelets and the veils.
20 the head-dresses, and the stepping chains, and the girdles, and the scent-boxes, and the amulets;
The head-dresses and the ankle chains and the sashes and [the] houses of the breath and the amulets.
21 the finger-rings, and the nose-rings;
The signet-rings and [the] rings of the nose.
22 the festival-robes, and the tunics, and the mantles, and the wallets;
The robes and the over-tunics and the cloaks and the purses.
23 the mirrors, and the fine linen bodices, and the turbans, and the flowing veils.
And the mirrors and the linen garments and the headdresses and the shawls.
24 And it shall come to pass, instead of perfume there shall be rottenness; and instead of a girdle, a rope; and instead of well-set hair, baldness; and instead of a robe of display, a girding of sackcloth; brand instead of beauty.
And it will be in place of perfume rottenness it will be and in place of a belt a rope and in place of a work well-set hair baldness and in place of a robe a girding of sackcloth branding in place of beauty.
25 Thy men shall fall by the sword, and thy mighty in the fight;
Men your by the sword they will fall and strength your in battle.
26 and her gates shall lament and mourn; and, stripped, she shall sit upon the ground.
And they will lament and they will mourn gates its and it will be emptied to the ground it will sit.

< Isaiah 3 >