Isaiah 3
1 For lo! the lordli gouernour, the Lord of oostis, schal take awei fro Jerusalem and fro Juda a myyti man, and strong, and al the strengthe of breed, and al the strengthe of watir;
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:
2 a strong man, and a man a werriour, and a domesman, and a profete, and a false dyuynour in auteris, and an elde man,
Man of might and man of war, —Judge and prophet And diviner and elder;
3 a prince ouer fifti men, and a worschipful man in cheer, and a counselour, and a wijs man of principal crafti men, and a prudent man of mystik, ethir goostli, speche.
Captain of fifty, and favourite; And counsellor and skilled artificer, And master of magical formulas;
4 And Y schal yyue children the princes of hem, and men of wymmens condiciouns schulen be lordis of hem.
And I will appoint boys to be their princes, —And, petulant children, shall rule over them,
5 And the puple schal falle doun, a man to a man, ech man to his neiybore; a child schal make noyse ayens an eld man, and an vnnoble man ayens a noble man.
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,
6 For a man schal take his brother, the meneal of his fadir, and schal seie, A clooth is to thee, be thou oure prince; forsothe this fallyng be vndur thin hond.
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,
7 And he schal answere in that dai, and seie, Y am no leche, and nether breed, nether cloth is in myn hous; nyle ye make me prince of the puple.
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!
8 For whi Jerusalem felle doun, and Juda felle doun togidere; for the tunge of hem, and the fyndingis of hem weren ayens the Lord, for to terre to wraththe the iyen of his mageste.
For stumbled hath Jerusalem, and, Judah, hath fallen, —Because, their tongue and their doings, are against Yahweh, Provoking his glorious presence,
9 The knowyng of her cheer schal answere to hem; and thei prechiden her synne, as Sodom dide, and hidden not. Wo to the soule of hem, for whi yuels ben yoldun to hem.
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.
10 Seie ye to the iust man, that it schal be to hym wel; for he schal ete the fruyt of hise fyndyngis.
Say ye to the righteous It is well! For the fruit of their doings, shall they eat:
11 Wo to the wickid man in to yuel; for whi the yeldyng of hise hondis schal be maad to hym.
Alas! for the lawless, it is ill, For what his own hand hath matured, shall be done to him.
12 The wrongful axeris of my puple robbiden it, and wymmen weren lordis therof. Mi puple, thei that seien thee blessid, disseyuen thee, and distrien the weie of thi steppis.
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,
13 The Lord stondith for to deme, and `the Lord stondith for to deme puplis;
Yahweh hath taken his station to plead, —And is standing to judge peoples:
14 the Lord schal come to doom, with the eldere men of his puple, and with hise princes; for ye han wastid my vyner, and the raueyn of a pore man is in youre hous.
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.
15 Whi al to-breken ye my puple, and grynden togidere the faces of pore men? seith the Lord God of oostis.
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—
16 And the Lord God seide, For that that the douytris of Syon weren reisid, and yeden with a necke stretchid forth, and yeden bi signes of iyen, and flappiden with hondis, and yeden, and with her feet yeden in wel araied goyng,
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,
17 the Lord schal make ballyd the nol of the douytris of Sion, and the Lord schal make nakid the heer of hem.
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!
18 In that dai the Lord schal take awei the ournement of schoon, and goldun litle bellis lijk the moone,
In that day, will My Lord remove the finery—of the anklets, and the little suns and the little moons;
19 and ribans, and brochis, and ournementis of armes nyy the schuldris, and mytris, ether chapelettis,
the pendants and the bracelets and the veils;
20 and coombis, and ournementis of armes niy the hondis, and goldun ourenementis lijk laumpreis, and litil vessels of oynementis,
the chaplets and the armlets and the girdles, and the scent-cases, and the amulets;
21 and eere ryngis, and ryngis, and preciouse stoonys hangynge in the forheed,
the rings and the nose-jewels;
22 and chaungynge clothis, and mentils, and schetis, ether smockis, and needlis,
the robes, and the over-tunics, and the cloaks and the purses;
23 and myrouris, and smal lynun clothis aboute the schuldris, and kercheues, and roketis.
and the mirrors and the linen wraps, and the tiaras and the cloaks.
24 And stynk shal be for swete odour, and a corde for the girdil; ballidnesse schal be for crispe heer, and an heire for a brest girdil.
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:
25 Also thi faireste men schulen falle bi swerd, and thi stronge men schulen falle in batel.
Thy males, by the sword shall fall, —And, thy mighty men, by the war;
26 And the yatis therof schulen weile, and morene; and it schal sitte desolat in erthe.
And her gates shall mourn and lament, —And forsaken, on the ground, shall she sit.
