Isaiah 3: 1-15

Because their tongue and their doings are against the LORD,

To provoke the eyes of His glory.

9. The show of their countenance doth witness against them;

And they declare their sin as Sodom, they hide it not.

Woe unto their soul!

For they have wrought evil unto themselves.

3:7 In my house is neither bread nor a mantle. Kimchi says that this is the proof of poverty, that, even in the house of the respectable, there is a lack of decent clothing.

3:8 Provoke the eyes of His glory. Ibn Ezra: They provoke God publicly.

3:9 The show of their countenance. The Hebrew literally is "the recognition of their countenance." Therefore Rashi says that the meaning of the verse is connected with Deuteronomy 16: 19, which in our translation says, "Thou shalt not respect persons," but in Hebrew is "Thou shalt not recognize faces in judgment." Therefore Rashi says the prophet means that their perversion of justice, their recognizing of faces, testifies against them. Kimchi connects this phrase with "They declare their sin" in the next line and says that the verse means, "Their face betrays their sin and their mouth openly declares it." (So, too, Ibn Ezra, Malbim, and Krauss.)

10. Say ye of the righteous, that it shall be well with him; 

For they shall eat the fruit of their doings.

11. Woe unto the wicked! it shall be ill with him;

For the work of his hands shall be done to him.

12. As for My people, a babe is their master,

And women rule over them.

 My people, they that lead thee cause thee to err,

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