Isaiah 3:7
Good News Translation
But he will answer, "Not me! I can't help you. I don't have any food or clothes either. Don't make me your leader!"

New Revised Standard Version
But the other will cry out on that day, saying, “I will not be a healer; in my house there is neither bread nor cloak; you shall not make me leader of the people.”

Contemporary English Version
But the answer will be, "I can't do you any good. Don't make me your leader. There's no food or clothing left in my house."

New American Bible
He will cry out in that day: “I cannot be a healer, when there is neither bread nor clothing in my own house! You will not make me a ruler of the people!”

Douay-Rheims Bible
In that day he shall answer, saying: I am no healer, and in my house there is no bread, nor clothing: make me not ruler of the people.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

In that day he shall answer, saying: I am no healer, and in my house there is no bread, nor clothing: make me not ruler of the people.

swear.

Genesis 14:22 And he answered him: I lift up my hand to the Lord God the most high, the possessor of heaven and earth,

Deuteronomy 32:40 I will lift up my hand to heaven, and I will say: I live for ever.

Revelation 10:5,6 And the angel whom I saw standing upon the sea and upon the earth lifted up his hand to heaven. . . .

healer.

Isaiah 58:12 And the places that have been desolate for ages shall be built in thee: thou shalt raise up the foundation of generation and generation: and thou shalt be called the repairer of the fences, turning the paths into rest.

Jeremiah 14:19 Hast thou utterly cast away Juda, or hath thy soul abhorred Sion? why then hast thou struck us, so that there is no healing for us? we have looked for peace, and there is no good: and for the time of healing, and behold trouble.

Lamentations 2:13 Mem. To what shall I compare thee? or to what shall I liken thee, O daughter of Jerusalem? to what shall I equal thee, that I may comfort thee, O virgin daughter of Sion? for great as the sea is thy destruction: who shall heal thee?

Hosea 5:13 And Ephraim saw his sickness, and Juda his band: and Ephraim went to the Assyrian, and sent to the avenging king: and he shall not be able to heal you, neither shall he be able to take off the band from you.

Hosea 6:1 In their affliction they will rise early to me: Come, and let us return to the Lord.

neither bread.

1 Kings 4:22,23 And the provision of Solomon, for each day, was thirty measures of fine flour, and threescore measures of meal; . . .

Nehemiah 5:17,18 The Jews also and the magistrates to the number of one hundred and fifty men, were at my table, besides them that came to us from among the nations that were round about us. . . .

contrast this with Christ

Isaiah 59:16 And he saw that there is not a man: and he stood astonished, because there is none to oppose himself: and his own arm brought salvation to him, and his own justice supported him.

Context
A Judgment Against Judah
6For a man shall take hold of his brother, one of the house of his father, saying: Thou hast a garment, be thou our ruler, and let this ruin be under thy hand. 7In that day he shall answer, saying: I am no healer, and in my house there is no bread, nor clothing: make me not ruler of the people.8For Jerusalem is ruined, and Juda is fallen: because their tongue, and their devices are against the Lord, to provoke the eyes of his majesty.…
Cross References
Ezekiel 34:4
The weak you have not strengthened, and that which was sick you have not healed, that which was broken you have not bound up, and that which was driven away you have not brought again, neither have you sought that which was lost: but you ruled over them with rigour, and with a high hand.

Hosea 5:13
And Ephraim saw his sickness, and Juda his band: and Ephraim went to the Assyrian, and sent to the avenging king: and he shall not be able to heal you, neither shall he be able to take off the band from you.

Joel 1:16
Is not your food cut off before your eyes, joy and gladness from the house of our God?

Isaiah 3:6
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