Isaiah 3:1-8
1
Judgment on Jerusalem and Judah
See now, the Lord,
the Lord Almighty,
is about to take from Jerusalem and Judah
both supply and support:
all supplies of food and all supplies of water,
2
the hero and warrior,
the judge and prophet,
the soothsayer and elder,
3
the captain of fifty and man of rank,
the counselor, skilled craftsman and clever enchanter.
4
I will make boys their officials;
mere children will govern them.
5
People will oppress each other—
man against man, neighbor against neighbor.
The young will rise up against the old,
the base against the honorable.
6
A man will seize one of his brothers
at his father’s home, and say,
“You have a cloak, you be our leader;
take charge of this heap of ruins!”
7
But in that day he will cry out,
“I have no remedy.
I have no food or clothing in my house;
do not make me the leader of the people.”
8
Jerusalem staggers,
Judah is falling;
their words and deeds are against the Lord,
defying his glorious presence.