Isaiah 3

Revised Geneva Translation

3 For lo, the LORD God of Hosts will take away from Jerusalem, and from Judah, the support and the strength, all the supply of bread, and all the supply of water,

² the strong man and the man of war, the judge and the Prophet, the diviners and the aged,

³ the Captain of Fifty and the honorable and the counselor and the skilled craftsman and expert whisperer.

⁴ And I will appoint children to be their princes. And tyrants shall rule over them.

⁵ The people shall be oppressed by one another, and everyone by his neighbor. The children shall be insolent toward the aged, and the vile toward the honorable.

⁶ When everyone shall take hold of his brother in the house of his father, and say, “You have clothing. You shall be our prince. And let this fall be under your hand.”

⁷ On that day he shall swear, saying, “I cannot be a helper. For there is neither bread in my house nor clothing. Make me no prince of the people.”

⁸ Doubtless, Jerusalem has fallen and Judah has fallen down, because their tongue and works are against the LORD, to provoke the Eyes of His Glory.

⁹ The look on their face testifies against them. Yea, they declare their sins. As Sodom, they do not hide them. Woe to their souls! For they have rewarded evil to themselves.

¹⁰ Say, “Surely it shall be well with the just. For they shall eat the fruit of their works.

¹¹ “Woe be to the wicked! It shall be evil with him. For the reward of his hands shall be given him.

¹² “Children are extortioners of my people. And women have rule over them. O, my people! Those who lead you cause you to err and destroy the way of your paths.”

¹³ The LORD stands up to plead. Yea, He stands to judge the people.

¹⁴ The LORD shall enter into judgment with the ancients of His people and their princes. “For you have eaten up the vineyard. The spoil of the poor is in your houses.

¹⁵ “What do you mean by beating My people to pieces and grinding the faces of the poor?” says the LORD, the LORD of Hosts.

¹⁶ The LORD also says, “Because the daughters of Zion are haughty, and walk with outstretched necks, and with wandering eyes, walking and skipping as they go, and making a tinkling with their feet,

¹⁷ “therefore the LORD shall make the heads of the daughters of Zion bald. And the LORD shall uncover their secret parts.

¹⁸ “On that day, the LORD shall take away the beauty of the anklets and the headbands and the crescent ornaments

¹⁹ “the pendants and the bracelets and the veils

²⁰ “the headdresses and the leg ornaments and the sashes and the tablets, and the earrings

²¹ “the rings and the nose jewels

²² “the costly apparel and the overtunics and the cloaks and the purses

²³ “and the glasses and the fine linen and the turbans and the large veils.

²⁴ “And instead of sweet savor, there shall be stink. And instead of a girdle, a rope. And instead of dressing the hair, baldness. And instead of a robe, a belt of sackcloth; and burning instead of beauty.

²⁵ “Your men shall fall by the sword, and your strength in the battle.

²⁶ “Then shall her gates mourn and lament. And she, being desolate, shall sit upon the ground.”