Isaiah 3
3
Downfall of Jerusalem and Judah
1For behold! The Lord, Adonai-Tzva’ot, takes from Jerusalem and from Judah supply and support, every supply of bread and every supply of water,
2mighty man and man of war, judge, and prophet, fortune-teller and elder,
3captain of 50 and man of rank, counselor, crafty magician and cunning charmer.
4I will set children as their rulers. Capricious ones will govern them.
5The people will oppress one another— each one by his fellow, each one by his neighbor. The child will be insolent to the aged, and dishonorable to the honorable.
6When a man takes hold of his brother in the house of his father, saying: “You have a cloak, you be our ruler! This ruin is under your charge.”
7In that day he will protest, saying: “I’m no healer! In my house is no bread or cloak. Don’t make me a ruler of people!”
8For Jerusalem has stumbled, and Judah is fallen. For their tongue and their actions are against Adonai, defying the eyes of His glory.
9The expression of their faces bears witness against them. They display their sin like Sodom— they do not hide it. Oy , their souls! For they brought evil on themselves.
The Judge Arises
10Say to the righteous, he will be well, eating the fruit of their deeds.
11Oy , the wicked! It will be bad for him, for the dealing of his hands will be done to him.
12My people! Children are their oppressors and women rule over them. My people! Your guides mislead you and destroy the way of your paths.
13Adonai arises to contend a case, and stands to judge the people.
14Adonai will enter into judgment with the elders of His people and with the princes: “You have devoured the vineyard. The plunder of the poor is in your houses.
15What do you mean by crushing My people and grinding the face of the poor?” says Adonai Elohei-Tzva’ot.
16Moreover Adonai says: “Since the Daughters of Zion are proud, and walk with outstretched necks and seductive eyes, walking and mincing as they go, making a jingling with their feet,
17therefore Adonai will smite with a scab the forehead of the Daughters of Zion. Adonai will expose their secret parts.
18In that day Adonai will strip the finery of anklets, headbands, crescents,
19pendants and bracelets, veils,
20headdresses, armlets, sashes, perfume vials, amulets,
21rings and nose-jewels,
22festal robes, capes, cloaks, purses,
23lace scarves, fine linen, turbans and veils.
24Now it will come to pass: Instead of sweet spices there will be rottenness; instead of a sash, rags; instead of curled hair, baldness; instead of fine clothing, sackcloth; and branding instead of beauty.
25Your men will fall by the sword, and your warriors in battle.
26Her gates will lament and mourn. Desolate, she will sit on the ground.
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Isaiah 3
3
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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