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Isaiah 3 Brenton's Septuagint Translation
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for I have no bread in my house, nor raiment: I will not be the ruler of this people.<p> <A name="9"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/3-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>For Jerusalem is ruined, and Judea has fallen, and their tongues <i>have spoken</i> with iniquity, disobedient <i>as they are</i> towards the Lord.<p> <A name="10"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/3-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>Wherefore now their glory has been brought low, and the shame of their countenance has withstood them, and they have proclaimed their sin as Sodom, and made it manifest.<p> <A name="11"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/3-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>Woe to their soul, for they have devised an evil counsel against themselves, saying against themselves, Let us bind the just, for he is burdensome to us: therefore shall they eat the fruits of their works.<p> <A name="12"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/3-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>Woe to the transgressor! evils shall happen to him according to the works of his hands.<p> <A name="13"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/3-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>O my people, your exactors strip you, and extortioners rule over you: O my people, they that pronounce you blesses lead you astray, and pervert the path of your feet.<p> <A name="14"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/3-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>But now the Lord will stand up for judgement, and will enter into judgement with his people.<p> <A name="15"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/3-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>The Lord himself shall enter into judgement with the elders of the people, and with their rulers: but why have ye set my vineyard on fire, and <i>why is</i> the spoil of the poor in your houses?<p> <A name="16"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/3-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>Why do ye wrong my people, and shame the face of the poor?<p> <A name="17"></a><p class="hdg">A Warning to the Daughters of Zion<p><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/3-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>Thus saith the Lord, Because the daughters of Sion are haughty, and have walked with an outstretched neck, and with winking of the eyes, and motion of the feet, at the same time drawing their garments in trains, and at the same time sporting with their feet:<p> <A name="18"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/3-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>therefore the Lord will humble the chief daughters of Sion, and the Lord will expose their form in that day;<p> <A name="19"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/3-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>and the Lord will take away the glory of their raiment, the curls and the fringes, and the crescents, <A name="20"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/3-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>and the chains, and the ornaments of their faces, <A name="21"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/3-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>and the array of glorious ornaments, and the armlets, and the bracelets, and the wreathed work, and the finger-rings, and the ornaments for the right hand, <A name="22"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/3-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>and the ear-rings, and the garments with scarlet borders, <A name="23"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/3-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span><font color=blue>(3:21A)</font> and the garments with purple grounds, and the shawls to be worn in the house, and the Spartan transparent dresses, <A name="24"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/3-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span><font color=blue>(3:21B)</font> and those made of fine linen, and the purple <i>ones</i>, and the scarlet <i>ones</i>, and the fine linen, interwoven with gold and purple, and the light coverings for couches.<p> <A name="25"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/3-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span>And there shall be instead of a sweet smell, dust; and instead of a girdle, thou shalt gird thyself with a rope; and instead of a golden ornament for the head, thou shalt have baldness on account of thy works; and instead of a tunic with a scarlet ground, thou shalt gird thyself with sackcloth.<p> <A name="26"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/3-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span>And thy most beautiful son whom thou lovest shall fall by the sword; and your mighty men shall fall by the sword, and shall be brought low.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/3-26.htm"><b>26</b></a></span>And the stores of your ornaments shall mourn, and thou shalt be left alone, and shalt be levelled with the ground.<p><br /></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">The English translation of The Septuagint by Sir Lancelot Charles Lee Brenton (1851)<br><br>Section Headings Courtesy <a href="https://berean.bible">Berean Bible</i><span class="p"><br /><br /></span></div></div></div></div></td></tr></table></div><div id="left"><a href="../isaiah/2.htm" onmouseover='lft.src="/leftgif.png"' onmouseout='lft.src="/left.png"' title="Isaiah 2"><img src="/left.png" name="lft" border="0" alt="Isaiah 2" /></a></div><div id="right"><a href="../isaiah/4.htm" onmouseover='rght.src="/rightgif.png"' onmouseout='rght.src="/right.png"' title="Isaiah 4"><img src="/right.png" name="rght" border="0" alt="Isaiah 4" /></a></div><div id="botleft"><a href="#" onmouseover='botleft.src="/botleftgif.png"' onmouseout='botleft.src="/botleft.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botleft.png" name="botleft" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="botright"><a href="#" onmouseover='botright.src="/botrightgif.png"' onmouseout='botright.src="/botright.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botright.png" name="botright" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="bot"><iframe width="100%" height="1500" scrolling="no" src="/botmenubhchapnoad.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></div></td></tr></table></div></body></html>