New American Standard Bible 1995

Isaiah 3:1-8

1For behold, the Lord 1God of hosts 2is going to remove from Jerusalem and Judah Both 3supply and support, the whole 4supply of bread And the whole 5supply of water;2 6The mighty man and the warrior, The judge and the prophet, The diviner and the elder,3The captain of fifty and the honorable man, The counselor and the expert artisan, And the skillful enchanter.4And I will make mere 7lads their princes, And 8capricious children will rule over them,5And the people will be 9oppressed, Each one by another, and each one by his 10neighbor; The youth will storm against the elder And the inferior against the honorable.6When a man 11lays hold of his brother in his father’s house, saying, “You have a cloak, you shall be our ruler, And these ruins will be under your 12charge,”7He will 13protest on that day, saying, “I will not be your 14 15healer, For in my house there is neither bread nor cloak; You should not appoint me ruler of the people.”8For 16Jerusalem has stumbled and Judah has fallen, Because their 17 18speech and their actions are against the Lord, To 19rebel against 20His glorious presence.

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Notes

1. Isaiah 3:1 Heb YHWH, usually rendered Lord ↩
2. Isaiah 3:1 Lev 26:26; Is 5:13; 9:20; Ezek 4:16 ↩
3. Isaiah 3:1 Lit staff ↩
4. Isaiah 3:1 Lit staff ↩
5. Isaiah 3:1 Lit staff ↩
6. Isaiah 3:2 2 Kin 24:14; Is 9:14, 15; Ezek 17:12, 13 ↩
7. Isaiah 3:4 Eccl 10:16 ↩
8. Isaiah 3:4 Lit arbitrary power will rule ↩
9. Isaiah 3:5 Mic 7:3-6 ↩
10. Isaiah 3:5 Is 9:19; Jer 9:3-8 ↩
11. Isaiah 3:6 Is 4:1 ↩
12. Isaiah 3:6 Lit hand ↩
13. Isaiah 3:7 Lit lift up his voice ↩
14. Isaiah 3:7 Lit binder of wounds ↩
15. Isaiah 3:7 Ezek 34:4; Hos 5:13 ↩
16. Isaiah 3:8 Is 1:7; 6:11 ↩
17. Isaiah 3:8 Lit tongue ↩
18. Isaiah 3:8 Ps 73:9-11; Is 9:17; 59:3 ↩
19. Isaiah 3:8 Is 65:3 ↩
20. Isaiah 3:8 Lit the eyes of His glory ↩

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