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 mighty warrior and man of war, judge and prophet,
  • and diviner and elder,
  • 3 captain of fifty and the honorable men of rank, and counselor and skillful magicians and skillful enchanter.
  • 4 And I will make boys their princes, and children shall rule over them.
  • 5 And the people will be oppressed by each other[fn] and a man by his neighbor.
• The boy will act arrogantly toward the elder,
  • and the dishonorable toward the honorable.
  • 6 Indeed, a man will seize his brother in the house of his father:
• “ You have a cloak ;[fn]
  • you shall be a leader for us,
  • and this heap of ruins shall be under your hand!”
• 7 He will lift up 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 For Jerusalem has stumbled, and Judah has fallen
• because their speech and their deeds are against Yahweh,
  • defying the eyes of his glory.
  • 9 The look on their faces testifies against them 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 Tell the innocent[fn] that it is good for they shall eat the fruit of their deeds.
  • 11 Woe to the wicked![fn] It is bad! For what is done by his hands will be done to him.
  • 12 My people—children are their oppressors, and women rule over them.
• My people, your leaders are misleading you,
  • and they confuse the course of your paths.
  • 13 Yahweh takes his stand to conduct a legal case and takes his stand to judge the peoples.
• 14 Yahweh enters into judgment with the elders of his people and its princes. “And you! You have devoured the vineyard;
  • the spoil of the poor is in your houses!
  • 15 Why[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 And Yahweh said: “Because[fn] the daughters of Zion are haughty, and they walk with outstretched neck,
• and they give flirting glances with their eyes,
  • mincing along as they go ,[fn]
• and with their feet they rattle their bangles ,[fn]
• 17 the Lord will make the heads[fn] of the daughters of Zion scabby, and Yahweh will lay their foreheads bare.”
• 18 In that day the Lord will take away the finery of the anklets and the headbands and the crescent necklaces,
• 19 the pendants and the bracelets and the veils,
• 20 the headdresses and the armlets and the sashes, and the perfume boxes[fn] and the amulets,
  • 21 the signet rings and the nose rings,
  • 22 the festal robes and the mantles, and the cloaks and the handbags,
  • 23 and the mirrors and the linen garments, and the turbans and the wraps.
  • 24 And this shall happen: There will be 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 Your men shall fall by the sword, and your warriors in battle.
  • 26 And her[fn] gates shall lament and mourn, and she shall be banished;
    • she shall sit upon the ground.