Isaiah 3:8-15

Lexham English Bible

⁸ For Jerusalem has stumbled,
    and Judah has fallen
because their speech and their deeds are against Yahweh,
    defying the eyes of his glory.
⁹ The look on their faces testifies against them
    and they declare their sin like Sodom;
        they do not hide it.
Woe to their soul!
    For they have dealt out evil to themselves.
¹⁰ Tell the innocent^[a] that it is good
    for they shall eat the fruit of their deeds.
¹¹ Woe to the wicked!^[b] It is bad!
    For what is done by his hands will be done to him.
¹² My people—children are their oppressors,
    and women rule over them.
My people, your leaders are misleading you,
    and they confuse the course of your paths.
¹³ Yahweh takes his stand to conduct a legal case
    and takes his stand to judge the peoples.
¹⁴ Yahweh enters into judgment with the elders of his people and its princes.
“And you! You have devoured the vineyard;
    the spoil of the poor is in your houses!
¹⁵ Why^[c] do you crush my people
    and grind the face of the poor?”