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[1] For lo, the Lord God of hosts will take away from Jerusalem and from Judah the stay and the strength: even all the stay of bread, and all the stay of water,
[2] The strong man, and the man of war, the judge and the prophet, the prudent and the aged,
[3] The captain of fifty, and the honorable, and the counselor, and the cunning artificer, and the eloquent man.
[4] And I will appoint children to be their princes, and babes shall rule over them.
[5] The people shall be oppressed one of another, and every one by his neighbor: the children shall presume against the ancient, and the vile against the honorable.
[6] When every one shall take hold of his brother of the house of his father, and say, Thou hast clothing: thou shalt be our prince, and let this fall be under thine hand.
[7] In that day he shall swear, saying, I cannot be an helper: for there is no bread in mine house, nor clothing: therefore make me no prince of the people.
[8] Doubtless Jerusalem is fallen, and Judah is fallen down, because their tongue and works are against the Lord, to provoke the eyes of his glory.
[9] The trial of their countenance testifieth against them, yea, they declare their sins as Sodom, they hide them not. Woe be unto their souls: for they have rewarded evil unto themselves.
[10] Say ye, Surely it shall be well with the just: for they shall eat the fruit of their works.
[11] Woe be to the wicked, it shall be evil with him: for the reward of his hands shall be given him.
[12] Children are extortioners of my people, and women have rule over them: O my people, they that lead thee, cause thee to err, and destroy the way of thy paths.
[13] The Lord standeth up to plead, yea, he standeth to judge the people.
[14] The Lord shall enter into judgment with the ancients of his people and the princes thereof: for ye have eaten up the vineyard: the spoil of the poor is in your houses.
[15] What have ye to do, that ye beat my people to pieces, and grind the faces of the poor, saith the Lord, even the Lord of hosts?
[16] The Lord also saith, Because the daughters of Zion are haughty, and walk with stretched out necks, and with wandering eyes, walking and mincing as they go, and making a tinkling with their feet,
[17] Therefore shall the Lord make the heads of the daughters of Zion bald, and the Lord shall discover their secret parts.
[18] In that day shall the Lord take away the ornament of the slippers, and the cauls, and the round tires,
[19] The sweet balls, and the bracelets, and the bonnets,
[20] The tires of the head, and the slops, and the headbands, and the tablets, and the earrings,
[21] The rings and the mufflers,
[22] The costly apparel and the veils, and the wimples, and the crisping pins,
[23] And the glasses and the fine linen, and the hoods, and the lawns.
[24] And instead of sweet savor, there shall be stink, and instead of a girdle, a rent, and instead of dressing of the hair, baldness, and instead of a stomacher, a girding of sackcloth, and burning instead of beauty.
[25] Thy men shall fall by the sword, and thy strength in the battle.
[26] Then shall her gates mourn and lament, and she, being desolate, shall sit upon the ground.
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