New American Standard Bible 2020

Isaiah 3:1-8

1For behold, the Lord 1God of armies 2is going to remove from Jerusalem and Judah Both supply and support, the entire supply of bread And the entire supply of water;2 3The mighty man and the warrior, The judge and the prophet, The diviner and the elder,3The captain of fifty and the esteemed person, The counselor and the expert artisan, And the skillful enchanter.4And I will make mere 4boys their leaders, And 5mischievous children will rule over them,5And the people will be 6oppressed, Each one by another, and each one by his 7neighbor; The youth will assault the elder, And the contemptible person will assault the one honored.6When a man 8lays 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 9authority,”7He will 10protest on that day, saying, “I will not be your 11 12healer, For in my house there is neither bread nor cloak; You should not appoint me ruler of the people.”8For 13Jerusalem has stumbled and Judah has fallen, Because their 14 15speech and their actions are against the Lord, To 16rebel against 17His 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 3:2 2 Kin 24:14; Is 9:14, 15; Ezek 17:12, 13 ↩
4. Isaiah 3:4 Eccl 10:16 ↩
5. Isaiah 3:4 Or arbitrary power will rule ↩
6. Isaiah 3:5 Mic 7:3-6 ↩
7. Isaiah 3:5 Is 9:19; Jer 9:3-8 ↩
8. Isaiah 3:6 Is 4:1 ↩
9. Isaiah 3:6 Lit hand ↩
10. Isaiah 3:7 Lit lift up his voice ↩
11. Isaiah 3:7 Lit binder of wounds ↩
12. Isaiah 3:7 Ezek 34:4; Hos 5:13 ↩
13. Isaiah 3:8 Is 1:7; 6:11 ↩
14. Isaiah 3:8 Lit tongue ↩
15. Isaiah 3:8 Ps 73:9-11; Is 9:17; 59:3 ↩
16. Isaiah 3:8 Is 65:3 ↩
17. Isaiah 3:8 Lit the eyes of His glory ↩

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