Isaiah 3 - 4 - Legacy Standard Bible

Isaiah 3 - 4

Yahweh Will Judge Judah’s Leaders

For behold, the Lord, Yahweh of hosts, is going to remove from Jerusalem and Judah

Both supply and support, the whole supply of bread

And the whole supply of water,

The mighty man and the man of war,

The judge and the prophet,

The diviner and the elder,

The commander of fifty and the highly respected man,

The counselor and the wise craftsman,

And the experienced enchanter.

And I will make young men their princes,

And capricious children will rule over them,

And the people will be oppressed,

Each one by another, and each one by his neighbor;

The youth will overwhelm the elder

And the dishonorable against the honorable.

When a man grasps his brother in his father’s house, saying,

“You have a cloak, you shall be our ruler,

And these ruins will be under your hand,”

He will protest on that day, saying,

“I will not be your healer,

For in my house there is neither bread nor cloak;

You should not appoint me ruler of the people.”

For Jerusalem has stumbled and Judah has fallen,

Because their tongue and their deeds are against Yahweh,

To rebel against His glorious presence.

The expression of their faces answers against them,

And they declare their sin like Sodom;

They do not even conceal it.

Woe to their soul!

For they have dealt out evil on themselves.

Say to the righteous that it will go well with them,

For they will eat the fruit of their deeds.

Woe to the wicked! It will go badly with him,

For what he has dealt out will be done to him.

O My people! Their taskmasters are infants,

And women rule over them.

O My people! Those who guide you lead you astray

And swallow up the way of your paths.

Yahweh takes His stand to contend,

And stands to judge the peoples.

Yahweh enters into judgment with the elders of His people and His princes,

“It is you who have consumed the vineyard;

The plunder robbed of the afflicted is in your houses.

What do you mean by crushing My people

And grinding the face of the afflicted?”

Declares Lord Yahweh of hosts.

Yahweh Will Judge Zion’s Daughters

16 Moreover, Yahweh said, “Because the daughters of Zion are haughty

And walk with outstretched necks and seductive eyes,

And go along with mincing steps

And tinkle the bangles on their feet,

Therefore the Lord will smite the skull of the daughters of Zion with scabs,

And Yahweh will make their foreheads bare.”

18 In that day the Lord will remove the beauty of their anklets, headbands, crescent ornaments, 19 dangling earrings, bracelets, veils, 20 headdresses, ankle chains, sashes, perfume boxes, enchanted charms, 21 finger rings, nose rings, 22 festal robes, outer tunics, cloaks, money purses, 23 hand mirrors, undergarments, turbans, and shawls. 24

Now it will be that instead of sweet perfume there will be the smell of rot;

Instead of a belt, a rope;

Instead of well‑set hair, a plucked‑out scalp;

Instead of fine clothes, a donning of sackcloth;

And branding instead of beauty.

Your men will fall by the sword

And your mighty ones in battle.

And her gates will lament and mourn,

And deserted she will sit on the ground.

And seven women will take hold of one man in that day, saying, “We will eat our own bread and wear our own clothes, only let us be called by your name; take away our reproach!”

The Branch of Yahweh Glorified

2 In that day the Branch of Yahweh will be beautiful and glorious, and the fruit of the earth will be the pride and the honor of those of Israel who escape. 3 It will be that he who remains in Zion and is left in Jerusalem will be called holy—everyone who is written down for life in Jerusalem. 4 When the Lord has washed away the filth of the daughters of Zion and rinsed away the bloodshed of Jerusalem from her midst, by the spirit of judgment and the spirit of burning, 5 then Yahweh will create over the whole area of Mount Zion and over her convocation a cloud by day, even smoke, and the brightness of a flaming fire by night; for over all the glory will be a canopy. 6 And there will be a booth to give shade from the heat by day, and refuge and a hiding place from the storm and the rain.