Isaiah 3

1 For behold the sovereign the Lord of hosts shall take away from Jerusalem, and from Juda the valiant and the strong, the whole strength of bread, and the whole strength of water.

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 The strong man, and the man of war, the judge, and the prophet, and the cunning man, and the ancient.

Man of might and man of war, —Judge and prophet And diviner and elder;

3 The captain over fifty, and the honourable in countenance, and the counsellor, and the architect, and the skillful in eloquent speech.

Captain of fifty, and favourite; And counsellor and skilled artificer, And master of magical formulas;

4 And I will give children to be their princes, and the effeminate shall rule over them.

And I will appoint boys to be their princes, —And, petulant children, shall rule over them,

5 And the people shall rush one upon another, and every man against his neighbour: the child shall make it tumult against the ancient, and the base against the honourable.

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 shall take hold or his brother, one of the house of his father, saying: Thou hast a garment, be thou our ruler, and let this ruin be under thy hand.

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 In that day he shall answer, saying: I am no healer, and in my house there is no bread, nor clothing: make me not ruler of the people.

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 Jerusalem is ruined, and Juda is fallen: because their tongue, and their devices are against the Lord, to provoke the eyes of his majesty.

For stumbled hath Jerusalem, and, Judah, hath fallen, —Because, their tongue and their doings, are against Yahweh, Provoking his glorious presence,

9 The shew of their countenance hath answered them: and they have proclaimed abroad their sin as Sodom, and they have not hid it: woe to their souls, for evils are rendered to them.

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 Say to the just man that it is well, for he shall eat the fruit of his doings.

Say ye to the righteous It is well! For the fruit of their doings, shall they eat:

11 Woe to the wicked unto evil: for the reward of his hands shall be given him.

Alas! for the lawless, it is ill, For what his own hand hath matured, shall be done to him.

12 As for my people, their oppressors have stripped them, and women have ruled over them. O my people, they that call thee blessed, the same deceive thee, and destroy the way of thy steps.

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 standeth up to judge, and he standeth to judge the people.

Yahweh hath taken his station to plead, —And is standing to judge peoples:

14 The Lord will enter into judgment with the ancients of his people, and its princes: for you have devoured the vineyard, and the spoil of the poor is in your house.

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 Why do you consume my people, and grind the faces of the poor? saith the Lord the God of hosts.

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 said: Because the daughters of Sion are haughty, and have walked with stretched out necks, and wanton glances of their eyes, and made a noise as they walked with their feet and moved in a set pace:

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 will make bald the crown of the head of the daughters of Sion, and the Lord will discover their hair.

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 day the Lord will take away the ornaments of shoes, and little moons,

In that day, will My Lord remove the finery—of the anklets, and the little suns and the little moons;

19 And chains and necklaces, and bracelets, and bonnets,

the pendants and the bracelets and the veils;

20 And bodkins, and ornaments of the legs, and tablets, and sweet balls, and earrings,

the chaplets and the armlets and the girdles, and the scent-cases, and the amulets;

21 And rings, and jewels hanging on the forehead,

the rings and the nose-jewels;

22 And changes of apparel, and short cloaks, and fine linen, and crisping pins,

the robes, and the over-tunics, and the cloaks and the purses;

23 And looking-glasses, and lawns, and headbands, and fine veils.

and the mirrors and the linen wraps, and the tiaras and the cloaks.

24 And instead of a sweet smell there shall be stench, and instead of a girdle, a cord, and instead of curled hair, baldness, and instead of a stomacher, haircloth.

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 Thy fairest men also shall fall by the sword, and thy valiant ones in battle.

Thy males, by the sword shall fall, —And, thy mighty men, by the war;

26 And her gates shall lament and mourn, and she shall sit desolate on the ground.

And her gates shall mourn and lament, —And forsaken, on the ground, shall she sit.