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

¹ For lo! the Lord, Yahweh of hosts, removing from Jerusalem and from Judah, The stay and staff, - The whole stay of bread, And the whole stay of water: ² Man of might and man of war, - Judge and prophet And diviner and elder; ³ Captain of fifty, and favourite; And counsellor and skilled artificer, And master of magical formulas; ⁴ And I will appoint boys to be their princes, - And, petulant children, shall rule over them, ⁵ And the people will, tyrannise, Every man over his fellow-man, And every man over his friend, - And they will rage The boy against, the elder, And the despised, against, the honourable, ⁶ When a man shall lay hold, on his brother of the house of his father, saying - Clothing, hast thou, Become thou our, ruler, This downfall, be under thy hand, ⁷ He will swear, in that day, saying - I will take no control, When in mine own house, is neither food nor clothing, - Ye must not set me for a ruler of people! ⁸ For stumbled bath Jerusalem, and, Judah, hath fallen, - Because, their tongue and their doings, are against Yahweh, Provoking his glorious presence, ⁹ The show of their face, hath answered against them, And their sin - like Sodom, have they told, they have not concealed it. Alas for their souls! For they have requited to themselves, calamity. ¹⁰ Say ye to the righteous It is well! For the fruit of their doings, shall they eat: ¹¹ Alas! for the lawless, it is ill, For what his own hand hath matured, shall he done to him. ¹² My people! children, are their tyrants, And, women, rule over them, - My people! they who should lead thee forward, are causing thee to stray, Thy pathways, have they destroyed,

¹³ Yahweh hath taken his station to plead, - And is standing to judge peoples: ¹⁴ Yahweh, into judgment, will enter, With the elders of his people And their princes, - But ye, have consumed the vineyard, That which hath been robbed from the oppressed, is in your houses. ¹⁵ What right have ye to crush my people, And the faces of the oppressed, to grind? Demandeth My Lord Yahweh of hosts - And Yahweh saith -