Isaiah 3
1 For behold, the Lord, YHWH of Hosts, Is turning aside from Jerusalem and from Judah [Both] stay and staff: Every stay of bread and every stay of water;
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,
2 Mighty and man of war, judge and prophet, And diviner and elderly,
The strong man, and the man of warre, the iudge and the prophet, the prudent and the aged,
3 Head of fifty, and accepted of faces, And counselor, and wise craftsmen, And discerning charmer.
The captaine of fiftie, and the honourable, and the counseller, and the cunning artificer, and the eloquent man.
4 And I have made youths their heads, And sucklings rule over them.
And I will appoint children to bee their princes, and babes shall rule ouer them.
5 And the people has exacted—man on man, Even a man on his neighbor, The youths enlarge themselves against the aged, And the lightly esteemed against the honored.
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.
6 When one lays hold on his brother, Of the house of his father, [by] the garment, “Come, you are a ruler to us, And this ruin [is] under your hand.”
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.
7 He lifts up, in that day, saying, “I am not a binder up, And in my house is neither bread nor garment, You do not make me a ruler of the people.”
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.
8 For Jerusalem has stumbled, and Judah has fallen, For their tongue and their doings [are] against YHWH, To provoke the eyes of His glory.
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.
9 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 evil to themselves.
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.
10 Say to the righteous that [it is] good, Because they eat the fruit of their doings.
Say ye, Surely it shalbe well with the iust: for they shall eate the fruite of their workes.
11 Woe to the wicked—evil, Because the deed of his hand is done to him.
Woe be to the wicked, it shalbe euill with him: for the reward of his handes shalbe giuen him.
12 My people—its exactors [are] sucklings, And women have ruled over it. My people—your eulogists are causing to err, And the way of your paths swallowed up.
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.
13 YHWH has stood up to plead, And He is standing to judge the peoples.
The Lord standeth vp to pleade, yea, hee standeth to iudge the people.
14 YHWH enters into judgment With [the] elderly of His people, and its heads: “And you, you have consumed the vineyard, Plunder of the poor [is] in your houses.
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.
15 Why? Why do you [do this]? You bruise My people, And you grind the faces of the poor.” A declaration of the Lord, YHWH of Hosts, And YHWH says:
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?
16 “Because that daughters of Zion have been haughty, And they walk stretching out the neck, And deceiving [with] the eyes, They go walking and mincing, And they make a jingling with their feet,
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,
17 The Lord has also scabbed The crown of the head of daughters of Zion, And YHWH exposes their simplicity.
Therefore shall the Lord make the heades of the daughters of Zion balde, and the Lord shall discouer their secrete partes.
18 In that day the Lord turns aside The beauty of the jingling ornaments, And of the embroidered works, And of the crescents,
In that day shall the Lord take away the ornament of the slippers, and the calles, and the round tyres,
19 Of the pendants, and the bracelets, and the veils,
The sweete balles, and the brasselets, and the bonnets,
20 Of the headdresses, and the ornaments of the legs, And of the bands, And of the perfume boxes, and the amulets,
The tyres of the head, and the sloppes, and the head bandes, and the tablets, and the earings,
21 Of the seals, and of the nose-rings,
The rings and the mufflers,
22 Of the costly apparel, and of the mantles, And of the coverings, and of the purses,
The costly apparell and the vailes, and the wimples, and the crisping pinnes,
23 Of the mirrors, and of the linen garments, And of the hoods, and of the veils,
And the glasses and the fine linen, and the hoodes, and the launes.
24 And it has 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.
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.
25 For instead of glory, your men fall by sword, And your might in battle.
Thy men shall fall by the sworde, and thy strength in the battell.
26 And her openings have lamented and mourned, Indeed, she has been emptied, she sits on the earth!”
Then shall her gates mourne and lament, and she, being desolate, shall sit vpon the ground.
