Isaiah 3:8
For Jerusalem is ruined, and Judah is fallen: because their tongue and their doings are against the LORD, to provoke the eyes of his glory. For Jerusalem is ruined, and Judah is fallen: because their tongue and their doings are against the LORD, to provoke the eyes of his glory.
Jerusalem is ruined and Judah is fallen because their tongue and their doings are against the LORD, to provoke the eyes of His glory. That ruin came through wickedness in high places and continued transgression, with the nation's sinful rulers and leaders helping to bring about this condition. Under Ahaz that leadership led the people into idolatry and even child sacrifice. Continued transgression made the rulers as weak as children. Wickedness among the leaders left Judah weak in position among the nations of the earth.
In Ahaz's time this judgment belonged to a period of great peril, when the forces of evil were multiplying and only a small remnant remained faithful. During Ahaz's reign it belonged to prophetic warnings calling erring Israel to return to God, warnings that could bear fruit to His glory. Its surrounding context applies the judgment to open, unhidden sin and declares that people suffer the consequences of their own deeds, with the righteous receiving the fruit of their conduct and the wicked receiving its evil reward. The prophecy is applied to the last days, with its reproofs directed to the daughters of Zion who cared only about appearance and display.