Isaiah 3:1-15 ▼

1 For behold, the Lord YHWH of hosts is turning away from Jerusalem and from Judah the staff and support—the whole staff of bread, and the whole staff of water—

2 the mighty one and the man of war, the judge and the prophet, and the diviner and the elder,

3 the captain of fifty, and the lifted up of faces, and the counselor, and the cunning magician, and the discerning charmer.

4 “And I will give youths as their princes, and infants will rule over them.”

5 And the people will be oppressed, each man by a man and each man by his neighbor; the child will rage against the elder, and the one despised against the honored.

6 For a man will take hold on his brother in the house of his father: “A cloak is unto you—the chief you will be for us, and this heap of ruins is under your hand;”

7 he will lift up in that day to say, “I will not be one binding wounds, and in my house there is no bread and no garment; you? shall not set me as chief of the people.”

8 For Jerusalem has stumbled, and Judah has fallen, because their tongue and their deeds are against YHWH, defying the eyes of His glory.

9 The look of their faces answers against them, and their sin like Sodom they declare—they do not hide it! Woe to their soul, for they have brought evil upon themselves.

10 Say to the righteous that it is good, for the fruit of their deeds they will eat.

11 Woe to the wicked—evil; for the recompense of his hands will be done to him!

12 My people—their oppressors are foolish children, and women rule over them. O My people, those who guide you lead you astray, and the way of your paths they have swallowed up.

13 YHWH Is taking His stand to contend, and is standing to judge the peoples.

14 YHWH will enter into judgment with the elders of His people and His princes: “And you?—you? have consumed the vineyard; the plunder of the poor is in your? houses.

15 Why do you crush My people, and grind the faces of the poor?” A declaration of the Lord YHWH of hosts.