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, Jehovah of hosts, Taketh away from Jerusalem and from Judah every stay and support; The whole stay of bread, and the whole stay of water;
2 Man of might and man of war, —Judge and prophet And diviner and elder;
The mighty man, and the warrior, The judge, the prophet, the diviner, and the sage,
3 Captain of fifty, and favourite; And counsellor and skilled artificer, And master of magical formulas;
The captain of fifty, and the honorable man, The counsellor, the expert in arts, and the skilful in charms.
4 And I will appoint boys to be their princes, —And, petulant children, shall rule over them,
And I will make boys their princes, And children shall 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 shall oppress one another, Man striving against man, and neighbor against neighbor; The boy shall behave himself insolently toward the aged, And the base toward the honorable.
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,
Then shall a man take hold of his brother in his father's house, [[and say, ]] Thou hast yet clothing, Be thou our ruler, And take this ruin into thy hands!
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!
But in that day shall he lift up his hand, and say: I am no healer; In my house is neither bread nor raiment; Make not me 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 tottereth, and Judah falleth, Because their tongues and their deeds are against Jehovah, To provoke his holy eyes.
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.
Their very countenance witnesseth against them; They publish their sin like Sodom; they hide it not; Woe to them, for they bring evil upon themselves!
10 Say ye to the righteous It is well! For the fruit of their doings, shall they eat:
Say ye of the righteous that it shall be well with him, For he shall eat the fruit of his 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, it shall be ill with him, For the work of his hands shall be repaid 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,
As for my people, children are their oppressors, And women rule over them. O my people, thy leaders cause thee to err, And destroy the way in which thou walkest!
13 Yahweh hath taken his station to plead, —And is standing to judge peoples:
Jehovah standeth up to maintain his cause; He standeth up to judge his people.
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.
Jehovah entereth into judgment with the elders of his people, and their princes: “So then ye have consumed the vineyard; The 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—
What mean ye, that ye crush my people, And grind the faces of the poor?” Saith Jehovah, the Lord of hosts.
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,
Thus, also, saith Jehovah: Because the daughters of Zion are haughty, And walk with outstretched necks, And glance their eyes wantonly, Mincing their steps as they go, And tinkling with their foot-clasps,
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!
Therefore will the Lord make their heads bald, And Jehovah will expose their nakedness.
18 In that day, will My Lord remove the finery—of the anklets, and the little suns and the little moons;
In that day shall the Lord take from them The ornaments of the foot-clasps, and the net-works, and the crescents;
19 the pendants and the bracelets and the veils;
The ear-rings, and the bracelets, and the veils;
20 the chaplets and the armlets and the girdles, and the scent-cases, and the amulets;
The turbans, and the ankle-chains, and the belts; The perfume-boxes, and the amulets;
21 the rings and the nose-jewels;
The finger-rings, and the nose-jewels;
22 the robes, and the over-tunics, and the cloaks and the purses;
The embroidered robes, and the tunics, and the cloaks, and the purses;
23 and the mirrors and the linen wraps, and the tiaras and the cloaks.
The mirrors, and the linen shifts, and the head-bands, and the large 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 instead of perfume there shall be corruption; Instead of a belt, a rope; Instead of curled locks, baldness; Instead of a wide mantle, a covering of sackcloth; Fire-scars instead of beauty.
25 Thy males, by the sword shall fall, —And, thy mighty men, by the war;
Thy men shall fall by the sword, Yea, thy mighty men in battle;
26 And her gates shall mourn and lament, —And forsaken, on the ground, shall she sit.
Her gates shall lament and mourn, And she, being desolate, shall sit upon the ground.
