The Scriptures 1998

Isaiah 3:1-6 The Scriptures 1998 (ISR98)

1. For look, the Master, יהוה of hosts, is turning aside from Yerushalayim and from Yehuḏah the stock and the store, all the supply of bread and all the supply of water;

2. the mighty man and the man of battle, the judge and the prophet, and the diviner and the elder;

3. the commander of fifty and the highly respected man, and the counsellor and the skilled craftsman, and the clever enchanter.

4. “And I shall make youths their heads, and children shall rule over them.

5. And the people shall exert pressure, man on man, man on his neighbour; the young rise up against the older, and the lightly esteemed against the highly esteemed.”

6. When a man takes hold of his brother in the house of his father, by the garment, and say, “Come, be a chief over us, and let this ruin be under your hand,”