Leaders of Judah and Jerusalem

¹ For look, the Lord Yahweh of hosts is removing ⌞every source of support⌟¹ from Jerusalem and from Judah: all of the supplies of bread and all of the supplies of water,

1. Literally “supplies and supplies”

² mighty warrior and man of war, judge and prophet, and diviner and elder,

³ captain of fifty and the honorable men of rank, and counselor and skillful magicians and skillful enchanter.

⁴ And I will make boys their princes, and children shall rule over them.

⁵ And the people will be oppressed ⌞by each other⌟¹ and a man by his neighbor. The boy will act arrogantly toward the elder, and the dishonorable toward the honorable.

1. Literally “man by man”

⁶ Indeed, a man will seize his brother in the house of his father: “⌞You have a cloak⌟;¹ you shall be a leader for us, and this heap of ruins shall be under your hand!”

1. Literally “a cloak for you”

⁷ He will lift up his voice on that day, saying, “I will not be a healer; in my house there is no bread and there is no cloak. You shall not make me the leader of the people!”

⁸ For Jerusalem has stumbled, and Judah has fallen because their speech and their deeds are against Yahweh, defying the eyes of his glory.

⁹ The look on their faces testifies against them and they declare their sin like Sodom; they do not hide it. Woe to their soul! For they have dealt out evil to themselves.

¹⁰ Tell the innocent¹ that it is good for they shall eat the fruit of their deeds.

1. Singular

¹¹ Woe to the wicked!¹ It is bad! For what is done by his hands will be done to him.

1. Singular

¹² My people—children are their oppressors, and women rule over them. My people, your leaders are misleading you, and they confuse the course of your paths.

¹³ Yahweh takes his stand to conduct a legal case and takes his stand to judge the peoples.

¹⁴ Yahweh enters into judgment with the elders of his people and its princes. “And you! You have devoured the vineyard; the spoil of the poor is in your houses!

The Pride of Jerusalem’s Women

¹⁵ ⌞Why⌟¹ do you crush my people and grind the face of the poor?” ⌞declares⌟² the Lord Yahweh of hosts.

1. Literally “What to you”
2. Literally “declaration of”

¹⁶ And Yahweh said: “Because¹ the daughters of Zion are haughty, and they walk with outstretched neck, and they give flirting glances with their eyes, ⌞mincing along as they go⌟,² and ⌞with their feet they rattle their bangles⌟,³

1. There are two Hebrew words for “because” here
2. Literally “they go walking and mincing along”
3. Literally “they tinkle with their feet”

¹⁷ the Lord will make the heads¹ of the daughters of Zion scabby, and Yahweh will lay their foreheads bare.”

1. Hebrew “head”

¹⁸ In that day the Lord will take away the finery of the anklets and the headbands and the crescent necklaces,

¹⁹ the pendants and the bracelets and the veils,

²⁰ the headdresses and the armlets and the sashes, and the ⌞perfume boxes⌟¹ and the amulets,

1. Literally “houses of the breath”

²¹ the signet rings and the nose rings,

²² the festal robes and the mantles, and the cloaks and the handbags,

²³ and the mirrors and the linen garments, and the turbans and the wraps.

²⁴ And this shall happen: There will be a stench instead of perfume, and a rope instead of a sash, and baldness instead of a well-set hairdo, and a clothing wrap of sackcloth instead of a rich robe, branding instead of beauty.

²⁵ Your men shall fall by the sword, and your warriors in battle.

²⁶ And her¹ gates shall lament and mourn, and she shall be banished; she shall sit upon the ground.

1. That is, Jerusalem’s