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    Isaiah · 26 verses

    Isaiah 3

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    A cloak is enough to qualify a man for leadership over “this heap of rubble”—though the man offered the post has neither food nor clothing and refuses it at once.

    A cloak and a heap of rubblevv. 1–12

    The Lord GOD of Hosts begins by removing nearly every support from Jerusalem and Judah: food, water, warriors, judges, prophets, elders, counselors, magicians, and enchanters. Then comes the wonderfully bleak promotion scheme: mere lads and children will rule, neighbours will turn on neighbours, and a man will seize his brother because he happens to own a cloak. The proposed leader protests that he is no healer and has nothing in the house. Jerusalem has stumbled, Judah has fallen, and the people’s guides have led them away from their paths. Sodom appears here as the comparison for sin displayed without the least attempt at concealment.

    The charge and the cataloguevv. 13–24

    The LORD rises to contend, and the elders and leaders are charged with devouring the vineyard while keeping the poor’s plunder in their own houses. Then the scene turns to the daughters of Zion, whose anklets, bracelets, perfume bottles, charms, robes, purses, mirrors, tiaras, and shawls receive an inventory so thorough that judgment briefly resembles a very grim shop catalogue. The catalogue ends by reversing every luxury: fragrance becomes stench, a belt becomes a rope, styled hair becomes baldness, fine clothing becomes sackcloth, and beauty becomes shame.

    The gates sit downvv. 25–26

    The final turn is from adornment to war. The men and warriors fall by the sword, and the gates of Zion are given the posture and grief of a destitute woman: lamenting, mourning, and sitting on the ground. A city’s gates, one might think, are meant for admitting people; here they have become the last mourners left standing—or, rather, sitting.

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    1. Isa 3:1For behold, the Lord GOD of Hosts is about to remove from Jerusalem and Judah both supply and support: the whole supply of food and water,

    2. Isa 3:2the mighty man and the warrior, the judge and the prophet, the soothsayer and the elder,

    3. Isa 3:3the commander of fifty and the dignitary, the counselor, the cunning magician, and the clever enchanter.

    4. Isa 3:4“I will make mere lads their leaders, and children will rule over them.”

    5. Isa 3:5The people will oppress one another, man against man, neighbor against neighbor; the young will rise up against the old, and the base against the honorable.

    6. Isa 3:6A man will seize his brother within his father’s house: “You have a cloak—you be our leader! Take charge of this heap of rubble.”

    7. Isa 3:7On that day he will cry aloud: “I am not a healer. I have no food or clothing in my house. Do not make me leader of the people!”

    8. Isa 3:8For Jerusalem has stumbled and Judah has fallen because they spoke and acted against the LORD, defying His glorious presence.

    9. Isa 3:9The expression on their faces testifies against them, and like Sodom they flaunt their sin; they do not conceal it. Woe to them, for they have brought disaster upon themselves.

    10. Isa 3:10Tell the righteous it will be well with them, for they will enjoy the fruit of their labor.

    11. Isa 3:11Woe to the wicked; disaster is upon them! For they will be repaid with what their hands have done.

    12. Isa 3:12Youths oppress My people, and women rule over them. O My people, your guides mislead you; they turn you from your paths.

    13. Isa 3:13The LORD arises to contend; He stands to judge the people.

    14. Isa 3:14The LORD brings this charge against the elders and leaders of His people: “You have devoured the vineyard; the plunder of the poor is in your houses.

    15. Isa 3:15Why do you crush My people and grind the faces of the poor?” declares the Lord GOD of Hosts.

    16. Isa 3:16The LORD also says: “Because the daughters of Zion are haughty—walking with heads held high and wanton eyes, prancing and skipping as they go, jingling the bracelets on their ankles—

    17. Isa 3:17the Lord will bring sores on the heads of the daughters of Zion, and the LORD will make their foreheads bare.”

    18. Isa 3:18In that day the Lord will take away their finery: their anklets and headbands and crescents;

    19. Isa 3:19their pendants, bracelets, and veils;

    20. Isa 3:20their headdresses, ankle chains, and sashes; their perfume bottles and charms;

    21. Isa 3:21their signet rings and nose rings;

    22. Isa 3:22their festive robes, capes, cloaks, and purses;

    23. Isa 3:23and their mirrors, linen garments, tiaras, and shawls.

    24. Isa 3:24Instead of fragrance there will be a stench; instead of a belt, a rope; instead of styled hair, baldness; instead of fine clothing, sackcloth; instead of beauty, shame.

    25. Isa 3:25Your men will fall by the sword, and your warriors in battle.

    26. Isa 3:26And the gates of Zion will lament and mourn; destitute, she will sit on the ground.

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    Where this is echoed

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    • 10Psalms 128:1–2A song of ascents. Blessed are all who fear the LORD, who walk in His ways!
    • 10Hebrews 6:10For God is not unjust. He will not forget your work and the love you have shown for His name as you have ministered to the saints and continue to do so.
    • 10Ecclesiastes 8:12Although a sinner does evil a hundred times and still lives long, yet I also know that it will go well with those who fear God, who are reverent in His presence.
    • 10Galatians 6:7–8Do not be deceived: God is not to be mocked. Whatever a man sows, he will reap in return.
    • 10Ezekiel 18:9–19He follows My statutes and faithfully keeps My ordinances. That man is righteous; surely he will live, declares the Lord GOD.
    • 10Deuteronomy 28:1–14“Now if you faithfully obey the voice of the LORD your God and are careful to follow all His commandments I am giving you today, the LORD your God will set you high above all the nations of the earth.
    • 10Psalms 18:23–24And I have been blameless before Him and kept myself from iniquity.
    • 10Malachi 3:18So you will again distinguish between the righteous and the wicked, between those who serve God and those who do not.”
    • 10Jeremiah 15:11The LORD said: “Surely I will deliver you for a good purpose; surely I will intercede with your enemy in your time of trouble, in your time of distress.
    • 10Zephaniah 2:3Seek the LORD, all you humble of the earth who carry out His justice. Seek righteousness; seek humility. Perhaps you will be sheltered on the day of the LORD’s anger.
    • 10Isaiah 26:20–21Go, my people, enter your rooms and shut your doors behind you. Hide yourselves a little while until the wrath has passed.
    • 10Romans 2:5–11But because of your hard and unrepentant heart, you are storing up wrath against yourself for the day of wrath, when God’s righteous judgment will be revealed.
    • 11Ecclesiastes 8:13Yet because the wicked do not fear God, it will not go well with them, and their days will not lengthen like a shadow.
    • 12Isaiah 3:4“I will make mere lads their leaders, and children will rule over them.”
    • 16Isaiah 32:9–11Stand up, you complacent women; listen to me. Give ear to my word, you overconfident daughters.
    • 4Ecclesiastes 10:16Woe to you, O land whose king is a youth, and whose princes feast in the morning.

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