Isaiah 3

1 For lo, the Lord God of hostes will take away from Ierusalem and from Iudah the stay and the strength: euen all the staye of bread, and all the stay of water,

For, lo, the Lord, Jehovah of Hosts, Is turning aside from Jerusalem, And from Judah, stay and staff, Every stay of bread, and every stay of water.

2 The strong man, and the man of warre, the iudge and the prophet, the prudent and the aged,

Hero and man of war, judge and prophet, And diviner and elder,

3 The captaine of fiftie, and the honourable, and the counseller, and the cunning artificer, and the eloquent man.

Head of fifty, and accepted of faces, And counsellor, and the wise of artificers, And the intelligent of charmers.

4 And I will appoint children to bee their princes, and babes shall rule ouer them.

And I have made youths their heads, And sucklings rule over them.

5 The people shalbe oppressed one of another, and euery one by his neighbour: the children shall presume against the ancient, and the vile against the honourable.

And the people hath exacted — man upon man, Even a man on his neighbour, Enlarge themselves do the youths against the aged, And the lightly esteemed against the honoured.

6 When euery one shall take holde of his brother of the house of his father, and say, Thou hast clothing: thou shalt bee our prince, and let this fall be vnder thine hand.

When one layeth hold on his brother, [Of] the house of his father, [by] the garment, 'Come, a ruler thou art to us, And this ruin [is] under thy hand.'

7 In that day hee shall sweare, saying, I cannot bee an helper: for there is no bread in mine house, nor clothing: therefore make me no prince of the people.

He lifteth up, in that day, saying: 'I am not a binder up, And in my house is neither bread nor garment, Ye do not make me a ruler of the people.'

8 Doubtlesse Ierusalem is fallen, and Iudah is fallen downe, because their tongue and workes are against the Lord, to prouoke the eyes of his glory.

For stumbled hath Jerusalem, and Judah hath fallen, For their tongue and their doings [are] against Jehovah, To provoke the eyes of His glory.

9 The triall of their countenance testifieth against them, yea, they declare their sinnes as Sodom, they hide them not. Wo be vnto their soules: for they haue rewarded euil vnto themselues.

The appearance of their faces witnessed against them, And their sin, as Sodom, they declared, They have not hidden! Woe to their soul, For they have done to themselves evil.

10 Say ye, Surely it shalbe well with the iust: for they shall eate the fruite of their workes.

Say ye to the righteous, that [it is] good, Because the fruit of their doings they eat.

11 Woe be to the wicked, it shalbe euill with him: for the reward of his handes shalbe giuen him.

Woe to the wicked — evil, Because the deed of his hand is done to him.

12 Children are extortioners of my people, and women haue rule ouer them: O my people, they that leade thee, cause thee to erre, and destroy the way of thy paths.

My people — its exactors [are] sucklings, And women have ruled over it. My people — thy eulogists are causing to err, And the way of thy paths swallowed up.

13 The Lord standeth vp to pleade, yea, hee standeth to iudge the people.

Jehovah hath stood up to plead, And He is standing to judge the peoples.

14 The Lord shall enter into iudgement with the Ancients of his people and the princes thereof: for ye haue eaten vp the vineyarde: the spoyle of the poore is in your houses.

Jehovah into judgment doth enter With elders of His people, and its heads: 'And ye, ye have consumed the vineyard, Plunder of the poor [is] in your houses.

15 What haue ye to do, that ye beate my people to pieces, and grinde the faces of the poore, saith the Lord, euen the Lord of hoasts?

What — to you? ye bruise My people, And the faces of the poor ye grind.' An affirmation of the Lord, Jehovah of Hosts, And Jehovah saith:

16 The Lord also saith, Because the daughters of Zion are hautie, and walke with stretched out neckes, and with wandering eyes, walking and minsing as they goe, and making a tinkeling with their feete,

'Because that daughters of Zion have been haughty, And they walk stretching out the neck, And deceiving [with] the eyes, Walking and mincing they go, And with their feet they make a tinkling,

17 Therefore shall the Lord make the heades of the daughters of Zion balde, and the Lord shall discouer their secrete partes.

The Lord also hath scabbed The crown of the head of daughters of Zion, And Jehovah their simplicity exposeth.

18 In that day shall the Lord take away the ornament of the slippers, and the calles, and the round tyres,

In that day doth the Lord turn aside The beauty of the tinkling ornaments, And of the embroidered works, And of the round tires like moons,

19 The sweete balles, and the brasselets, and the bonnets,

Of the drops, and the bracelets, and the mufflers,

20 The tyres of the head, and the sloppes, and the head bandes, and the tablets, and the earings,

Of the bonnets, and the ornaments of the legs, And of the bands, And of the perfume boxes, and the amulets,

21 The rings and the mufflers,

Of the seals, and of the nose-rings,

22 The costly apparell and the vailes, and the wimples, and the crisping pinnes,

Of the costly apparel, and of the mantles, And of the coverings, and of the purses,

23 And the glasses and the fine linen, and the hoodes, and the launes.

Of the mirrors, and of the linen garments, And of the hoods, and of the vails,

24 And in steade of sweete sauour, there shall be stinke, and in steade of a girdle, a rent, and in steade of dressing of the heare, baldnesse, and in steade of a stomacher, a girding of sackecloth, and burning in steade of beautie.

And it hath been, instead of spice is muck, And instead of a girdle, a rope, And instead of curled work, baldness, And instead of a stomacher a girdle of sackcloth.

25 Thy men shall fall by the sworde, and thy strength in the battell.

For instead of glory, thy men by sword do fall, And thy might in battle.

26 Then shall her gates mourne and lament, and she, being desolate, shall sit vpon the ground.

And lamented and mourned have her openings, Yea, she hath been emptied, on the earth she sitteth!