Isaiah 3
1 For lo! the Lord, Yahweh of hosts, removing from Jerusalem and from Judah, The stay and staff, —The whole stay of bread, And the whole stay of water:
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;
2 Man of might and man of war, —Judge and prophet And diviner and elder;
Mighty and man of war, judge and prophet, And diviner and elderly,
3 Captain of fifty, and favourite; And counsellor and skilled artificer, And master of magical formulas;
Head of fifty, and accepted of faces, And counselor, and wise craftsmen, And discerning charmer.
4 And I will appoint boys to be their princes, —And, petulant children, shall rule over them,
And I have made youths their heads, And sucklings rule over them.
5 And the people will, tyrannise, Every man over his fellow-man, And every man over his friend, —And they will rage The boy against, the elder, And the despised, against, the honourable,
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.
6 When a man shall lay hold, on his brother of the house of his father, [saying] —Clothing, hast thou, Become thou our, ruler, This downfall, be under thy hand,
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.”
7 He will swear, in that day, saying—I will take no control, When in mine own house, is neither food nor clothing, —Ye must not set me for a ruler of people!
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.”
8 For stumbled hath Jerusalem, and, Judah, hath fallen, —Because, their tongue and their doings, are against Yahweh, Provoking his glorious presence,
For Jerusalem has stumbled, and Judah has fallen, For their tongue and their doings [are] against YHWH, To provoke the eyes of His glory.
9 The show of their face, hath answered against them, And their sin—like Sodom, have they told, they have not concealed it. Alas for their souls! For they have requited to themselves, calamity.
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.
10 Say ye to the righteous It is well! For the fruit of their doings, shall they eat:
Say to the righteous that [it is] good, Because they eat the fruit of their doings.
11 Alas! for the lawless, it is ill, For what his own hand hath matured, shall be done to him.
Woe to the wicked—evil, Because the deed of his hand is done to him.
12 My people! children, are their tyrants, And, women, rule over them, —My people! they who should lead thee forward, are causing thee to stray, Thy pathways, have they destroyed,
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.
13 Yahweh hath taken his station to plead, —And is standing to judge peoples:
YHWH has stood up to plead, And He is standing to judge the peoples.
14 Yahweh, into judgment, will enter, With the elders of his people And their princes, —But ye, have consumed the vineyard, That which hath been robbed from the oppressed, is in your houses.
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.
15 What right have ye to crush my people, And the faces of the oppressed, to grind? Demandeth My Lord Yahweh of hosts—And Yahweh saith—
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:
16 Because haughty are the daughters of Zion, And they walk with neck thrown back, and wanton eyes, —Tripping along as they go, And with their feet, making, a tinkling sound,
“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,
17 Therefore will My Lord, smite with leprosy the crown of hair of the daughters of Zion, —And, as for Yahweh, their shame, will he lay bare!
The Lord has also scabbed The crown of the head of daughters of Zion, And YHWH exposes their simplicity.
18 In that day, will My Lord remove the finery—of the anklets, and the little suns and the little moons;
In that day the Lord turns aside The beauty of the jingling ornaments, And of the embroidered works, And of the crescents,
19 the pendants and the bracelets and the veils;
Of the pendants, and the bracelets, and the veils,
20 the chaplets and the armlets and the girdles, and the scent-cases, and the amulets;
Of the headdresses, and the ornaments of the legs, And of the bands, And of the perfume boxes, and the amulets,
21 the rings and the nose-jewels;
Of the seals, and of the nose-rings,
22 the robes, and the over-tunics, and the cloaks and the purses;
Of the costly apparel, and of the mantles, And of the coverings, and of the purses,
23 and the mirrors and the linen wraps, and the tiaras and the cloaks.
Of the mirrors, and of the linen garments, And of the hoods, and of the veils,
24 And it shall come to pass—That instead of fragrance, a putrid odour, shall be, And instead of a girdle, an encircling rope, And instead of braided hair, baldness, And instead of a festal robe, a girding of sackcloth, Branding instead of beauty:
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.
25 Thy males, by the sword shall fall, —And, thy mighty men, by the war;
For instead of glory, your men fall by sword, And your might in battle.
26 And her gates shall mourn and lament, —And forsaken, on the ground, shall she sit.
And her openings have lamented and mourned, Indeed, she has been emptied, she sits on the earth!”
