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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /><meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1"><title>Isaiah 3 Smith's Literal Translation</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="/chapnew2.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="../spec.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="/print.css" type="text/css" media="Print" /></head><body><div id="fx"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx2"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="30" scrolling="no" src="../cmenus/isaiah/3.htm" align="left" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div><div id="blnk"></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable"><tr><td><div id="fx5"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx6"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="245" scrolling="no" src="../topmenuchap/isaiah/3-1.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable3"><tr><td><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center" id="announce"><tr><td><div id="l1"><div id="breadcrumbs"><a href="http://biblehub.com">Bible</a> > <a href="../">SLT</a> > Isaiah 3</div><div id="anc"><iframe src="/anc.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></div><div id="anc2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/anc2.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div></td></tr></table><div id="movebox2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="../menu.htm" width="100%" height="48" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table><table border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div id="topheading"><a href="../isaiah/2.htm" title="Isaiah 2">◄</a> Isaiah 3 <a href="../isaiah/4.htm" title="Isaiah 4">►</a></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheading"><table width="100%"><tr><td width="99%" valign="top">Smith's Literal Translation</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/parallel/isaiah/3-1.htm" style="color:#001320" title="Parallel Verses"> Par ▾ </a></tr></table></div><div class="chap"><A name="2"></a><p class="hdg">Judgment on Jerusalem and Judah<p><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/3-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>For behold, the Lord Jehovah of armies taking away from Jerusalem and from Judah the stay, and the stay, all the stay of bread, and all the stay of water.<p> <A name="3"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/3-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>The strong one and the man of war, the judge and the prophet, and the divines, and the old man,<p> <A name="4"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/3-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>The captain of fifty and the elevated of face, and the counselor, and the wise of the artificers, and the intelligent one enchanting.<p> <A name="5"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/3-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>And I gave boys their chiefs, and the petulant shall rule over them.<p> <A name="6"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/3-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>And the people were pressed, man by man, and a man by his neighbor: the boy shall enlarge himself against the old man and the despised against the honorable.<p> <A name="7"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/3-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>For a man shall seize upon his brother of the house of his father, A garment to thee, thou shalt be chief to us, this ruin under thy hand:<p> <A name="8"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/3-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>He shall lift up in that day, saying, I will not be binding up; and in my house no bread and no garment: thou shalt not set me a chief of the people.<p> <A name="9"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/3-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>For Jerusalem was weak, and Judah fell: for their tongues and their doings are against Jehovah to embitter the eyes of his glory.<p> <A name="10"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/3-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>The withdrawing of their face answered against them; and they announced their sins as Sodom, and they covered not. Wo to their soul! for they rewarded evil to themselves.<p> <A name="11"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/3-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>Say to the just, that it is good that they shall eat the fruit of their doings.<p> <A name="12"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/3-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>Wo to the unjust! evil! for the reward of his hands shall be done to him.<p> <A name="13"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/3-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>My people, their tyrants from children, and women ruled over them. My people, they calling thee happy, causing to err; they destroyed the way of thy paths.<p> <A name="14"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/3-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>Jehovah stood up to contend and he stood to judge the peoples.<p> <A name="15"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/3-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>Jehovah will go into judgment with the old men of his people and his chiefs: and ye burnt up the vineyard; the spoil of the poor is in your houses.<p> <A name="16"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/3-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>Why will ye crush my people and grind the faces of the poor? says the Lord Jehovah of armies.<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>And Jehovah will say, Because the daughters of Zion were lifted up, and they will go extending the neck and ogling their eyes, going and tripping their going, and binding back their feet:<p> <A name="18"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/3-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>And Jehovah made bald the crown of the daughters of Zion, and Jehovah opened the redundance.<p> <A name="19"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/3-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>In that day Jehovah will turn away the ornament of the ankle bands, and the inter-weavings, and the crescents, <A name="20"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/3-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>The drops, and the chains, and the veils, <A name="21"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/3-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>The head-dresses and the step chains, and the girdles, and the houses of the soul, and the amulets. <A name="22"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/3-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>The signet rings and the rings of the nose. <A name="23"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/3-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>The costly garments and the cloaks, and the mantles, and the caskets. <A name="24"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/3-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>The mirrors and the shirts and the turbans and the veils.<p> <A name="25"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/3-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span>And it was instead of a sweet smell there shall be rottenness, and instead of a girdle, a rope, and instead of turned work, baldness, and instead of a variegated garment, a girding of sackcloth a brand instead of beauty.<p> <A name="26"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/3-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span>Thy men shall fall by the sword, and thy strength in the war.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/3-26.htm"><b>26</b></a></span>And her entrances sighed and mourned; and being clean, she shall sit upon the earth.<p><br /></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">The Holy Bible Containing the Old and New Testaments; Translated Literally From The Original Tongues by Julia E. 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