Judgment on Judah and Jerusalem
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📚For, look, the Lord, the LORD of hosts,
is taking away from Jerusalem
and from Judah✭ the supply
and the support,
the whole supply of bread,
and the whole supply of water,
2 📚The mighty man,
and the warrior, the judge,
and the prophet, and the diviner,
and the elder,
3 📚The captain of fifty,
and the honourable man,
and the counsellor,
and the skillful craftsman,
and the eloquent orator.
4 📚✭And I will make children
their princes,
and babes will rule over them.
5 📚✭And the people will be oppressed,
each one by another,
and each one by his neighbour.
The child will be insolent
against the elder,
and the base against
the honourable.
6 📚✭When a man takes hold of
his brother from the house
of his father,
saying, “You have clothing;
you be our ruler, and let
these ruins be in your charge”,
7 📚In that day he will protest,
saying, “I am no healer;
for in my house is neither
bread nor clothing.
Do not make me a ruler
of the people”.
8 📚✭✭For Jerusalem is ruined,
and Judah has fallen,
because their tongue and
their actions are against
the LORD,
provoking the eyes of his glory.
9 📚The look on their face testifies
against them,
and they declare their sin like Sodom✭;
they do not hide it.
Woe to their soul!
For they have brought evil
on themselves.
10 📚✭Tell the righteous that it will be
well with him, for they will partake of the fruit of their actions.
11 📚Woe to the wicked!
It will go badly with him,
for he will be paid back for
what his hands have done.
12 📚As for my people,
children are their oppressors,
and women rule over them.
O my people, those who lead you
cause you to go astray✭
and destroy the way of your paths.
13 📚The LORD stands up to plead,
and stands up to judge the people.
14 📚✭The LORD will enter into judgment
with the elders of his people
and its rulers;
for you have eaten up
the vineyard.
The plunder from the poor is
in your houses.
15 📚“What do you mean by
crushing my people and grinding
the faces of the poor?”
says the Lord God of hosts.
16 📚✭Moreover the LORD says,
“Because the daughters
of Zion are haughty,
and walk with stretched
out necks and wanton eyes,
walking and mincing as they go,
and making a tinkling sound
with their feet,
17 📚✭Therefore the Lord will bring
scabs on the crown
of the head of the daughters
of Zion,
and the LORD will uncover
their secret parts”.
18 📚In that day the Lord will
take away their finery,
their tinkling anklets,
and their headbands,
and their crescent ornaments,
19 📚The pendants, and the bracelets,
and the veils,
20 📚The headdresses,
and the leg ornaments,
and the scarves,
and the perfume bottles,
and the charms,
21 📚The rings, and nose jewels,
22 The fine apparel,
and the capes, and the cloaks,
and the purses,
23 📚The mirrors, and the fine linen,
and the turbans,
and the veils.
24 📚And it will be like this:
Instead of a sweet smell
there will be a stink;
and instead of a sash,
a rope; and instead of well set hair,
baldness; and instead of
fine clothing,
a wearing of sackcloth;
and instead of beauty,
branding.
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 sit on the ground
desolate.