Isaiah 3
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CHAPTER 3
1For lo! the lordly governor, the Lord of hosts, shall take away from Jerusalem and from Judah a mighty man, and strong, and all the strength of bread, and all the strength of water;
2a strong man, and a man a warrior, and a doomsman, and a prophet, and a false diviner in altars, and an eld [or old] man,
3a prince over fifty men, and a worshipful man in cheer, and a counsellor, and a wise man of principal craftsmen, and a prudent man of mystic, either ghostly, speech.
4And I shall give children to be the princes of them, and men of women’s conditions shall be lords of them.
5And the people shall fall down, a man to a man, each man to his neighbour; a child shall make noise against an eld [or old] man, and an unnoble man against a noble man.
6For a man shall take his brother, the menial of his father, and shall say, A cloth is to thee, be thou our prince; forsooth this falling be under thine hand.
7And he shall answer in that day, and say, I am no leech, and neither bread, neither cloth is in mine house; do not ye make me prince of the people.
8For why Jerusalem fell down, and Judah fell down altogether; for the tongue of them, and the findings of them, were against the Lord, for to stir to wrath the eyes of his majesty.
9The knowing of their cheer hall answer to them; and they preached their sin, as Sodom did, and hid not. Woe to the soul of them, for why evils be yielded to them.
10Say ye to the just [or rightwise] man, that it shall be to him well; for he shall eat the fruit of his findings.
11Woe to the wicked man into evil; for why the yielding of his hands shall be made to him.
12The wrongful askers of my people robbed it, and women were lords thereof. My people, they that say thee blessed, deceive thee, and destroy the way of thy steps.
13The Lord standeth for to deem, and he standeth for to deem [the] peoples;
14the Lord shall come to doom, with the elder men of his people, and with his princes; for ye have wasted my vineyard, and the raven of a poor man is in your house.
15Why all-break ye my people, and grind together the faces of poor men? saith the Lord God of hosts.
16And the Lord God said, For that that the daughters of Zion were raised, and went with neck stretched forth, and went by signs of eyes, and clapped with hands, and went, and with their feet went in well-arrayed going,
17the Lord shall make bald the noll of the daughters of Zion, and the Lord shall make naked the hair of them.
18In that day the Lord shall take away the ornament of shoes, and golden little bells like the moon,
19and ribbons, and brooches, and ornaments of arms nigh the shoulders,
20and mitres, either chaplets, and combs, and ornaments of arms nigh the hands, and golden ornaments like lampreys, and little vessels of ointments, and earrings,
21and rings, and precious stones hanging in the forehead,
22and changing clothes, and mantles, and sheets, either smocks, and needles [or pins],
23and mirrors, and small linen clothes about the shoulders, and kerchiefs, and rochets.
24And stink shall be for sweet odour, and a cord for the girdle; baldness shall be for the crisp hair, and an hair-shirt for a breast-girdle.
25Also thy fairest men shall fall by sword, and thy strong men shall fall in battle.
26And the gates thereof shall wail, and mourn; and it shall sit desolate in [the] earth.
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Isaiah 3
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God Will Remove the Leaders
1Listen carefully, the Lord God of hosts is removing from Jerusalem and from Judah
Both supply and support, the whole supply of bread
And the whole supply of water;
2The brave man and the warrior [He is also removing],
The judge and the prophet,
The diviner and the elder,
3The captain of fifty and the man of honor,
The counselor and the expert artisan,
And the skillful enchanter.
4And I will make mere boys their princes,
And capricious (impulsive, unpredictable) children will rule over them.
5And the people will be oppressed,
Each one by another, and each one by his neighbor;
The boy will be arrogant and insolent toward the elder
And the vulgar (common) toward the honorable [person of rank].
6When a man takes hold of his brother in the house of his father, saying,
“You have a robe, you shall be our judge and ruler,
And this pile of ruins will be under your control,”
7He will protest on that day, saying,
“I will not be a #Or binder of wounds.governor;
For in my house there is neither bread nor clothing;
You should not make me a judge and ruler of the people.”
8For Jerusalem has stumbled and Judah has fallen,
Because their words and their actions are against the Lord,
To rebel against His glorious presence and defiantly provoke Him.
9Their partiality testifies against them,
They display their sin like Sodom;
They do not even hide it.
Woe (judgment is coming) to #Lit their soul.them!
For they have brought evil on themselves [as a reward].
10Say to the righteous that it will go well with them,
For they will eat the fruit of their [righteous] actions.
11Woe (judgment is coming) to the wicked! It shall go badly with him,
For what his hand has done shall be done to him.
12O My people! Children are their oppressors,
And women rule over them.
O My people! Your leaders lead you astray
And confuse (destroy, swallow up) the direction of your paths.
God Will Judge
13The Lord rises to contend,
And stands to judge the people.
14The Lord enters into judgment with the elders of His people and their princes,
“For it is you who have devoured the vineyard [with your oppression, you have robbed the people and ruined the country];
The plunder of the poor is in your houses.
15What do you mean by crushing My people
And grinding the face of the poor?”
Declares the Lord God of hosts.
Judah’s Women Denounced
16Moreover, the Lord said, “Because the daughters of Zion are proud
And walk with outstretched necks and seductive (flirtatious, alluring) eyes,
And trip along with mincing steps and an affected gait
And walk with jingling #Decorative chains attached from one ankle to the other to insure a measured gait.anklets on their feet,
17Therefore the Lord will afflict the crown of the head of the daughters of Zion with scabs [making them bald],
And the Lord will expose their foreheads (send them into captivity).”
18In that day the Lord will take away the beauty of their anklets, [braided] caps, crescent [head] ornaments, 19dangling earrings, bracelets, and the hanging veils and scarves, 20head wraps (turbans), [short, jingling] ankle chains, sashes, perfume boxes, amulets (charms), 21signet [finger] rings, nose rings, 22festival robes, outer tunics, shawls, handbags, 23hand mirrors, [fine linen] undergarments, headbands, and veils [covering the entire body].
24Now it will come to pass that instead of the sweet fragrance of spices there will be [the stench of] rottenness;
Instead of a belt, a rope;
Instead of well-set hair, baldness;
Instead of fine clothes, a robe of sackcloth;
And branding [of captives by the scorching heat] instead of beauty.
25Your men will fall by the sword
And your mighty men in battle.
26And Jerusalem’s gates will lament (cry out in grief) and mourn [as those who wail for the dead];
And she, being ruined and desolate, will sit upon the ground.
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