Isaiah 3

Behold now, the Master, the Lord Sabaoth, will take away from Judea and from Jerusalem the strong man and the strong woman, the strength of bread and the strength of water,

the giant and the strong man, and the man of war and the judge and the prophet and the diviner and the elder,

and the captain of fifty and the wonderful counsellor and the wise master builder and the intelligent listener.

And I will set youths as their rulers, and mockers shall lord it over them.

And the people shall fall upon one another, man against man and man against his neighbor; the child shall strike against the elder, the dishonorable against the honorable.

For a man shall take hold of his brother, or of one of his father's household, saying: You have a garment; be our leader, and let my food be under you.

And answering he shall say in that day: I will not be your leader, for there is no bread in my house, nor a garment; I will not be leader of this people.

For Jerusalem has been let go and Judea has fallen; and their tongues are with lawlessness, disobeying the things pertaining to the Lord; therefore now their glory has been brought low.

And the shame of their face has risen up against them; and they have declared their sin as Sodom, and made it manifest. Woe to their soul, for they have taken evil counsel against themselves,

saying: Let us bind the righteous one, for he is troublesome to us. Therefore they shall eat the fruits of their works.

Woe to the lawless one! Evils shall come upon him according to the works of his hands.

O my people, your exactors glean you, and those who demand payment rule over you. O my people, those who call you blessed lead you astray, and they trouble the path of your feet.

But now the Lord will take his stand for judgment, and will set his people for judgment.

The Lord himself shall come to judgment with the elders of the people and with their rulers: But you, why have you burned my vineyard, and the plunder of the poor is in your houses?

Why do you wrong my people and shame the face of the poor?

Thus says the Lord: Because the daughters of Sion are haughty and walk with outstretched neck and with beckoning eyes, and in their gait trailing their tunics together and mincing together with their feet,

therefore God will humble the ruling daughters of Sion, and the Lord will uncover their form.

In that day the Lord will also take away the glory of their clothing, and their ornaments, and their hair-braids, and their fringes, and their crescents,

and the necklace and the adornment of their face,

and the composition of the ornament of glory, and the armlets and the bracelets and the hair-band and the arm-bands and the rings and the earrings,

and the garments bordered with purple and those interwoven with purple,

and the coverings used about the house and the transparent Laconian garments,

and the fine linen garments and the blue ones and the scarlet ones, and the fine linen interwoven with gold and blue, and the flowing summer veils.

And it shall be that instead of a sweet smell there shall be dust, and instead of a girdle you shall gird yourself with a rope; and instead of the golden ornament of the head you shall have baldness because of your works; and instead of the purple-bordered tunic you shall gird yourself with sackcloth.

And your most beautiful son, whom you love, shall fall by the sword; and your mighty men shall fall by the sword.

And the cases of your ornaments shall be humbled and shall mourn; and you shall be left alone, and shall be dashed to the ground.