< Isaiah 3 >

1 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 Warrior and man of war judge and prophet and diviner and elder. 3 Commander of fifty and [one] uplifted of face and counselor and skillful [one] of magic arts and understanding [one] of charming. 4 And I will make youths leaders their and wantonness they will rule over them. 5 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 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 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 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] 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 Tell [the] righteous that good for [the] fruit of deeds their they will eat. 11 Woe! to [the] wicked it will be bad for [the] dealing of hands his it will be done to him. 12 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 [is] taking his stand To conduct a case Yahweh and [is] standing to judge peoples. 14 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 [is] to you? *QK) you crush people my and [the] faces of poor [people] you grind [the] utterance of [the] Lord Yahweh of hosts. 16 And he said Yahweh because that they are haughty [the] daughters of Zion and they have walked (stretched out *Qk) of neck and making seductive glances of eyes walking and mincing along they walk and on feet their they tinkle with anklets. 17 And he will make scabby [the] Lord scalp of [the] daughters of Zion and Yahweh forehead their he will lay bare. 18 In the day that he will remove [the] Lord [the] splendor of the anklets and the amulets and the ornaments. 19 The pendants and the bracelets and the veils. 20 The head-dresses and the ankle chains and the sashes and [the] houses of the breath and the amulets. 21 The signet-rings and [the] rings of the nose. 22 The robes and the over-tunics and the cloaks and the purses. 23 And the mirrors and the linen garments and the headdresses and the shawls. 24 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 Men your by the sword they will fall and strength your in battle. 26 And they will lament and they will mourn gates its and it will be emptied to the ground it will sit.

< Isaiah 3 >