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For Jerusalem is ruined, and Judah is fallen;
    because their tongue and their doings are against Yahweh,
to provoke the eyes of his glory.
The look of their faces testify against them.
    They parade their sin like Sodom.
    They don’t hide it.
    Woe to their soul!
    For they have brought disaster upon themselves.
10 Tell the righteous “Good!”
    For they shall eat the fruit of their deeds.
11 Woe to the wicked!
    Disaster is upon them;
    for the deeds of his hands will be paid back to him.
12 As for my people, children are their oppressors,
    and women rule over them.
    My people, those who lead you cause you to err,
    and destroy the way of your paths.

13 Yahweh stands up to contend,
    and stands to judge the peoples.
14 Yahweh will enter into judgment with the elders of his people
    and their leaders:
    “It is you who have eaten up the vineyard.
    The plunder of the poor is in your houses.
15     What do you mean that you crush my people,
    and grind the face of the poor?” says the Lord, Yahweh of Armies.

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For Jerusalem has stumbled,
    and Judah has fallen,
because their (A)speech and their deeds are against the Lord,
    (B)defying his glorious presence.[a]

For the look on their faces bears witness against them;
    they proclaim their sin (C)like Sodom;
    they do not hide it.
Woe to them!
    (D)For they have brought evil on themselves.
10 (E)Tell the righteous that it shall be well with them,
    (F)for they shall eat the fruit of their deeds.
11 (G)Woe to the wicked! It shall be ill with him,
    for what his hands have dealt out shall be done to him.
12 My people—(H)infants are their oppressors,
    and women rule over them.
O my people, (I)your guides mislead you
    and they have swallowed up[b] the course of your paths.

13 The Lord (J)has taken his place to contend;
    he stands to judge peoples.
14 The Lord will enter into judgment
    with the (K)elders and princes of his people:
“It is you who (L)have devoured[c] the vineyard,
    (M)the spoil of the poor is in your houses.
15 What do you mean by (N)crushing my people,
    by grinding the face of the poor?”
declares the Lord God of hosts.

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 3:8 Hebrew the eyes of his glory
  2. Isaiah 3:12 Or they have confused
  3. Isaiah 3:14 Or grazed over; compare Exodus 22:5