Isaiah 3

Lexham English Bible

3 For look, the Lord Yahweh of hosts is removing every source of support^[a]
    from Jerusalem and from Judah:
all of the supplies of bread
    and all of the supplies of water,
² mighty warrior and man of war,
    judge and prophet,
    and diviner and elder,
³ captain of fifty and the honorable men of rank,
    and counselor and skillful magicians and skillful enchanter.
⁴ And I will make boys their princes,
    and children shall rule over them.
⁵ And the people will be oppressed by each other^[b]
    and a man by his neighbor.
The boy will act arrogantly toward the elder,
    and the dishonorable toward the honorable.
⁶ Indeed, a man will seize his brother
    in the house of his father:
“You have a cloak;^[c]
    you shall be a leader for us,
    and this heap of ruins shall be under your hand!”
⁷ He will lift up his voice on that day, saying,
“I will not be a healer;
    in my house there is no bread
        and there is no cloak.
    You shall not make me the leader of the people!”
⁸ For Jerusalem has stumbled,
    and Judah has fallen
because their speech and their deeds are against Yahweh,
    defying the eyes of his glory.
⁹ The look on their faces testifies against them
    and they declare their sin like Sodom;
        they do not hide it.
Woe to their soul!
    For they have dealt out evil to themselves.
¹⁰ Tell the innocent^[d] that it is good
    for they shall eat the fruit of their deeds.
¹¹ Woe to the wicked!^[e] It is bad!
    For what is done by his hands will be done to him.
¹² My people—children are their oppressors,
    and women rule over them.
My people, your leaders are misleading you,
    and they confuse the course of your paths.
¹³ Yahweh takes his stand to conduct a legal case
    and takes his stand to judge the peoples.
¹⁴ Yahweh enters into judgment with the elders of his people and its princes.
“And you! You have devoured the vineyard;
    the spoil of the poor is in your houses!
¹⁵ Why^[f] do you crush my people
    and grind the face of the poor?”

¹⁶ And Yahweh said: “Because^[h] the daughters of Zion are haughty,
    and they walk with outstretched neck,
    and they give flirting glances with their eyes,
        mincing along as they go,^[i]
    and with their feet they rattle their bangles,^[j]
17 the Lord will make the heads^[k] of the daughters of Zion scabby,
    and Yahweh will lay their foreheads bare.”
¹⁸ In that day the Lord will take away the finery of the anklets
    and the headbands and the crescent necklaces,
¹⁹ the pendants and the bracelets and the veils,
²⁰     the headdresses and the armlets and the sashes,
and the perfume boxes^[l] and the amulets,
²¹     the signet rings and the nose rings,
²² the festal robes and the mantles,
    and the cloaks and the handbags,
²³ and the mirrors and the linen garments,
    and the turbans and the wraps.
²⁴ And this shall happen: There will be
    a stench instead of perfume,
and a rope instead of a sash,
    and baldness instead of a well-set hairdo,
and a clothing wrap of sackcloth instead of a rich robe,
    branding instead of beauty.
²⁵ Your men shall fall by the sword,
    and your warriors in battle.
²⁶ And her^[m] gates shall lament and mourn,
    and she shall be banished;
        she shall sit upon the ground.