Isaiah, Chapter 3:

Verses from Isaiah, Chapter 3 of the Book of Isaiah of the Bible.

Judgment on Judah and Jerusalem

• 1. Listen well! The Sovereign Lord of hosts will take from Jerusalem and from Judah all sustenance: bread and water;
• 2. The hero and the warrior, the judge and the prophet, the soothsayer and the elder will also be taken away,
• 3. the captain and the nobleman, the adviser, the skilled craftsman and the eloquent orator.
• 4 So this day I will hand over youth as their leaders, and irresponsibility will reign.
• 5. The people will be oppressed, one by the other, and all against the next; the young will rebel against the old, and the vile against the honorable.
• 6 A man will take his brother by the tunic and say, “You have authority! Be our leader and rule us, for this desolation is in your hands.”
• 7 But he will answer in that day, “I cannot be a doctor, there is neither bread nor cloak in my house; don’t make me leader of the people!”
• 8 Jerusalem is ruined, and Judah is crumbling, for their words and actions are against the Lord, defying His glorious presence.
• 9 Their countenances testify against them; like Sodom, they proclaim their sin without concealing it. Woe to them, for they bring disgrace upon themselves!
• 10 Tell the righteous that it will be well with them, for they will eat the fruit of their ways.
• 11 But woe to the wicked! Your reward will be the evil your hands have wrought.
• 12 As for my people, children will oppress them, and women will rule over them. My people, those who guide you lead you astray and destroy the path you should follow.
• 13 The Lord stands to judge, he stands to judge the peoples.
• 14 The Lord will come to judgment against the elders and princes of his people: “You have consumed the vineyard, the spoil of the poor is in your houses!
• 15 What does it mean to crush my people and grind the faces of the poor?” – declares the Lord, the Sovereign of hosts.
• 16 The Lord says, “Because of the pride of the women of Zion, they will walk with their heads held high and cast seductive eyes,
• 17 Then God will shave the heads of the women of Zion, and the Lord will make their shame bare.”
• 18 On that day the Lord will take away your ornaments: your foot ornaments, your nets, your pendants,
• 19 the earrings, the bracelets and the veils,
• 20 turbans, amulets, and belts,
• 21 the vials of perfume and the charms of enchantment,
• 22 the rings and the nosepieces,
• 23 the splendid clothes and the fine cloaks, the shawls and the bags.
• 24 Instead of perfume there will be a stench; instead of belts, ropes; instead of well-groomed hair, shaved heads; instead of fine garments, mourning garments; instead of beauty, inflamed wounds.
• 25 Your men will fall by the sword, and your mighty men will perish in battle.
• 26 Then the gates of Zion will wail and wail, and the city will be desolate, sitting on the ground without its people.