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¹ For lo! the Lord, Yahweh of hosts, removing from Jerusalem and from Judah, The stay and staff, - The whole stay of bread, And the whole stay of water:² Man of might and man of war, - Judge and prophet And diviner and elder;³ Captain of fifty, and favourite; And counsellor and skilled artificer, And master of magical formulas;⁴ And I will appoint boys to be their princes, - And, petulant children, shall rule over them,⁵ And the people will, tyrannise, Every man over his fellow-man, And every man over his friend, - And they will rage The boy against, the elder, And the despised, against, the honourable,⁶ When a man shall lay hold, on his brother of the house of his father, saying - Clothing, hast thou, Become thou our, ruler, This downfall, be under thy hand,⁷ He will swear, in that day, saying - I will take no control, When in mine own house, is neither food nor clothing, - Ye must not set me for a ruler of people!⁸ For stumbled bath Jerusalem, and, Judah, hath fallen, - Because, their tongue and their doings, are against Yahweh, Provoking his glorious presence,

⁹ The show of their face, hath answered against them, And their sin - like Sodom, have they told, they have not concealed it. Alas for their souls! For they have requited to themselves, calamity.¹⁰ Say ye to the righteous It is well! For the fruit of their doings, shall they eat:¹¹ Alas! for the lawless, it is ill, For what his own hand hath matured, shall he done to him.¹² My people! children, are their tyrants, And, women, rule over them, - My people! they who should lead thee forward, are causing thee to stray, Thy pathways, have they destroyed,¹³ Yahweh hath taken his station to plead, - And is standing to judge peoples:¹⁴ Yahweh, into judgment, will enter, With the elders of his people And their princes, - But ye, have consumed the vineyard, That which hath been robbed from the oppressed, is in your houses.¹⁵ What right have ye to crush my people, And the faces of the oppressed, to grind? Demandeth My Lord Yahweh of hosts - And Yahweh saith -

¹⁶ Because haughty are the daughters of Zion, And they walk with neck thrown back, and wanton eyes, - Tripping along as they go, And with their feet, making, a tinkling sound,¹⁷ Therefore will My Lord, smite with leprosy the crown of hair of the daughters of Zion, - And, as for Yahweh, their shame, will he lay bare!¹⁸ In that day, will My Lord remove the finery - of the anklets, and the little suns and the little moons;¹⁹ the pendants and the bracelets and the veils;²⁰ the chaplets and the armlets and the girdles, and the scent-cases, and the amulets;²¹ the rings and the nose-jewels;²² the robes, and the over-tunics, and the cloaks and the purses;²³ and the mirrors and the linen wraps, and the tiaras and the cloaks.²⁴ And it shall come to pass - That instead of fragrance, a putrid odour, shall be, And instead of a girdle, an encircling rope, And instead of braided hair, baldness, And instead of a festal robe, a girding of sackcloth, Branding instead of beauty:²⁵ Thy males, by the sword shall fall, - And, thy mighty men, by the war;²⁶ And her gates shall mourn and lament, - And forsaken, on the ground, shah she sit.