Isaiah 3:1-15

Judgment on Judah and Jerusalem

1 For behold, the aLord God of hosts
is taking away from Jerusalem and from Judah
support and supply,
Hebrew staff

all csupport of bread,
and all support of water;
2 dthe mighty man and the soldier,
the judge and the prophet,
the diviner and the elder,
3the captain of fifty
and the man of rank,
the counselor and the skillful magician
and the expert in charms.
4 eAnd I will make boys their princes,
and infants
Or caprice
shall rule over them.
5 gAnd the people will oppress one another,
every one his fellow
and every one his neighbor;
the youth will be insolent to the elder,
and the despised to the honorable.
6 For ha man will take hold of his brother
in the house of his father, saying:
“You have a cloak;
you shall be our leader,
and this heap of ruins
shall be under your rule”;
7in that day he will speak out, saying:
“I will not be a ihealer;
Hebrew binder of wounds

in my house there is neither bread nor cloak;
you shall not make me
leader of the people.”
8For Jerusalem has stumbled,
and Judah has fallen,
because their kspeech and their deeds are against the Lord,
ldefying his glorious presence.
Hebrew the eyes of his glory

9 For the look on their faces bears witness against them;
they proclaim their sin nlike Sodom;
they do not hide it.
Woe to them!
oFor they have brought evil on themselves.
10 pTell the righteous that it shall be well with them,
qfor they shall eat the fruit of their deeds.
11 rWoe to the wicked! It shall be ill with him,
for what his hands have dealt out shall be done to him.
12My peoplesinfants are their oppressors,
and women rule over them.
O my people, tyour guides mislead you
and they have swallowed up
Or  they have confused
the course of your paths.
13 The Lord vhas taken his place to contend;
he stands to judge peoples.
14The Lord will enter into judgment
with the welders and princes of his people:
“It is you who xhave devoured
Or grazed over; compare Exodus 22:5
the vineyard,
zthe spoil of the poor is in your houses.
15What do you mean by aacrushing my people,
by grinding the face of the poor?”

declares the Lord God of hosts.
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