Isaiah 3 - Douy-Rheims Bible Challoner Revision

¹ The shew of their countenance hath answered them: and they have proclaimed abroad their sin as Sodom, and they have not hid it: woe to their souls, for evils are rendered to them.

² 0 Say to the just man that it is well, for he shall eat the fruit of his doings.

³ 1 Woe to the wicked unto evil: for the reward of his hands shall be given him.

⁴ 2 As for my people, their oppressors have stripped them, and women have ruled over them. O my people, they that call thee blessed, the same deceive thee, and destroy the way of thy steps.

⁵ 3 The Lord standeth up to judge, and he standeth to judge the people.

⁶ 4 The Lord will enter into judgment with the ancients of his people, and its princes: for you have devoured the vineyard, and the spoil of the poor is in your house.

⁷ 5 Why do you consume my people, and grind the faces of the poor? saith the Lord the God of hosts.

⁸ 6 And the Lord said: Because the daughters of Sion are haughty, and have walked with stretched out necks, and wanton glances of their eyes, and made a noise as they walked with their feet and moved in a set pace:

⁹ 7 The Lord will make bald the crown of the head of the daughters of Sion, and the Lord will discover their hair.

¹⁰ 8 In that day the Lord will take away the ornaments of shoes, end little moons,

¹¹ 9 And chains and necklaces, and bracelets, and bonnets,

¹² 0 And bodkins, and ornaments of the legs, and tablets, and sweet balls, and earrings,

¹³ 1 And rings, and jewels hanging on the forehead,

¹⁴ 2 And changes of apparel, and short cloaks, and fine linen, and crisping pins,

¹⁵ 3 And looking-glasses, and lawns, and headbands, and fine veils.

¹⁶ 4 And instead of a sweet smell there shall be stench, and instead of a girdle, a cord, and instead of curled hair, baldness, and instead of a stomacher, haircloth.

¹⁷ 5 Thy fairest men also shall fall by the sword, and thy valiant ones in battle.

¹⁸ 6 And her gates shall lament and mourn, and she shall sit desolate on the ground.

¹⁹ AND in that day seven women shall take hold of one man, saying: We will eat our own bread, and wear our own apparel: only let us be called by thy name, take away our reproach.

²⁰ In that day the bud of the Lord shall be in magnificence and glory, and the fruit of the earth shall be high, and a great joy to them that shall have escaped of Israel.

²¹ And it shall come to pass, that every one that shall be left in Sion, and that shall remain in Jerusalem, shall be called holy, every one that is written in life in Jerusalem.

²² If the Lord shall wash away the filth of the daughters of Sion, and shall wash away the blood of Jerusalem out of the midst thereof, by the spirit of judgment, and by the spirit of burning.

²³ And the Lord will create upon every place of mount Sion, and where he is called upon, a cloud by day, and a smoke and the brightness of a flaming fire in the night: for over all the glory shall be a protection.

²⁴ And there shall be a tabernacle for a shade in the daytime from the heat, and for a security and covert from the whirlwind, and from rain.

²⁵ WILL sing to my beloved the canticle of my cousin concerning his vineyard. My beloved had a vineyard on a hill in a fruitful place.

²⁶ And he fenced it in, and picked the stones out of it, and planted it with the choicest vines, and built a tower in the midst thereof, and set up a winepress therein: and he looked that it should bring forth grapes, and it brought forth wild grapes.