Isaiah, Chapter 3:

Verses from Isaiah, Chapter 3 of the book of Isaiah in the Bible.

Isaiah - Old Testament. — Isaiah – Old Testament.

Judgment on Judah and Jerusalem

1. Listen carefully! The Sovereign Lord of Hosts will take all the food from Jerusalem and Judah: bread and water;
2. the hero and the warrior, the judge and the prophet, the soothsayer and the elder will also be removed,
3. the captain and the nobleman, the counselor, the skilled craftsman and the eloquent speaker.
4 So on this day I will hand over young men as their leaders, and irresponsibility will reign.
5. The people will be oppressed, one by another, and all against their neighbor; 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 on that day: “I cannot be a doctor, there is no bread or cloak in my house; Don’t make me leader of the people!”
8 Jerusalem is ruined, and Judah is falling apart, for their words and actions are against the Lord, defying His glorious presence.
9 Their countenance testifies against them; like Sodom, they proclaim their sin without hiding it. Woe to them, for they bring misfortune upon themselves!
10 Tell the righteous that everything will go well with them, for they will eat the fruit of their way.
11 But woe to the wicked! Your reward will be the evil that your hands have done.
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 stood to judge, he stood 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 Armies.
16 The Lord says, “Because of the pride of the women of Zion, they will hold their heads high and give seductive looks,
17 Then God will shave the heads of the women of Zion, and the Lord will lay bare their shame.”
18 On that day the Lord will take away their ornaments: their foot ornaments, their nets, their pendants,
19 the earrings, the bracelets and the veils,
20 the turbans, the amulets and the belts,
21 the bottles of perfume and the amulets of enchantment,
22 the rings and the nose ornaments,
23 the splendid clothes and the fine cloaks, the shawls and the bags.
24 Instead of perfume there will be a bad smell; instead of belts, ropes; instead of well-groomed hair, shaved heads; instead of fine garments, garments of lamentation; instead of beauty, festering wounds.
25 Your men will fall by the sword, and your warriors will perish in battle.
26 Then the gates of Zion will mourn and lament, and the city will be desolate, sitting on the ground without its people.