Isaya 3

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Jerusalem stripped of what it leans on

¹For look: the Lord, the LORD of Armies, is about to take away from Jerusalem and from Judah everything they lean on, \q all the bread they rely on and all the water they rely on, ²the hero and the fighting man, \q the judge and the prophet, the fortune-teller and the elder, ³the officer over fifty and the man of high rank, \q the adviser, the clever magician, and the expert in spells. ⁴I will give them boys to be their officials, \q and fickle whims will govern them. ⁵The people will oppress one another, \q each person against the next and each against a neighbor. \q The young will defy the old, \q and the despised will defy the respected. ⁶One man will catch hold of his brother in their father’s house: \q “You still own a cloak. Be our chief, \q and let this pile of rubble be in your care.” ⁷On that day he will raise his voice and say, “I am no binder of wounds! \q There is no bread in my house and no cloak. \q Do not set me up as the people’s chief.” ⁸Jerusalem has tripped and Judah lies fallen, \q for what they say and what they do opposes the LORD; \q they rebel in full view of his glory. ⁹Their faces give evidence against them. \q Like Sodom, they announce their sin openly and do not conceal it. \q Woe to their souls! They have dealt out harm to themselves. ¹⁰Say of the righteous that good awaits them, \q for they will feed on the harvest of what they have done. ¹¹Woe to the wicked! Trouble lies ahead, \q for they will get back the same treatment their hands gave. ¹²My people! Their taskmasters are childish, \q and women govern them. \q My people, those who guide you lead you off course; \q they have swallowed up the road you should walk.

The LORD brings a charge

¹³The LORD takes his place to bring a charge; \q he stands up to judge the peoples. ¹⁴The LORD comes into court against the elders and the leaders of his people: \q You are the ones who have burned the vineyard; \q your houses hold what you robbed from the poor. ¹⁵What right do you have to crush my people and to grind the faces of the poor? \q declares the Lord GOD of Armies.

The proud daughters of Zion

¹⁶The LORD said: Since the daughters of Zion are proud \q and go about with heads held high and flirting eyes, \q stepping daintily as they walk and jingling the rings on their ankles, ¹⁷the Lord will cover the heads of the daughters of Zion with scabs, \q and the LORD will strip their foreheads bare.

¹⁸On that day the Lord will strip away their finery: the anklets, the headbands, and the moon-shaped ornaments, ¹⁹the eardrops, the bracelets, and the veils, ²⁰the headdresses, the ankle chains, the sashes, the vials of perfume, and the amulets, ²¹the signet rings and the nose rings, ²²the festive garments, the outer robes, the wraps, and the money bags, ²³the hand mirrors, the linen garments, the turbans, and the long veils. ²⁴Then, where there was perfume, there will be the smell of rot; where there was a belt, a rope; where hair was elegantly arranged, a bare scalp; \q where a rich robe was worn, a band of sackcloth; \q and a burn scar where there was beauty. ²⁵The sword will cut down your men, \q and your mighty ones will fall in war. ²⁶Her gates will moan and grieve, \q and she will sit on the ground, emptied of all she had.