Isaiah 3:1–15

¹For, lo, the Lord, Jehovah of Hosts, Is turning aside from Jerusalem, And from Judah, stay and staff, Every stay of bread, and every stay of water. ²Hero and man of war, judge and prophet, And diviner and elder, ³Head of fifty, and accepted of faces, And counsellor, and the wise of artificers, And the intelligent of charmers. ⁴And I have made youths their heads, And sucklings rule over them. ⁵And the people hath exacted—man upon man, Even a man on his neighbour, Enlarge themselves do the youths against the aged, And the lightly esteemed against the honoured. ⁶When one layeth hold on his brother, Of the house of his father, by the garment, ‘Come, a ruler thou art to us, And this ruin is under thy hand.’ ⁷He lifteth up, in that day, saying: ‘I am not a binder up, And in my house is neither bread nor garment, Ye do not make me a ruler of the people.’ ⁸For stumbled hath Jerusalem, and Judah hath fallen, For their tongue and their doings are against Jehovah, To provoke the eyes of His glory.

⁹The appearance of their faces witnessed against them, And their sin, as Sodom, they declared, They have not hidden! Woe to their soul, For they have done to themselves evil. ¹⁰Say ye to the righteous, that it is good, Because the fruit of their doings they eat. ¹¹Woe to the wicked—evil, Because the deed of his hand is done to him. ¹²My people—its exactors are sucklings, And women have ruled over it. My people—thy eulogists are causing to err, And the way of thy paths swallowed up. ¹³Jehovah hath stood up to plead, And He is standing to judge the peoples. ¹⁴Jehovah into judgment doth enter With elders of His people, and its heads: ‘And ye, ye have consumed the vineyard, Plunder of the poor is in your houses. ¹⁵What—to you? ye bruise My people, And the faces of the poor ye grind.’ An affirmation of the Lord, Jehovah of Hosts, And Jehovah saith: