Leaders of Judah and Jerusalem

For look, the Lord Yahweh of hosts is removing every source of support^[a]

from Jerusalem and from Judah:

all of the supplies of bread

and all of the supplies of water,

² mighty warrior and man of war,

judge and prophet,

and diviner and elder,

³ captain of fifty and the honorable men of rank,

and counselor and skillful magicians and skillful enchanter.

⁴ And I will make boys their princes,

and children shall rule over them.

⁵ And the people will be oppressed by each other^[b]

and a man by his neighbor.

The boy will act arrogantly toward the elder,

and the dishonorable toward the honorable.

⁶ Indeed, a man will seize his brother

in the house of his father:

“You have a cloak;^[c]

you shall be a leader for us,

and this heap of ruins shall be under your hand!”

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!”

⁸ For Jerusalem has stumbled,

and Judah has fallen

because their speech and their deeds are against Yahweh,

defying the eyes of his glory.

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.

¹⁰ Tell the innocent^[d] that it is good

for they shall eat the fruit of their deeds.

¹¹ Woe to the wicked!^[e] It is bad!

For what is done by his hands will be done to him.

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.

¹³ Yahweh takes his stand to conduct a legal case

and takes his stand to judge the peoples.

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!

¹⁵ Why^[f] do you crush my people

and grind the face of the poor?”

declares^[g] the Lord Yahweh of hosts.

The Pride of Jerusalem’s Women

¹⁶ And Yahweh said: “Because^[h] 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,^[i]

and with their feet they rattle their bangles,^[j]

¹⁷ the Lord will make the heads^[k] of the daughters of Zion scabby,

and Yahweh will lay their foreheads bare.”

¹⁸ In that day the Lord will take away the finery of the anklets

and the headbands and the crescent necklaces,

¹⁹ the pendants and the bracelets and the veils,

²⁰ the headdresses and the armlets and the sashes,

and the perfume boxes^[l] and the amulets,

²¹ the signet rings and the nose rings,

²² the festal robes and the mantles,

and the cloaks and the handbags,

²³ and the mirrors and the linen garments,

and the turbans and the wraps.

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.

²⁵ Your men shall fall by the sword,

and your warriors in battle.

²⁶ And her^[m] gates shall lament and mourn,

and she shall be banished;

she shall sit upon the ground.

Footnotes

1. Isaiah 3:1 Literally “supplies and supplies”
2. Isaiah 3:5 Literally “man by man”
3. Isaiah 3:6 Literally “a cloak for you”
4. Isaiah 3:10 Singular
5. Isaiah 3:11 Singular
6. Isaiah 3:15 Literally “What to you”
7. Isaiah 3:15 Literally “declaration of”
8. Isaiah 3:16 There are two Hebrew words for “because” here
9. Isaiah 3:16 Literally “they go walking and mincing along”
10. Isaiah 3:16 Literally “they tinkle with their feet”
11. Isaiah 3:17 Hebrew “head”
12. Isaiah 3:20 Literally “houses of the breath”
13. Isaiah 3:26 That is, Jerusalem’s