# Isaiah 3 [[Isaiah 2|←]] • [[Isaiah 4|→]] --- ### 1 For, behold, the Lord, the Lord of hosts, doth take away from Jerusalem and from Judah the stay and the staff, the whole stay of bread, and the whole stay of water, ### 2 The mighty man, and the man of war, the judge, and the prophet, and the prudent, and the ancient, ### 3 The captain of fifty, and the honourable man, and the counseller, and the cunning artificer, and the eloquent orator. ### 4 And I will give children their princes, and babes shall rule over them. ### 5 And the people shall be oppressed, every one by another, and every one by his neighbour: the child shall behave himself proudly against the ancient, and the base against the honourable. ### 6 When a man shall take hold of his brother of the house of his father, Thou hast clothing, be thou our ruler, and this ruin under thy hand: ### 7 In that day shall he swear, saying, I will not be an healer; for in my house neither bread nor clothing: make me not a ruler of the people. ### 8 For Jerusalem is ruined, and Judah is fallen: because their tongue and their doings against the Lord, to provoke the eyes of his glory. ### 9 The shew of their countenance doth witness them; against and they declare their sin as Sodom, they hide not. Woe unto their soul! for they have rewarded evil unto themselves. ### 10 Say ye to the righteous, that well for they shall eat the fruit of their doings. ### 11 Woe unto the wicked! ill for the reward of his hands shall be given him. ### 12 my people, children their oppressors, and women rule over them. O my people, they which lead thee cause to err, and destroy the way of thy paths. ### 13 The Lord standeth up to plead, and standeth to judge the people. ### 14 The Lord will enter into judgment with the ancients of his people, and the princes thereof: for ye have eaten up the vineyard; the spoil of the poor in your houses. ### 15 What mean ye ye beat pieces, my people to and grind the faces of the poor? saith the Lord God of hosts. ### 16 Moreover the Lord saith, Because the daughters of Zion are haughty, and walk with stretched forth necks and wanton eyes, walking and mincing they go, and making a tinkling with their feet: ### 17 Therefore the Lord will smite with a scab the crown of the head of the daughters of Zion, and the Lord will discover their secret parts. ### 18 In that day the Lord will take away the bravery of tinkling ornaments and cauls, and round tires like the moon, ### 19 The chains, and the bracelets, and the mufflers, ### 20 The bonnets, and the ornaments of the legs, and the headbands, and the tablets, and the earrings, ### 21 The rings, and nose jewels, ### 22 The changeable suits of apparel, and the mantles, and the wimples, and the crisping pins, ### 23 The glasses, and the fine linen, and the hoods, and the vails. ### 24 And it shall come to pass, instead of sweet smell there shall be stink; and instead of a girdle a rent; and instead of well set hair baldness; and instead of a stomacher a girding of sackcloth; burning instead of beauty. ### 25 Thy men shall fall by the sword, and thy mighty in the war. ### 26 And her gates shall lament and mourn; and she desolate shall sit upon the ground.