LEB - Isaiah - 3

3:1  For look, the Lord Yahweh of hosts is removing ⌞every source of support⌟ from Jerusalem and from Judah: all of the supplies of bread and all of the supplies of water,

3:2  mighty warrior and man of war, judge and prophet, and diviner and elder,

3:3  captain of fifty and the honorable men of rank, and counselor and skillful magicians and skillful enchanter.

3:4  And I will make boys their princes, and children shall rule over them.

3:5  And the people will be oppressed ⌞by each other⌟ and a man by his neighbor. The boy will act arrogantly toward the elder, and the dishonorable toward the honorable.

3:6  Indeed, a man will seize his brother in the house of his father: “⌞You have a cloak⌟; you shall be a leader for us, and this heap of ruins shall be under your hand!”

3:7  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!”

3:8  For Jerusalem has stumbled, and Judah has fallen because their speech and their deeds are against Yahweh, defying the eyes of his glory.

3:9  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.

3:10  Tell the innocent that it is good for they shall eat the fruit of their deeds.

3:11  Woe to the wicked! It is bad! For what is done by his hands will be done to him.

3:12  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.

3:13  Yahweh takes his stand to conduct a legal case and takes his stand to judge the peoples.

3:14  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!

3:15  ⌞Why⌟ do you crush my people and grind the face of the poor?” ⌞declares⌟ the Lord Yahweh of hosts.

3:16  And Yahweh said: “Because 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⌟, and ⌞with their feet they rattle their bangles⌟,

3:17  the Lord will make the heads of the daughters of Zion scabby, and Yahweh will lay their foreheads bare.”

3:18  In that day the Lord will take away the finery of the anklets and the headbands and the crescent necklaces,

3:19  the pendants and the bracelets and the veils,

3:20  the headdresses and the armlets and the sashes, and the ⌞perfume boxes⌟ and the amulets,

3:21  the signet rings and the nose rings,

3:22  the festal robes and the mantles, and the cloaks and the handbags,

3:23  and the mirrors and the linen garments, and the turbans and the wraps.

3:24  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.

3:25  Your men shall fall by the sword, and your warriors in battle.

3:26  And her gates shall lament and mourn, and she shall be banished; she shall sit upon the ground.