LEB ISA Chapter 3

Leaders of Judah and Jerusalem

• from Jerusalem and from Judah:
• all of the supplies of bread
  • and all of the supplies of water,
  • 2  judge and prophet,
  • and diviner and elder,
  • 3  and counselor and skillful magicians and skillful enchanter.
  • 4  and children shall rule over them.
  • 5 [fn] and a man by his neighbor.
• The boy will act arrogantly toward the elder,
  • and the dishonorable toward the honorable.
  • 6  in the house of his father:
• “[fn]
  • you shall be a leader for us,
  • and this heap of ruins shall be under your hand!”
• 7 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  and Judah has fallen
• because their speech and their deeds are against Yahweh,
  • defying the eyes of his glory.
  • 9  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 the innocent[fn] that it is good for they shall eat the fruit of their deeds.
  • 11 [fn] It is bad! For what is done by his hands will be done to him.
  • 12  and women rule over them.
• My people, your leaders are misleading you,
  • and they confuse the course of your paths.
  • 13  and takes his stand to judge the peoples.
• 14  “And you! You have devoured the vineyard;
  • the spoil of the poor is in your houses!
  • 15 [fn] do you crush my people and grind the face of the poor?”

declares[fn] the Lord Yahweh of hosts.

The Pride of Jerusalem’s Women

• 16 [fn] the daughters of Zion are haughty, and they walk with outstretched neck,
• and they give flirting glances with their eyes,
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• and[fn]
• 17 [fn] of the daughters of Zion scabby, and Yahweh will lay their foreheads bare.”
• 18  and the headbands and the crescent necklaces,
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• 20  and the[fn] and the amulets,
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  • 22  and the cloaks and the handbags,
  • 23  and the turbans and the wraps.
  • 24  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  and your warriors in battle.
  • 26 [fn] gates shall lament and mourn, and she shall be banished;
    • she shall sit upon the ground.