Isaiah 3:1–9

1  For behold, the Lord, Jehovah of hosts, will take away from Jerusalem and from Judah stay and staff, the whole stay of bread, and the whole stay of water, 2  the mighty man and the man of war, the judge and the prophet, and the diviner and the elder, 3  the captain of fifty, and the honourable man, and the counsellor, and the clever among artificers, and the one versed in enchantments. 4  And I will appoint youths as their princes, and children shall rule over them. 5  And the people shall be oppressed one by the other, and each by his neighbour; the child will be insolent against the elder, and the base against the honourable. 6  When a man shall take hold of his brother, in his father’s house, and shall say: Thou hast clothing; be our chief, and let this ruin be under thy hand; 7  he will lift up his hand in that day, saying, I cannot be a healer, and in my house there is neither bread nor clothing; ye shall not make me a chief of the people. 8  For Jerusalem stumbleth and Judah falleth, because their tongue and their doings are against Jehovah, to provoke the eyes of his glory.

9  The look of their face doth witness against them, and they declare their sin as Sodom: they hide it not. Woe unto their soul! for they have brought evil upon themselves.