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OEB ISA Chapter 3

ISA 3 ©

3Behold, the Lord the Lord of Hosts

take staff and stay from Jerusalem and Judah-

2soldiers and Warriors, judges and prophets,

3deviners and elders, and captains of fifty,

men of distinction, and men of sage counsel,

cunning magicians and skilful enchanters.

4And boys I will give them for princes,

and men of caprice will rule over them.

5The people will play the tyrant,

each man over his neighbour.

The young will be rude to the aged,

the man of low rank to the high.


6One will take hold of his fellow, and say to him:

‘Your family has a robe;

come, and do you be our ruler,

and take this ruin in hand.’

7Then will the other protest,

‘No, truly: I cannot dress your wounds.

In my own house there is no bread,

nor yet is there a robe.

You will not thrust upon me

The leadership of the people.’


8Jerusalem is stumbling to ruin,

and Judah must surely fall;

for by word and by deed they defy the Lord,

provoking those glorious eyes of his.

9Their respecting of persons is witness against them;

like Sodom they publish their sin undisguisedly.

Woe unto them! They have wrought their own ruin.

10Happy righteous! For well they will fare,

they will reap the fruit of their doings.

11But woe to the wicked! For ill they will fare,

their deeds will be recompensed unto them.


12My people are cruelly governed,

extortions rule over them.

O My people, your leaders mislead,

and confuse the way you should go.

13The Lord is taking his place for the trial,

he stands to judge his people.

14The Lord summons to judgment

the elders and princes of his people.

‘Yes, you have devoured the vineyard,

the spoil of the poor is in your houses.

15What mean you by crushing my people

and grinding the faces of the poor?’

says the Lord God of Hosts.

The doom of the haughty women

16Moreover the Lord said:

‘Because Zion’s daughters are haughty,

walking with heads held high,

and eyes for ever ogling,

with dainty little steps,

and anklets ever jingling,

17the Lord will smite with a scab

the head of the daughters of Zion,

and their shame will the Lord lay bare.

18That day the Lord will remove

the finery of the anklets,

the net-bands and the moons,

19the ear-drops and bracelets and veils,

20the head-dresses, armlets, and sashes,

the perfume-boxes and amulets,

21the signet-rings and the nose-rings,

22the state-gowns, the mantles, the shawls, and the satchels,

23the gauzes and linens, the turbans and veils.


24Sweet scents will give place unto stench,

and the girdle be changed for a rope.

And well-set hair will be bald,

and for elegant robe will be sackcloth,

for beauty the brand (of a slave).

25Your liegemen will fall by the sword,

and your mighty men in the battle.

26Her gates will lament and mourn,

as she lies despoiled on the ground.

ISA 3 ©

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