Isaiah 3 :: Revised Standard Version (RSV)

God Will Remove the Leaders

Isa 3:1For, behold, the Lord, the LORD of hosts, is taking away from Jerusalem and from Judah stay and staff, the whole stay of bread, and the whole stay of water;

Isa 3:2

Isa 3:2the mighty man and the soldier, the judge and the prophet, the diviner and the elder,

Isa 3:3

Isa 3:3the captain of fifty and the man of rank, the counselor and the skilful magician and the expert in charms.

Isa 3:4

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

Isa 3:5

Isa 3:5And the people will oppress one another, every man his fellow and every man his neighbor; the youth will be insolent to the elder, and the base fellow to the honorable.

Isa 3:6

Isa 3:6When a man takes hold of his brother in the house of his father, saying: "You have a mantle; you shall be our leader, and this heap of ruins shall be under your rule";

Isa 3:7

Isa 3:7in that day he will speak out, saying: "I will not be a healer; in my house there is neither bread nor mantle; you shall not make me leader of the people."

Isa 3:8

Isa 3:8For Jerusalem has stumbled, and Judah has fallen; because their speech and their deeds are against the LORD, defying his glorious presence.

Isa 3:9

Isa 3:9Their partiality witnesses against them; they proclaim their sin like Sodom, they do not hide it. Woe to them! For they have brought evil upon themselves.

Isa 3:10

Isa 3:10Tell the righteous that it shall be well with them, for they shall eat the fruit of their deeds.

Isa 3:11

Isa 3:11Woe to the wicked! It shall be ill with him, for what his hands have done shall be done to him.

Isa 3:12

Isa 3:12My people--children are their oppressors, and women rule over them. O my people, your leaders mislead you, and confuse the course of your paths.

God Will Judge

Isa 3:13

Isa 3:13The LORD has taken his place to contend, he stands to judge his people.

Isa 3:14

Isa 3:14The LORD enters into judgment with the elders and princes of his people: "It is you who have devoured the vineyard, the spoil of the poor is in your houses.

Isa 3:15

Isa 3:15What do you mean by crushing my people, by grinding the face of the poor?" says the Lord GOD of hosts.

Judah's Women Denounced

Isa 3:16

Isa 3:16The LORD said: Because the daughters of Zion are haughty and walk with outstretched necks, glancing wantonly with their eyes, mincing along as they go, tinkling with their feet;

Isa 3:17

Isa 3:17the Lord will smite with a scab the heads of the daughters of Zion, and the LORD will lay bare their secret parts.

Isa 3:18

Isa 3:18In that day the Lord will take away the finery of the anklets, the headbands, and the crescents;

Isa 3:19

Isa 3:19the pendants, the bracelets, and the scarfs;

Isa 3:20

Isa 3:20the headdresses, the armlets, the sashes, the perfume boxes, and the amulets;

Isa 3:21

Isa 3:21the signet rings and nose rings;

Isa 3:22

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

Isa 3:23

Isa 3:23the garments of gauze, the linen garments, the turbans, and the veils.

Isa 3:24

Isa 3:24Instead of perfume there will be rottenness; and instead of a girdle, a rope; and instead of well-set hair, baldness; and instead of a rich robe, a girding of sackcloth; instead of beauty, shame.

Isa 3:25

Isa 3:25Your men shall fall by the sword and your mighty men in battle.

Isa 3:26

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

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