Isaías 3

¹ For behold, the Lord, Jehovah of hosts, will take away from Jerusalem and from Judah stay and staff, the whole stay of bread, and the whole stay of water, ² the mighty man and the man of war, the judge and the prophet, and the diviner and the elder, ³ the captain of fifty, and the honourable man, and the counsellor, and the clever among artificers, and the one versed in enchantments. ⁴ And I will appoint youths as their princes, and children shall rule over them. ⁵ And the people shall be oppressed one by the other, and each by his neighbour; the child will be insolent against the elder, and the base against the honourable. ⁶ When a man shall take hold of his brother, in his father's house, and shall say: Thou hast clothing; be our chief, and let this ruin be under thy hand; ⁷ he will lift up his hand in that day, saying, I cannot be a healer, and in my house there is neither bread nor clothing; ye shall not make me a chief of the people. ⁸ For Jerusalem stumbleth and Judah falleth, because their tongue and their doings are against Jehovah, to provoke the eyes of his glory.

⁹ The look of their face doth witness against them, and they declare their sin as Sodom: they hide it not. Woe unto their soul! for they have brought evil upon themselves. ¹⁰ Say ye of the righteous that it shall be well with him , for they shall eat the fruit of their doings. ¹¹ Woe unto the wicked! it shall be ill with him , because the desert of his hands shall be rendered unto him. ¹²  As for my people, children are their oppressors, and women rule over them. My people! they that guide thee mislead thee , and destroy the way of thy paths. ¹³ Jehovah setteth himself to plead, and standeth to judge the peoples. ¹⁴ Jehovah will enter into judgment with the elders of his people and their princes, saying: It is ye that have eaten up the vineyard: the spoil of the poor is in your houses. ¹⁵ What mean ye that ye crush my people, and grind the faces of the afflicted? saith the Lord, Jehovah of hosts.

¹⁶ And Jehovah said, Because the daughters of Zion are haughty, and walk with stretched-out neck and wanton eyes, and go along mincing, and making a tinkling with their feet; ¹⁷ therefore the Lord will make bald the crown of the head of the daughters of Zion, and Jehovah will lay bare their secret parts. ¹⁸ In that day the Lord will take away the ornament of anklets, and the little suns and crescents, ¹⁹ the pearl-drops, and the bracelets, and the veils, ²⁰ the head-dresses, and the stepping chains, and the girdles, and the scent-boxes, and the amulets; ²¹ the finger-rings, and the nose-rings; ²² the festival-robes, and the tunics, and the mantles, and the wallets; ²³ the mirrors, and the fine linen bodices, and the turbans, and the flowing veils. ²⁴ And it shall come to pass, instead of perfume there shall be rottenness; and instead of a girdle, a rope; and instead of well-set hair, baldness; and instead of a robe of display, a girding of sackcloth; brand instead of beauty. ²⁵ Thy men shall fall by the sword, and thy mighty in the fight; ²⁶ and her gates shall lament and mourn; and, stripped, she shall sit upon the ground.