Isaiah 3:1-15 - Leaders Of Judah And Jerusalem

¹ For behold, the Lord, Jehovah of hosts, will take away from Jerusalem and from Judah stay and staff, the whole stay of bread, and the whole stay of water, ² the mighty man and the man of war, the judge and the prophet, and the diviner and the elder, ³ the captain of fifty, and the honourable man, and the counsellor, and the clever among artificers, and the one versed in enchantments. ⁴ And I will appoint youths as their princes, and children shall rule over them. ⁵ And the people shall be oppressed one by the other, and each by his neighbour; the child will be insolent against the elder, and the base against the honourable. ⁶ When a man shall take hold of his brother, in his father's house, and shall say: Thou hast clothing; be our chief, and let this ruin be under thy hand; ⁷ he will lift up his hand in that day, saying, I cannot be a healer, and in my house there is neither bread nor clothing; ye shall not make me a chief of the people. ⁸ For Jerusalem stumbleth and Judah falleth, because their tongue and their doings are against Jehovah, to provoke the eyes of his glory. ⁹ The look of their face doth witness against them, and they declare their sin as Sodom: they hide it not. Woe unto their soul! for they have brought evil upon themselves. ¹⁰ Say ye of the righteous that it shall be well with him, for they shall eat the fruit of their doings. ¹¹ Woe unto the wicked! it shall be ill with him, because the desert of his hands shall be rendered unto him. ¹² As for my people, children are their oppressors, and women rule over them. My people! they that guide thee mislead thee, and destroy the way of thy paths.

¹³ Jehovah setteth himself to plead, and standeth to judge the peoples. ¹⁴ Jehovah will enter into judgment with the elders of his people and their princes, saying: It is ye that have eaten up the vineyard: the spoil of the poor is in your houses. ¹⁵ What mean ye that ye crush my people, and grind the faces of the afflicted? saith the Lord, Jehovah of hosts.