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  • 1. For, lo, the Lord, Jehovah of Hosts, Is turning aside from Jerusalem, And from Judah, stay and staff, Every stay of bread, and every stay of water.
  • 2. Hero and man of war, judge and prophet, And diviner and elder,
  • 3. Head of fifty, and accepted of faces, And counsellor, and the wise of artificers, And the intelligent of charmers.
  • 4. And I have made youths their heads, And sucklings rule over them.
  • 5. And the people hath exacted -- man upon man, Even a man on his neighbour, Enlarge themselves do the youths against the aged, And the lightly esteemed against the honoured.
  • 6. When one layeth hold on his brother, `Of' the house of his father, `by' the garment, `Come, a ruler thou art to us, And this ruin `is' under thy hand.'
  • 7. He lifteth up, in that day, saying: `I am not a binder up, And in my house is neither bread nor garment, Ye do not make me a ruler of the people.'
  • 8. For stumbled hath Jerusalem, and Judah hath fallen, For their tongue and their doings `are' against Jehovah, To provoke the eyes of His glory.
  • 9. The appearance of their faces witnessed against them, And their sin, as Sodom, they declared, They have not hidden! Wo to their soul, For they have done to themselves evil.
  • 10. Say ye to the righteous, that `it is' good, Because the fruit of their doings they eat.
  • 11. Wo to the wicked -- evil, Because the deed of his hand is done to him.
  • 12. My people -- its exactors `are' sucklings, And women have ruled over it. My people -- thy eulogists are causing to err, And the way of thy paths swallowed up.
  • 13. Jehovah hath stood up to plead, And He is standing to judge the peoples.
  • 14. Jehovah into judgment doth enter With elders of His people, and its heads: `And ye, ye have consumed the vineyard, Plunder of the poor `is' in your houses.
  • 15. What -- to you? ye bruise My people, And the faces of the poor ye grind.' An affirmation of the Lord, Jehovah of Hosts, And Jehovah saith:
  • 16. `Because that daughters of Zion have been haughty, And they walk stretching out the neck, And deceiving `with' the eyes, Walking and mincing they go, And with their feet they make a tinkling,
  • 17. The Lord also hath scabbed The crown of the head of daughters of Zion, And Jehovah their simplicity exposeth.
  • 18. In that day doth the Lord turn aside The beauty of the tinkling ornaments, And of the embroidered works, And of the round tires like moons,
  • 19. Of the drops, and the bracelets, and the mufflers,
  • 20. Of the bonnets, and the ornaments of the legs, And of the bands, And of the perfume boxes, and the amulets,
  • 21. Of the seals, and of the nose-rings,
  • 22. Of the costly apparel, and of the mantles, And of the coverings, and of the purses,
  • 23. Of the mirrors, and of the linen garments, And of the hoods, and of the vails,
  • 24. And it hath been, instead of spice is muck, And instead of a girdle, a rope, And instead of curled work, baldness, And instead of a stomacher a girdle of sackcloth.
  • 25. For instead of glory, thy men by sword do fall, And thy might in battle.
  • 26. And lamented and mourned have her openings, Yea, she hath been emptied, on the earth she sitteth!