Isaiah 3

1 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.

For here! the lord Yahweh of hosts [is] about to remove from Jerusalem and from Judah support and support every support of food and every support of water.

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

Warrior and man of war judge and prophet and diviner and elder.

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

Commander of fifty and [one] uplifted of face and counselor and skillful [one] of magic arts and understanding [one] of charming.

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

And I will make youths leaders their and wantonness they will rule over them.

5 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.

And it will oppress the people each a person and each neighbor his they will act insolently the youth[s] in the old [person] and the lightly esteemed in the honored.

6 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.'

For he will seize each brother his [the] house of father his a cloak [belongs] to you a ruler you will be of us and the heap of ruins this [will be] under hand your.

7 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.'

He will lift up in the day that - saying not I will be a wrapper and in house my there not [is] food and there not [is] a cloak not you must appoint me a ruler of [the] people.

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

For it has stumbled Jerusalem and Judah it has fallen for tongue their and deeds their [are] against Yahweh to rebel toward [the] eyes of glory his.

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 to themselves evil.

[the] expression of Faces their it has testified against them and sin their like Sodom they have declared not they have hidden [it] woe! to self their for they have done to themselves harm.

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

Tell [the] righteous that good for [the] fruit of deeds their they will eat.

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

Woe! to [the] wicked it will be bad for [the] dealing of hands his it will be done to him.

12 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.

People my oppressors its [is] acting like children and women they have ruled over it O people my guides your [are] misleading and [the] way of paths your they have confused.

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

[is] taking his stand To conduct a case Yahweh and [is] standing to judge peoples.

14 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.

Yahweh in judgment he will come with [the] elders of people his and leaders its and you you have consumed the vineyard [the] plunder of the poor [is] in houses your.

15 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:

(What [is] to you? *Q(K)*) you crush people my and [the] faces of poor [people] you grind [the] utterance of [the] Lord Yahweh of hosts.

16 '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,

And he said Yahweh because that they are haughty [the] daughters of Zion and they have walked (stretched out *Q(k)*) of neck and making seductive glances of eyes walking and mincing along they walk and on feet their they tinkle with anklets.

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

And he will make scabby [the] Lord scalp of [the] daughters of Zion and Yahweh forehead their he will lay bare.

18 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,

In the day that he will remove [the] Lord [the] splendor of the anklets and the amulets and the ornaments.

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

The pendants and the bracelets and the veils.

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

The head-dresses and the ankle chains and the sashes and [the] houses of the breath and the amulets.

21 Of the seals, and of the nose-rings,

The signet-rings and [the] rings of the nose.

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

The robes and the over-tunics and the cloaks and the purses.

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

And the mirrors and the linen garments and the headdresses and the shawls.

24 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.

And it will be in place of perfume rottenness it will be and in place of a belt a rope and in place of a work well-set hair baldness and in place of a robe a girding of sackcloth branding in place of beauty.

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

Men your by the sword they will fall and strength your in battle.

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

And they will lament and they will mourn gates its and it will be emptied to the ground it will sit.