Isaiah 3:1-7

Jubilee Bible 2000

3 ¶ For, behold, the Lord, the LORD of the hosts, takes 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, the fortune-teller and the ancient,

³ the captain of fifty and the honourable man and the counsellor and the cunning artificer and the eloquent wise man.

⁴ And I will give children to be their princes, and young fools shall rule over them.

⁵ And the people shall do violence, one against another, and each one against his neighbour; the child shall rise up 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, saying, Thou hast clothing, be thou our ruler, and let this ruin be under thy hand;

⁷ in that day he shall swear, saying, I will not be a healer for in my house is neither bread nor clothing: do not make me a ruler of the people.