¹ For, behold, the Lord, Jehovah of Hosts, takes away the stay and the staff from Jerusalem and from Judah; the whole stay of bread and the whole stay of water;

² the mighty man, and the man of war; the judge and the prophet; and the diviner and the elder;

³ the commander of fifty and the exalted of face; the counselor and the skilled craftsman; and the expert enchanter.

⁴ And I will give young boys to be their rulers, and caprices shall rule over them.

⁵ And the people shall be crushed, man against man, and a man on his neighbor. The boy will be insolent against the elder, and the despised against the honorable.

⁶ When a man shall take hold of his brother, at his father's house, saying , A cloak! Come, you be a ruler for is; let this ruin be under your hand.

⁷ In that day he shall swear, saying, I will not be one who binds up; for there is no bread nor a cloak in my house; you shall not make me a ruler of the people.

⁸ For Jerusalem has stumbled, and Judah has fallen; because their tongue and their deeds toward Jehovah are to rebel against the eyes of His glory.

⁹ The look of their faces witnesses against them; they have declared their sin like Sodom; they do not hide it . Woe to their soul! For they have dealt evil to themselves.

¹⁰ Say to the righteous that it is well; for they shall eat of the fruit of their doings.

¹¹ Woe to the wicked! For the evil, the doing of his hand will be done to him.

¹² As for My people, children are their oppressors, and women rule over him. Oh My people, your rulers cause you to go astray, and they swallow the way of your paths.

¹³ Jehovah stands up to plead His cause, and stands up to judge the peoples.

¹⁴ Jehovah will enter into judgment with the elders of His people, and their kings. For you have eaten up the vineyard, the plunder of the poor is in your houses.

¹⁵ What do you mean that you crush My people, and grind the faces of the poor, says the Lord, Jehovah of Hosts?

¹⁶ And Jehovah says, Because the daughters of Zion are proud, and walk with stretched out necks and wanton eyes, walking and mincing as they go, and make a tinkling with their feet;

¹⁷ So Jehovah will make the crown of the daughter of Zion scabby; and Jehovah will lay their secret parts bare.

¹⁸ In that day the Lord will take away the beauty of the ankle bracelets, and the headbands, and the crescents,

¹⁹ the pendants, and the bracelets, and the veils;

²⁰ the headdresses, and the leg ornaments, and the sashes, and the houses of the soul, and the amulets;

²¹ the rings and nose jewels;

²² the festal apparel and the outer garments; and the mantles, and the purses;

²³ the mirrors and the fine linen; and the turbans and the veils.

²⁴ And it shall be, instead of a smell of perfume, there shall be an odor of decay. And instead of a sash, a rope. And instead of well set hair, baldness. And instead of a rich robe, a girding of sackcloth; burning instead of beauty.

²⁵ Your men shall fall by the sword, and your mighty in the war.

²⁶ And her gates shall lament and mourn; and she shall sit bare on the ground.