Isaiah 3:1-21 ▼

1 For behold, the Lord, YHWH of Hosts, || Is turning aside from Jerusalem and from Judah || [Both] stay and staff: Every stay of bread and every stay of water;

2 Mighty and man of war, judge and prophet, || And diviner and elderly,

3 Head of fifty, and accepted of faces, || And counselor, and wise craftsmen, || And discerning charmer.

4 And I have made youths their heads, || And sucklings rule over them.

5 And the people has exacted—man on man, || Even a man on his neighbor, || The youths enlarge themselves against the aged, || And the lightly esteemed against the honored.

6 When one lays hold on his brother, || Of the house of his father, [by] the garment, “Come, you are a ruler to us, || And this ruin [is] under your hand.”

7 He lifts up, in that day, saying, “I am not a binder up, || And in my house is neither bread nor garment, || You do not make me a ruler of the people.”

8 For Jerusalem has stumbled, and Judah has fallen, || For their tongue and their doings [are] against YHWH, || To provoke the eyes of His glory.

9 The appearance of their faces witnessed against them, || And their sin, as Sodom, they declared, || They have not hidden! Woe to their soul, || For they have done evil to themselves.

10 Say to the righteous that [it is] good, || Because they eat the fruit of their doings.

11 Woe to the wicked—evil, || Because the deed of his hand is done to him.

12 My people—its exactors [are] sucklings, || And women have ruled over it. My people—your eulogists are causing to err, || And the way of your paths swallowed up.

13 YHWH has stood up to plead, || And He is standing to judge the peoples.

14 YHWH enters into judgment || With [the] elderly of His people, and its heads: “And you, you have consumed the vineyard, || Plunder of the poor [is] in your houses.

15 Why? Why do you [do this]? You bruise My people, || And you grind the faces of the poor.” A declaration of the Lord, YHWH of Hosts, || And YHWH says:

16 “Because that daughters of Zion have been haughty, || And they walk stretching out the neck, || And deceiving [with] the eyes, || They go walking and mincing, || And they make a jingling with their feet,

17 The Lord has also scabbed || The crown of the head of daughters of Zion, || And YHWH exposes their simplicity.

18 In that day the Lord turns aside || The beauty of the jingling ornaments, || And of the embroidered works, || And of the crescents,

19 Of the pendants, and the bracelets, and the veils,

20 Of the headdresses, and the ornaments of the legs, || And of the bands, || And of the perfume boxes, and the amulets,

21 Of the seals, and of the nose-rings,