Isaiah 3
3
Chapter 3
Trouble for Judah and Jerusalem
1Listen to this! I will show you what the Lord, the Almighty Lord, will do. He will remove from Jerusalem and Judah everything that people trust to help them. He will take away even their food and their water.
2He will take away
the brave men and the soldiers,
the judges and the prophets,
their leaders and the people who have visions of future things,
3the army officers and the city officers,
the wise advisors,
and those who use magic to do clever things.
4The Lord says, ‘I will cause boys to become their leaders who will rule them badly. 5People will be cruel to each other. Men will argue against one another and neighbours will fight each other. Young people will insult older people. And useless people will speak against people that they should respect.
6A man will go to his father's house and he will take hold of his brother. The man will say to him, “Look, you have a coat. So you should be our leader! You can rule over the few buildings that remain in our city!”
7But the brother will refuse. He will say, “I cannot make things any better! There is no food or clothes in my house. Do not choose me as a leader of people.” ’
8Jerusalem is falling down! The towns of Judah are in trouble! The Lord hates the things that their people say and the things that they do. They have turned against the Lord and they insult him.
9Their proud faces show that they are guilty. Their sins are as bad as the sins of Sodom's people. And they do not try to hide it! It will be very bad for them! They have caused great trouble for themselves.
10Tell the righteous people that they are in a good place. They will enjoy the results of the good things that they have done. 11But it will be very bad for the wicked people. They will receive the punishment that they deserve.
12Now children are cruel to my people and women rule over them. My people, your leaders lead you in the wrong direction. They cannot show you what is right.
13The Lord stands up to judge his people. He will decide how to punish them. 14He comes to judge the leaders and rulers of his people. He says to them, ‘You have destroyed my vineyard. You have robbed the poor people and you have stored their things in your own houses.
15What are you leaders doing? You should not hurt my people. You should not be cruel to the poor people, as if you are pushing their faces into the dirt.’
The Lord Almighty has said this.
The Lord warns Jerusalem's women
16The Lord says, ‘Zion's women are very proud. They walk with their heads up high. They turn their eyes towards the men and they have no shame. They like the men to look at them. They walk with small steps so that the rings on their ankles make a nice sound. 17Because of that, the Lord God will give them sores on their heads. Those beautiful women will be bald!’
18-23On that day, the Lord God will take away the beautiful rings that they wear on their ankles. He will remove all the valuable rings and bright stones that they wear on their heads, their necks, their ears, their arms, their fingers and their noses. He will take away their beautiful clothes, their belts, their perfumes and their magic rings.
24Instead of a nice smell of perfume, there will be a smell of dead animals. Instead of a beautiful belt, they will tie a rope round themselves. Instead of lovely hair, they will be bald. They will wear rough sackcloth instead of beautiful dresses. They will have the mark of a prisoner on their skin, instead of beauty.
25The men of your city will die in war. Yes, your strong brave men will die in battle.
26The city's gates will see all this and they will weep! The city will be empty. Zion will be like a poor woman who sits on the ground, completely alone.
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Isaiah 3
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Leaders of Judah and Jerusalem
1For look, the Lord Yahweh of hosts is removing every source of support#Literally “supplies and supplies”
from Jerusalem and from Judah:
all of the supplies of bread
and all of the supplies of water,
2mighty warrior and man of war,
judge and prophet,
and diviner and elder,
3captain of fifty and the honorable men of rank,
and counselor and skillful magicians and skillful enchanter.
4And I will make boys their princes,
and children shall rule over them.
5And the people will be oppressed by each other#Literally “man by man”
and a man by his neighbor.
The boy will act arrogantly toward the elder,
and the dishonorable toward the honorable.
6Indeed, a man will seize his brother
in the house of his father:
“You have a cloak;#Literally “a cloak for you”
you shall be a leader for us,
and this heap of ruins shall be under your hand!”
7He 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!”
8For Jerusalem has stumbled,
and Judah has fallen
because their speech and their deeds are against Yahweh,
defying the eyes of his glory.
9The 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.
10Tell the innocent#Singular that it is good
for they shall eat the fruit of their deeds.
11Woe to the wicked!#Singular It is bad!
For what is done by his hands will be done to him.
12My 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.
13Yahweh takes his stand to conduct a legal case
and takes his stand to judge the peoples.
14Yahweh 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!
15Why#Literally “What to you” do you crush my people
and grind the face of the poor?”
declares#Literally “declaration of” the Lord Yahweh of hosts.
The Pride of Jerusalem’s Women
16And Yahweh said: “Because#There are two Hebrew words for “because” here 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,#Literally “they go walking and mincing along”
and with their feet they rattle their bangles,#Literally “they tinkle with their feet”
17the Lord will make the heads#Hebrew “head” of the daughters of Zion scabby,
and Yahweh will lay their foreheads bare.”
18In that day the Lord will take away the finery of the anklets
and the headbands and the crescent necklaces,
19the pendants and the bracelets and the veils,
20the headdresses and the armlets and the sashes,
and the perfume boxes#Literally “houses of the breath” and the amulets,
21the signet rings and the nose rings,
22the festal robes and the mantles,
and the cloaks and the handbags,
23and the mirrors and the linen garments,
and the turbans and the wraps.
24And 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.
25Your men shall fall by the sword,
and your warriors in battle.
26And her#That is, Jerusalem’s gates shall lament and mourn,
and she shall be banished;
she shall sit upon the ground.
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