Isaiah 3:1-26
3 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 Man of might and man of war,—Judge and prophet And diviner and elder;
3 Captain of fifty and favourite; And counsellor and skilled artificer And master of magical formulas;
4 And I will appoint boys to be their princes,—And petulant children shall rule over them.
5 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 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 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 stumbled hath Jerusalem, and Judah hath fallen,—Because their tongue and their doings are against Yahweh, Provoking his glorious presence.
9 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 ye to the righteous, It is well! For the fruit of their doings shall they eat:
11 Alas! for the lawless it is ill, For what his own hand hath matured shall be done to him.
12 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 Yahweh hath taken his station to plead,—And is standing to judge peoples:
14 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 What right have ye to crush my people, And the faces of the oppressed to grind? Demandeth My Lord, Yahweh of hosts—
16 And Yahweh saith—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 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 will My Lord remove the finery—of the anklets, and the little suns and the little moons;
19 the pendants and the bracelets and the veils;
20 the chaplets and the armlets and the girdles, and the scent-cases and the amulets;
21 the rings and the nose-jewels;
22 the robes and the over-tunics, and the cloaks and the purses;
23 and the mirrors and the linen wraps, and the tiaras and the cloaks.
24 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 males by the sword shall fall,—And thy mighty men by the war;
26 And her gates shall mourn and lament,—And forsaken on the ground shall she sit.