Isaiah 3–4

3For, behold, ^athe Lord, the Lord of hosts,

^bDoth take away from Jerusalem and from Judah ^cthe stay and the staff,

The whole stay of bread, and the whole stay of water,

^2dThe mighty man, and the man of war,

The judge, and the prophet, and ^ethe prudent, and the ancient,

³The captain of fifty, and ^†the honourable man,

And the counseller, and ^fthe cunning artificer, and the ^||eloquent orator.

⁴And ^hI will give children to be their princes,

And ⁱbabes shall rule over them.

⁵And the people shall be ^joppressed, every one by another, and every one by his neighbour:

The child shall ^kbehave himself proudly against the ancient,

And the base against the honourable.

⁶When ^la man shall take hold of his brother of the house of his father, saying,

Thou hast clothing, be thou our ^mruler,

And let this ⁿruin be under thy hand:

^7oIn that day shall he ^†swear, saying,

I will not be an ^†healer;

For in my house is neither bread nor clothing:

Make me not a ^mruler of the people.

⁸For Jerusalem ⁿis ruined, and Judah is fallen:

Because their tongue and their doings are against the Lord,

^pTo provoke the eyes of his glory.

⁹The shew of their countenance doth witness against them;

And they ^qdeclare their sin ^ras Sodom, they hide it not.

Woe unto their soul! for they have rewarded evil unto themselves.

¹⁰Say ye to the righteous, ^sthat it shall be ^twell with him:

For ^uthey shall eat the fruit of their doings.

¹¹Woe unto the wicked! ^vit shall be ill with him:

For ^wthe reward of his hands shall be ^†given him.

¹²As for my people, ^hchildren are their ^joppressors,

And women rule over them.

O my people, ^||they which lead thee cause thee to err,

And ^†destroy the way of thy paths.

¹³The Lord ^xstandeth up ^yto plead,

And standeth to judge the people.

¹⁴The Lord ^zwill enter into judgment with the ancients of his people, and the princes thereof:

For ye have ^||eaten up ^athe vineyard;

The spoil of the poor is in your houses.

¹⁵What mean ye that ye ^bbeat my people to pieces,

And grind the faces of the poor?

Saith the Lord God of hosts.

¹⁶Moreover the Lord saith,

^cBecause ^dthe daughters of Zion are haughty,

And walk with stretched forth necks and ^†wanton eyes,

Walking and ^||mincing as they go,

And ^emaking a tinkling with their feet:

¹⁷Therefore the Lord will smite with a scab the crown of the head of ^dthe daughters of Zion,

And the Lord will ^†fdiscover their secret parts.

^18gIn that day the Lord will take away the bravery of their ^etinkling ornaments about their feet,

And ^htheir ^||cauls, and their ⁱround tires like the moon,

¹⁹The ^||chains, and the bracelets, and the ^||mufflers,

^20kThe bonnets, and the ornaments of the legs, and ^lthe headbands,

And the ^†tablets, and ^mthe earrings,

²¹ⁿThe rings, and ^onose jewels,

^22pThe changeable suits of apparel, and the mantles,

And ^qthe wimples, and ^rthe crisping pins,

^23rrThe glasses, and ^sthe fine linen,

And ^tthe hoods, and ^uthe vails.

²⁴And it shall come to pass, that ^vinstead of sweet smell there shall be ^wstink;

And instead of a girdle a rent;

And instead of ^hwell set hair ^vxbaldness;

And instead of a stomacher ^ya girding of sackcloth;

And burning ^zinstead of beauty.

²⁵Thy men shall fall by the sword,

And thy ^†mighty in the war.

²⁶And ^aher gates shall ^blament and mourn;

And she being ^||†desolate ^cshall sit upon the ground.

4And ^ain that day ^bseven women ^cshall take hold of ^done man, saying,

We will eat our own bread, and wear our own apparel:

Only ^†let us be called by thy name,

^||eTo take away our reproach.

^2aIn that day shall ^eethe branch of the Lord be ^†beautiful and glorious,

And the fruit of the earth shall be ^ffexcellent and comely

^†For them that are escaped of Israel.

³And it shall come to pass, that he that is left in Zion,

And he that remaineth in Jerusalem,

^hShall be called holy,

Even every one ⁱthat is written ^||among the living in Jerusalem:

^4jWhen the Lord shall have washed away the filth of ^kthe daughters of Zion,

And shall have ^lpurged the blood of Jerusalem from the midst thereof

^llBy the spirit of judgment, and by the spirit of burning.

⁵And the Lord will create upon every dwelling place of mount Zion,

And upon her assemblies,

^mA cloud and smoke by day,

And ⁿthe shining ^mof a flaming fire by night:

For ^||upon all the glory shall be ^†a defence.

⁶And there shall be ^oa tabernacle ^pfor a shadow in the daytime from the heat,

And ^qfor a place of refuge, and for ^ra covert from storm and from rain.