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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 Literal Standard Version</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="../">LSV</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">Literal Standard Version</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/parallel/isaiah/3-1.htm#aramaic" style="color:#001320" title="Parallel Verses"> Par ▾ </a></tr></table></div><div class="chap"><A name="2"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/3-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>For behold, the Lord, YHWH of Hosts, "" Is turning aside from Jerusalem and from Judah "" [Both] stay and staff: Every stay of bread and every stay of water;<p> <A name="3"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/3-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>Mighty and man of war, judge and prophet, "" And diviner and elderly,<p> <A name="4"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/3-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>Head of fifty, and accepted of faces, "" And counselor, and wise craftsmen, "" And discerning charmer.<p> <A name="5"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/3-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>And I have made youths their heads, "" And sucklings 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 has exacted—man on man, "" Even a man on his neighbor, "" The youths enlarge themselves against the aged, "" And the lightly esteemed against the honored.<p> <A name="7"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/3-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>When one lays hold on his brother, "" Of the house of his father, [by] the garment, “Come, you are a ruler to us, "" And this ruin [is] under your hand.”<p> <A name="8"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/3-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>He lifts up, in that day, saying, “I am not a binder up, "" And in my house is neither bread nor garment, "" You do not make me a ruler of the people.”<p> <A name="9"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/3-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>For Jerusalem has stumbled, and Judah has fallen, "" For their tongue and their doings [are] against YHWH, "" To provoke 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 appearance of their faces witnessed against them, "" And their sin, as Sodom, they declared, "" They have not hidden! Woe to their soul, "" For they have done 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 righteous that [it is] good, "" Because they 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>Woe to the wicked—evil, "" Because the deed of his hand is done to him.<p> <A name="13"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/3-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>My people—its exactors [are] sucklings, "" And women have ruled over it. My people—your eulogists are causing to err, "" And the way of your paths swallowed up.<p> <A name="14"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/3-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>YHWH has stood up to plead, "" And He is standing to judge the peoples.<p> <A name="15"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/3-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>YHWH enters into judgment "" With [the] elderly of His people, and its heads: “And you, you have consumed the vineyard, "" Plunder 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? Why do you [do this]? You bruise My people, "" And you grind the faces of the poor.” A declaration of the Lord, YHWH of Hosts, "" And YHWH says:<p> <A name="17"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/3-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>“Because that daughters of Zion have been haughty, "" And they walk stretching out the neck, "" And deceiving [with] the eyes, "" They go walking and mincing, "" And they make a jingling with their feet,<p> <A name="18"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/3-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>The Lord has also scabbed "" The crown of the head of daughters of Zion, "" And YHWH exposes their simplicity.<p> <A name="19"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/3-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>In that day the Lord turns aside "" The beauty of the jingling ornaments, "" And of the embroidered works, "" And of the crescents, <A name="20"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/3-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>Of the pendants, and the bracelets, and the veils, <A name="21"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/3-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>Of the headdresses, and the ornaments of the legs, "" And of the bands, "" And of the perfume boxes, and the amulets, <A name="22"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/3-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>Of the seals, and of the nose-rings, <A name="23"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/3-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>Of the costly apparel, and of the mantles, "" And of the coverings, and of the purses, <A name="24"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/3-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>Of the mirrors, and of the linen garments, "" And of the hoods, and of the veils,<p> <A name="25"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/3-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span>And it has been, instead of spice is muck, "" And instead of a girdle, a rope, "" And instead of curled work, baldness, "" And instead of a stomacher a girdle of sackcloth.<p> <A name="26"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/3-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span>For instead of glory, your men fall by sword, "" And your might in battle.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/3-26.htm"><b>26</b></a></span>And her openings have lamented and mourned, "" Indeed, she has been emptied, she sits on the earth!” <p><br /></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">Literal Standard Version<br>Copyright © 2022 by Covenant Press. 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