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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 Lamsa Bible</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> <script async src="https://www.googletagmanager.com/gtag/js?id=G-LR4HSKRP2H"></script> <script> window.dataLayer = window.dataLayer || []; function gtag(){dataLayer.push(arguments);} gtag('js', new Date()); gtag('config', 'G-LR4HSKRP2H'); </script><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="../">Lamsa</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">Lamsa Bible</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"><span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/isaiah/3-1.htm#aramaic"><b>1</b></a></span>FOR, behold, the LORD of hosts does take away from Jerusalem and from Judah the stay and the staff, the whole stay of bread, and the whole stay of water,<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/isaiah/3-2.htm#aramaic"><b>2</b></a></span>The mighty man and the man of war, the judge and the prophet and the diviner and the elder,<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/isaiah/3-3.htm#aramaic"><b>3</b></a></span>The captain of fifty and the honorable man and the counsellor and the skilful carpenter and the expert counsellor.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/isaiah/3-4.htm#aramaic"><b>4</b></a></span>And I will appoint young men to be their princes, and mockers shall rule over them.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/isaiah/3-5.htm#aramaic"><b>5</b></a></span>And the people shall oppress one another, every one his neighbor; and the young men shall provoke the elders, and the base men the honorable.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/isaiah/3-6.htm#aramaic"><b>6</b></a></span>When a man shall take hold of his brother in the house of his father, and say to him, You have clothing, be our ruler, and govern this ruin;<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/isaiah/3-7.htm#aramaic"><b>7</b></a></span>In that day he shall answer, and say, I will not be a leader; for in my house is neither bread nor clothing; make me not a ruler over the people.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/isaiah/3-8.htm#aramaic"><b>8</b></a></span>For Jerusalem has stumbled, and Judah has fallen; because their tongue and their doings are against the LORD, provoking God in the majesty of his glory.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/isaiah/3-9.htm#aramaic"><b>9</b></a></span>Their hypocrisy witnesses against them; and they declare their sins like Sodom, they do not hide them. Woe to their soul! for they have wrought evil to themselves.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/isaiah/3-10.htm#aramaic"><b>10</b></a></span>Say to the righteous that it shall be well with them; for they shall eat the fruit of their doings.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/isaiah/3-11.htm#aramaic"><b>11</b></a></span>Woe to the wicked! it shall be ill with him, for the reward of his hands shall be given him.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/isaiah/3-12.htm#aramaic"><b>12</b></a></span>The princes shall pluck my people out, and women shall rule over them. O my people, your leaders have caused you to err, and disturbed the way of your paths.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/isaiah/3-13.htm#aramaic"><b>13</b></a></span>The LORD stands up to plead, and stands to judge his people.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/isaiah/3-14.htm#aramaic"><b>14</b></a></span>The LORD will enter into judgment with the elders of his people, and the princes thereof: for you have burned the vineyard; the spoil of the poor is in your houses.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/isaiah/3-15.htm#aramaic"><b>15</b></a></span>Why did you sting my people, and shame the faces of the poor? says the LORD of hosts.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/isaiah/3-16.htm#aramaic"><b>16</b></a></span>Because the daughters of Zion have become haughty, and walk with stretched forth necks, and wanton eyes, making a tinkling with their feet, and thus provoking the LORD;<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/isaiah/3-17.htm#aramaic"><b>17</b></a></span>Therefore the LORD will bring low the heads of the daughters of Zion, and the LORD shall lay bare their secret parts.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/isaiah/3-18.htm#aramaic"><b>18</b></a></span>In that day the LORD will take away the beauty of their apparel; <span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/isaiah/3-19.htm#aramaic"><b>19</b></a></span>And their adornments and their necklaces and the braids of their hair and their chains and their bonnets and their veils, <span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/isaiah/3-20.htm#aramaic"><b>20</b></a></span>The paint of their faces, their earrings and their strings of beads <span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/isaiah/3-21.htm#aramaic"><b>21</b></a></span>And the ornaments of their legs and their bracelets and nose rings, <span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/isaiah/3-22.htm#aramaic"><b>22</b></a></span>The garments of varied colors and the mantles and the fine linens, the purple garments, <span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/isaiah/3-23.htm#aramaic"><b>23</b></a></span>The long outer garments, the purple robes, the scarlet robes, the wardrobe of all their adornments.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/isaiah/3-24.htm#aramaic"><b>24</b></a></span>And it shall come to pass, that instead of a sweet smell there shall be a stink; and instead of an ornamental girdle, a worker's apron; and instead of curled hair, baldness; and instead of purple robes, a girding of sackcloth; for their beauty shall be destroyed.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/isaiah/3-25.htm#aramaic"><b>25</b></a></span>Your mighty men shall fall by the sword, and your valiant men in the battle.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/isaiah/3-26.htm#aramaic"><b>26</b></a></span>And her gates shall lament and mourn; and her victory shall turn to defeat.<p><br /></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">Holy Bible From The Ancient Eastern Texts: Aramaic Of The Peshitta by George M. 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