Yesaya 3:4-8

3:4 The Lord says,¹ “I will make youths their officials;

malicious young men² will rule over them.

3:5 The people will treat each other harshly;

men will oppose each other;

neighbors will fight.³

Youths will proudly defy the elderly

and riffraff will challenge those who were once respected.⁴

3:6 Indeed, a man will grab his brother

right in his father’s house⁵ and say,⁶

‘You own a coat –

you be our leader!

This heap of ruins will be under your control.’⁷

3:7 At that time⁸ the brother will shout,⁹

‘I am no doctor,¹⁰

I have no food or coat in my house;

don’t make me a leader of the people!’”

3:8 Jerusalem certainly stumbles,

Judah falls,

for their words and their actions offend the Lord;¹¹

they rebel against his royal authority.¹²

Yesaya 49:21

49:21 Then you will think to yourself,¹³

‘Who bore these children for me?

I was bereaved and barren,

dismissed and divorced.¹⁴

Who raised these children?

Look, I was left all alone;

where did these children come from?’”

88:18 You cause my friends and neighbors to keep their distance;¹⁵

those who know me leave me alone in the darkness.¹⁶

142:4 Look to the right and see!

No one cares about me.¹⁷

I have nowhere to run;¹⁸

no one is concerned about my life.¹⁹

9:36 When²⁰ he saw the crowds, he had compassion on them because they were bewildered and helpless,²¹ like sheep without a shepherd.

15:14 Leave them! They are blind guides.²² If someone who is blind leads another who is blind,²³ both will fall into a pit.”