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

¹ For look, the Lord Yahweh of hosts [is] removing {every source of support} 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} 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}; 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 that [it is] good for they shall eat the fruit of their deeds. ¹¹ Woe to the wicked! [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} do you crush my people and grind [the] face of [the] poor?" {declares} the Lord Yahweh of hosts.