[1] For
look, the Master, יהוה of hosts, is
turning aside from Yerushalayim and from Yehuḏah the stock and the store, all the supply of bread and
all the supply of water;
[2] the mighty man
and the man of battle, the judge and the prophet, and the diviner and the
elder;
[3] the commander of
fifty and the highly respected man, and the counsellor and the skilled
craftsman, and the clever enchanter.
[4] “And I shall make
youths their heads, and children shall rule over them.
[5] And the people
shall exert pressure, man on man, man on his neighbour; the young rise up
against the older, and the lightly esteemed against the highly esteemed.”
[6] When a man takes
hold of his brother in the house of his father, by the garment, and say,
“Come, be a chief over us, and let this ruin be under your hand,”
[7] he shall swear in
that day, saying, “I am not a healer, for in my house is neither bread nor
garment; do not make me a chief of the people.”
[8] For Yerushalayim
has stumbled, and Yehuḏah
has fallen, because their tongue and their doings are against יהוה, to provoke the eyes of His esteem.
[9] The look on their
faces witnesses against them, and they declare their sin as Seḏom; they do not hide it. Woe to
their being! For they have brought evil upon themselves.
[10] “Say to the
righteous it is well, for they eat the fruit of their doings.
[11] “Woe to the wrong
– evil! For the reward of his hand is done to him.
[12] “My people!
Youths exert pressure on them, and women rule over them. O My people! Your
leaders lead you astray1, and
swallow the way of your paths.” Footnote: 1See
also 9:16.
[13] יהוה shall stand up to plead, and is standing
to judge the peoples.
[14] יהוה enters into judgment with the elders of
His people and its heads, “It is you who have eaten up the vineyard, the
plunder of the poor is in your houses.
[15] “What do you mean
by crushing My people and grinding the faces of the poor?” declares the Master,
יהוה of hosts.
[16] And יהוה says, “Because the daughters of Tsiyon are
haughty, and walk with outstretched necks and seductive eyes, walking and
mincing as they go, making a jingling with their feet,
[17] therefore יהוה shall smite with a scab the crown of the
head of the daughters of Tsiyon, and יהוה expose their nakedness.”
[18] In that day יהוה takes away the finery of the anklets, and
the headbands, and the crescents,
[19] the pendants, the
bracelets and the veils,
[20] the headdresses,
and the leg ornaments, and the sashes, and the perfume bottles, and the
amulets,
[21] the rings, and
the nose jewels,
[22] the costly robes,
and the cloaks, and the shawls, and the purses,
[23] the mirrors, and
the fine linen, and the turbans, and the large veils.
[24] And it shall be:
Instead of a sweet fragrance, a smell of decay; and instead of a belt, a rope;
and instead of well-set hair, baldness; and instead of a festal robe, a girding
of sackcloth; and branding instead of loveliness.
[25] Your men shall
fall by the sword, and your strength in battle.
[26] And her gates
shall lament and mourn, and she, deserted, shall sit on the ground.
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