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Book of Isaiah, Chapter 3

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Chapter 3 of Isaiah—New World Translation (NWT)

  1. ¶ For, look! the [true] Lord,[a]1 Jehovah of armies, is removing from Jerusalem2 and from Judah support and stay, the whole support of bread and the whole support of water,3
  2. mighty man and warrior,[b] judge and prophet,4 and practicer of divination and elderly man,5
  3. chief of fifty6 and highly respected man[c] and counselor and expert in magical arts, and the skilled charmer.[d]7
  4. And I shall certainly make boys their princes, and mere arbitrary power[e] will rule over them.8
  5. And the people will actually tyrannize one over the other, even each one over his fellowman.9 They will storm, the boy against the old man,10 and the lightly esteemed one against the one to be honored.11
  6. For each one will lay hold of his brother in the house of his father, [saying:] “You have a mantle. A dictator12 you ought to become to us, and this overthrown mass should be under your hand.”
  7. He will raise [his voice] in that day, saying: “I shall not become a wound dresser; and in my house there is neither bread nor a mantle. YOU men must not set me as dictator over the people.”
  8. ¶ For Jerusalem has stumbled, and Judah itself has fallen,13 because their tongue and their dealings are against Jehovah,14 in behaving rebelliously in the eyes of his glory.15
  9. The very expression of their faces[f] actually testifies against them,16 and of their sin like that of Sodʹom they do tell.17 They have not hidden [it]. Woe to their soul! For they have dealt out to themselves calamity.18
  10. ¶ Say, YOU men, that it [will be] well with the righteous one,19 for they will eat the very fruitage of their dealings.20
  11. Woe to the wicked one!—Calamity; for the treatment [rendered] by his own hands will be rendered to him!21
  12. As for my people, its task assigners[g] are dealing severely,[h] and mere women actually rule over it.22 O my people, those leading you on are causing [you] to wander,23 and the way of your paths they have confused.24
  13. ¶ Jehovah is stationing himself to contend and is standing up to pass sentence upon peoples.25
  14. Jehovah himself will enter into judgment with the elderly ones of his people and its princes.26
    ¶ “And YOU yourselves have burned down the vineyard. What was taken by robbery from the afflicted one is in YOUR houses.27
  15. What do YOU men mean in that YOU crush my people, and that YOU grind the very faces of the afflicted ones?”28 is the utterance of the Sovereign Lord, Jehovah of armies.
  16. ¶ And Jehovah says: “For the reason that the daughters of Zion have become haughty and they walk with their throats stretched forth and ogling with their eyes, they go walking with tripping steps, and with their feet they make a tinkling sound,[i]29
  17. Jehovah[j] also will actually make the crown of the head of the daughters of Zion scabby,30 and Jehovah himself will lay their very forehead bare.31
  18. In that day Jehovah[k] will take away the beauty of the bangles[l] and the headbands[m] and the moon-shaped ornaments,[n]32
  19. the eardrops and the bracelets and the veils,33
  20. the headdresses and the step chains and the breastbands[o]34 and the ‘houses of the soul’[p] and the ornamental humming shells,[q]35
  21. the finger rings and the nose rings,36
  22. the robes of state and the overtunics and the cloaks and the purses,
  23. and the hand mirrors37 and the undergarments and the turbans38 and the large veils.39
  24. ¶ “And it must occur that instead of balsam oil40 there will come to be merely a musty smell; and instead of a belt, a rope; and instead of an artistic hair arrangement, baldness;41 and instead of a rich garment, a girding of sackcloth;42 a brand mark43 instead of prettiness.
  25. By the sword your[r] own men will fall, and your mightiness[s] by war.44
  26. And her entrances will have to mourn45 and express sorrow, and she will certainly be cleaned out. She will sit down on the very earth.”46

FOOTNOTES

  1. ^ See 1:24 ftn.
  2. ^ Lit., “and man of war.” Heb., weʼishʹ mil·cha·mahʹ.
  3. ^ Lit., “one lifted up as to face.”
  4. ^ Or, “one skilled at serpent-charming.” See App 7A.
  5. ^ “Arbitrary power.” Or, “caprices.”
  6. ^ Or, “Just a look at their faces”; or, “Just their showing regard for faces.”
  7. ^ Or, “its government.”
  8. ^ “Children are their task assigners,” by a correction of M.
  9. ^ Or, “on their feet they shake bangles.”
  10. ^ One of 134 scribal changes from YHWH to ʼAdho·naiʹ. See App 1B.
  11. ^ See vs 17 ftn.
  12. ^ Or, “anklets.”
  13. ^ Lit., “little suns.”
  14. ^ Or, “little moons.”
  15. ^ Or, “the sashes.”
  16. ^ Probably perfume receptacles.
  17. ^ Or, “the charms.”
  18. ^ “Your,” fem. sing., referring to Zion, or Jerusalem.
  19. ^ “Mighty (strong) ones,” LXXSyVg.

REFERENCES

  1. ^ Is 37:20; 44:6; Je 10:10
  2. ^ 2Ki 23:27; 2Ch 36:19
  3. ^ Le 26:26; De 28:51; Je 37:21; Eze 4:16
  4. ^ Eze 13:9
  5. ^ 2Ki 24:14; Ps 74:9; La 5:12
  6. ^ Ex 18:21; De 1:15; 1Sa 8:12
  7. ^ De 18:10; Ps 58:5; Is 8:19
  8. ^ Jg 21:25; Ec 10:16
  9. ^ Is 9:19; Je 9:5; Mc 3:3; Ml 3:5
  10. ^ Jb 30:1
  11. ^ Le 19:32; 2Sa 16:5; Pr 16:31; Ec 10:7; Mr 14:65
  12. ^ Is 1:10; 22:3; Jn 6:15
  13. ^ 2Ch 28:5, 18; 33:11; Je 26:18; Mc 3:12
  14. ^ Ps 73:8; Eze 9:9; Ml 3:13; Mt 12:36; Jd 15
  15. ^ 2Ch 33:6; Hab 1:13; Ml 2:2; 1Co 10:22
  16. ^ Ps 73:6; Pr 30:13; 1Ti 5:24
  17. ^ Ge 18:20; Is 1:10; Jd 7
  18. ^ La 3:64; Ho 13:9
  19. ^ Ps 18:24; 128:1; Ec 8:12; Zp 2:3; Ro 2:10
  20. ^ Ps 128:2; Ga 6:7; Heb 6:10
  21. ^ Ps 28:4; 62:12; 2Co 5:10; 2Ti 4:14; Jm 2:13
  22. ^ 2Ki 11:1; Na 3:13; 1Ti 2:12
  23. ^ Is 9:16
  24. ^ Je 5:31; Hab 1:4; Mt 15:14; 23:15
  25. ^ Ps 12:5; Pr 22:23; Ho 4:1; Mc 6:2
  26. ^ Je 12:10; Lu 12:48; Jm 3:1
  27. ^ Is 1:23; Je 5:27; Am 4:1; Mc 2:2; 6:10
  28. ^ Is 58:4; Am 2:6; 8:4; Mc 3:2
  29. ^ De 8:14; Is 32:9; Eze 16:49
  30. ^ De 28:27
  31. ^ Is 3:24; 1Co 11:6
  32. ^ Jg 8:26
  33. ^ Ge 24:22; Ex 32:2; Eze 16:11; Ho 2:13
  34. ^ Je 2:32
  35. ^ Ex 35:22; Nu 31:50
  36. ^ Ge 24:22
  37. ^ Ex 38:8
  38. ^ Le 16:4
  39. ^ Ge 38:14; Is 47:2
  40. ^ Es 2:12
  41. ^ Is 22:12; Eze 7:18; Mc 1:16
  42. ^ Je 4:8; La 2:10; Jl 1:8; Am 8:10
  43. ^ Ga 6:17
  44. ^ 2Ch 29:9; Je 11:22; La 2:21; Am 9:10
  45. ^ Je 14:2; La 1:4
  46. ^ Jb 2:13; Is 47:1; La 2:10

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Comments

  1. David yakubuDavid yakubu
    Oct 29, 2022 08:05 GMT

    When i do read some comments and seeing that its the same people that are supposed to be called believers but are talking ill of other denominations, it hurts. Let us all remember that We should judge not

    1. jonas smithjonas smith
      Apr 23, 2023 02:57 GMT

      The bible tells us to test the spirits. Satan disguises himself as angel of light. So yes some denomination are not teaching the truth. You are responsible for judging which ones are not. You have to judge the truth at all times. this is what the bible teaches

  2. THTH
    Apr 7, 2021 00:20 GMT

    The NWT is a very good translation. Dr. Jason David BeDuhn PhD attests to that in his book Truth in Translation. drive.google.com/...5p16melHzg8/view

    1. James LernerJames Lerner
      Jul 20, 2024 09:48 GMT

      The NWT is Satanic filth to its very core.

      The JW Cult is Satanic to its very core.

      Praise Yahweh I will never be a victim of JW brainwashing. If I burn in Hell for eternity or I am ultimately annihilated so be it

      May Yahweh's curse rest on the Watchtower Society and its Satanic leadership

    2. jim mcleodjim mcleod
      Aug 22, 2021 06:16 GMT

      NWT is a false translation that takes away from the deity of Jesus !

  3. SlightlyChaoticSlightlyChaotic
    Jan 30, 2021 16:33 GMT

    Thank you for taking the time to provide this service. I like seeing the NASB on your web page in the same format as I read on paper. On other sites, the text area is smaller, and so I have to keep scrolling down to read and sometimes I lose the context. So I really appreciate the format.

    As far as the NWT, you are certainly free to do whatever you think best with your own web pages. I'd suggest that you make a note anytime you have a translation that is associated with only one denomination or church, for example:
    New World Translation (Jehovah's Witness version).

    In Jesus' parable of the wheat and the tares. the main idea seems to be that you can't easily distinguish between God's people and not-God's people on this earth, so our Lord's response is to wait until they are shown to be the kind of people they are inside. But the NWT seems like false teaching to me. So I think the warning passages from Jesus' apostles are more applicable, as in 2 Peter 3:15-16, when he talks about Paul's writings:
    "There are some things in them that are hard to understand, which the ignorant and unstable twist to their own destruction, as they do the other Scriptures."
    And we also have the positive exhortations, as in 2 Timothy 2:15:
    "Do your best to present yourself to God as one approved, a worker who has no need to be ashamed, rightly handling the word of truth."

    1. BroderickBroderick
      Jan 31, 2021 00:57 GMT

      Your suggestion regarding the denominational flagging is duly noted. But I can’t help but wonder, wouldn’t a Catholic also want “Protestant versions” marked as well?

      As for the parable, I’m pretty sure the slaves were convinced in their own minds that they could tell the tares from the wheat. After all, aren’t they the ones who identified the problem in the first place? But the master obviously thought otherwise.

      Furthermore, even at the time when Jesus himself was walking the earth, not everybody who claimed fellowship actually followed him causing John to inquire at Mark 9:39, “Teacher, we saw someone casting out demons in Your name, and we tried to prevent him because he was not following us.” But Jesus said, “Do not hinder him . . . for he who is not against us is for us.”

  4. Joshua HarderJoshua Harder
    Dec 11, 2020 17:48 GMT

    Hello, question.. why have you included the NWT with other legitimate bible translations? Or why have you not atleast included a warning to readers? Don't you fear that someone could be influenced by the Watchtower's intentional heresies? Thank you.

    1. KevinKevin
      Jul 11, 2021 17:45 GMT

      en.m.wikipedia.org/..._Holy_Scriptures

      See the section critical review

    2. ChrisChris
      Jan 8, 2021 07:15 GMT

      Please site these intentional heresies. I am well versed in the watch tower outline and agree they are in many ways incorrect but i also bet i can point many out from EVERY established or main denomination. There is much to learn from them all as one who drinks milk?

      Judge not lest ye be judged, that is not to pass judgement on you either brother.

      I debate with scripture. I don't hold it to be true that Michael is Y'Shua HaMeshiach but I also firmly hold it to be true that our G-d and Heavenly Father are not the word encarnate and only begotten son.

      I love not seeing "lord" which i relate to baal. I feel the catholic church is a satanic establishment and I am aware a freemason started the hovies but there are evil in high places and our fight is also with principalities.

      What i'm saying is that in my darkest hours, those two were some of if not the only ones who would bring a Bible and eucharist and pray with me.

      We all fall short of the glory of G-d.

      Don't forget the NWT was recognized as the most accurate translation on Jeopardy.

      Lastly, this is different I noted than the NWT i have read and am very familiar with. Pull up the watchtower page and compare. I truly look forward to getting this one!

  5. julietjuliet
    Aug 17, 2022 09:36 GMT

    the sky is blue

  6. mercymercy
    Aug 12, 2022 21:23 GMT

    i am Mercy, the sky is blue what else do you need

    1. mercymercy
      Aug 12, 2022 21:25 GMT

      i am so sorry, it was a big mistake

  7. God is able to do all thingsGod is able to do all things
    May 17, 2021 17:59 GMT

    Jesus how much love calling yo name

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