MLV(i)
1 For, behold, the Lord, Jehovah of hosts, takes away from Jerusalem and from Judah support and staff, the whole support of bread and the whole support of water,
2 the mighty man and the man of war, the judge and the prophet and the diviner and the elder,
3 the captain of fifty and the honorable man and the counselor and the expert craftsman and the skillful enchanter.
4 And I will give sons to be their rulers and babes will rule over them. 5 And the people will be oppressed, every one by another and every one by his neighbor. The child himself will behave-proudly against the old man and the base against the honorable.
6 When a man will take hold of his brother in the house of his father, saying, You have clothing, be our ruler and let this ruin be under your hand, 7 in that day he will lift up his voice, saying, I will not be a healer, for in my house is neither bread nor clothing. You* will not make me ruler of the people.
8 For Jerusalem is ruined and Judah has fallen, because their tongue and their practices are against Jehovah, to provoke the eyes of his glory. 9 The show of their countenance witnesses against them and they declare their sin as Sodom; they do not hide it. Woe to their soul! For they have done evil to themselves.
10 Say you* of the righteous, that it is well, for they will eat the fruit of their practices. 11 Woe to the wicked! It is ill with him, for what his hands have done will be done to him.
12 As for my people, children are their oppressors and women rule over them. O my people, those who advance you, are making you go-astray and destroy the way of your paths.
13 Jehovah stands up to contend and stands to judge the peoples. 14 Jehovah will enter into judgment with the elders of his people and the rulers of it. It is you* who have eaten up the vineyard; the spoil of a poor man is in your* houses. 15 What do you* mean that you* crush my people and grind the face of the poor? says the Lord, Jehovah of hosts.
16 Moreover Jehovah said, Because the daughters of Zion are haughty and walk with outstretched necks and wanton eyes, walking and mincing as they go and making a tinkling with their feet, 17 therefore the Lord will kill* with a scab the crown of the head of the daughters of Zion and Jehovah will lay bare their secret parts.
18 In that day, the Lord will take away the beauty of their anklets and the hair nets and the crescents, 19 the pendants and the bracelets and the mufflers, 20 the bonnets and the ankle chains and the sashes and the perfume-boxes and the amulets, 21 the rings and the nose-jewels, 22 the festival robes and the cloaks and the shawls and the satchels, 23 the hand-mirrors and the fine linen and the turbans and the veils.
24 And it will happen, that instead of sweet spices there will be rottenness and instead of a belt, a rope and instead of well set hair, baldness and instead of a robe, a girding of sackcloth, branding instead of beauty. 25 Your men will fall by the sword and your mighty in the war. 26 And her gates will lament and mourn and she will be desolate and sit upon the ground.
4 And I will give sons to be their rulers and babes will rule over them. 5 And the people will be oppressed, every one by another and every one by his neighbor. The child himself will behave-proudly against the old man and the base against the honorable.
6 When a man will take hold of his brother in the house of his father, saying, You have clothing, be our ruler and let this ruin be under your hand, 7 in that day he will lift up his voice, saying, I will not be a healer, for in my house is neither bread nor clothing. You* will not make me ruler of the people.
8 For Jerusalem is ruined and Judah has fallen, because their tongue and their practices are against Jehovah, to provoke the eyes of his glory. 9 The show of their countenance witnesses against them and they declare their sin as Sodom; they do not hide it. Woe to their soul! For they have done evil to themselves.
10 Say you* of the righteous, that it is well, for they will eat the fruit of their practices. 11 Woe to the wicked! It is ill with him, for what his hands have done will be done to him.
12 As for my people, children are their oppressors and women rule over them. O my people, those who advance you, are making you go-astray and destroy the way of your paths.
13 Jehovah stands up to contend and stands to judge the peoples. 14 Jehovah will enter into judgment with the elders of his people and the rulers of it. It is you* who have eaten up the vineyard; the spoil of a poor man is in your* houses. 15 What do you* mean that you* crush my people and grind the face of the poor? says the Lord, Jehovah of hosts.
16 Moreover Jehovah said, Because the daughters of Zion are haughty and walk with outstretched necks and wanton eyes, walking and mincing as they go and making a tinkling with their feet, 17 therefore the Lord will kill* with a scab the crown of the head of the daughters of Zion and Jehovah will lay bare their secret parts.
18 In that day, the Lord will take away the beauty of their anklets and the hair nets and the crescents, 19 the pendants and the bracelets and the mufflers, 20 the bonnets and the ankle chains and the sashes and the perfume-boxes and the amulets, 21 the rings and the nose-jewels, 22 the festival robes and the cloaks and the shawls and the satchels, 23 the hand-mirrors and the fine linen and the turbans and the veils.
24 And it will happen, that instead of sweet spices there will be rottenness and instead of a belt, a rope and instead of well set hair, baldness and instead of a robe, a girding of sackcloth, branding instead of beauty. 25 Your men will fall by the sword and your mighty in the war. 26 And her gates will lament and mourn and she will be desolate and sit upon the ground.