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Judgment Comes to Judah’s Leaders

“Note this! The Lord God of the Heavenly Armies
    is taking away from Jerusalem and Judah
        everything that your society needs—[a]
all food supplies
    and all water supplies,
the mighty man
    and the warrior,
the judge
    and the prophet,
the fortune-teller
    and the elder,
the commander of fifty
    and the man of rank,
and the counselor, the expert magician,
    and the medium.

“I will make youths their princes,
    and infants will rule over them.
People will oppress one another—
    It will be man against man
        and neighbor against neighbor.
The young will be disrespectful to the old,
    and the worthless to the honorable.

“For a man will grab his brother
    in his own father’s house,
and say, ‘You have a cloak,
    so you be our leader,
and this heap of ruins
    will be under your rule!’

“But[b] at that time,[c] he’ll protest![d]
    He’ll say, ‘I won’t be your healer.
I have neither food nor clothing in my house!
    You’re not going to make me a leader of the people!’

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 3:1 Lit. Judah both supply and support
  2. Isaiah 3:7 So 1QIsaa LXX; the Heb. lacks But
  3. Isaiah 3:7 Lit. day
  4. Isaiah 3:7 Lit. he’ll cry out

Leaders of Judah and Jerusalem

For look, the Lord Yahweh of hosts is removing every source of support[a]
    from Jerusalem and from Judah:
all of the supplies of bread
    and all of the supplies of water,
mighty warrior and man of war,
    judge and prophet,
    and diviner and elder,
captain of fifty and the honorable men of rank,
    and counselor and skillful magicians and skillful enchanter.
And I will make boys their princes,
    and children shall rule over them.
And the people will be oppressed by each other[b]
    and a man by his neighbor.
The boy will act arrogantly toward the elder,
    and the dishonorable toward the honorable.
Indeed, a man will seize his brother
    in the house of his father:
You have a cloak;[c]
    you shall be a leader for us,
    and this heap of ruins shall be under your hand!”
He will lift up his voice on that day, saying,
“I will not be a healer;
    in my house there is no bread
        and there is no cloak.
    You shall not make me the leader of the people!”

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 3:1 Literally “supplies and supplies”
  2. Isaiah 3:5 Literally “man by man”
  3. Isaiah 3:6 Literally “a cloak for you”