1For behold, the Lord, the LORD of Hosts, removes from Jerusalem and from Judah support and support—every support of food and every support of water.2The mighty man and the man of battle, the judge and the prophet and the diviner and the elder.3The ruler of fifty and the one who lifts faces, the adviser and the wise man of craft and the one who understands charm.4And I will give youths as their rulers, and caprices will rule over them.5And the people will be oppressed, each man by another man and each man by his neighbor; the youth will be assertive against the elder, and the dishonored against the honored.6For a man will seize his brother in the house of his father, saying, "You have a mantle; you will be our chief, and these ruins will be under your hand."7He will lift up on that day, saying, "I will not be a binder, and in my house there is no food and no mantle; do not make me chief of the people."8For Jerusalem has stumbled and Judah has fallen, because their tongue and their deeds are against the LORD, to rebel against the eyes of his glory.9The look of their faces has testified against them, and they have declared their sin like Sodom; they have not hidden it. Woe to their soul, for they have brought harm upon themselves.10Say of the righteous that it is pleasant, for they will eat the fruit of their deeds.11Woe to the wicked; it is bad for him, for the recompense of his hands will be done to him.12My people—his oppressors mock him, and women rule over him. My people—your blessers lead you astray, and they have swallowed up the way of your conduct.13The LORD stands to contend and stands to judge the peoples.14The LORD will come in justice with the elders of his people and his rulers. And you have burned the vineyard; the violence done to the afflicted is in your houses.15What is this to you? You crush my people, and you grind the faces of the afflicted, declares the Lord, LORD of Hosts.16And the LORD said, Because the daughters of Zion have exalted themselves and walk with stretched throat and ogling eyes, going about and mincing as they walk, and they tinkle with their feet.17And the Lord will scar the crown of the daughters of Zion, and the LORD will uncover their secret parts.18On that day the Lord will remove the beauty of the anklets and the headbands and the crescents.19The pendants and the bracelets and the veils.20The headdresses and the bracelets and the sashes and the houses of the soul and the charms.21The rings and the rings of the face.22The robes and the over-tunics and the cloaks and the purses.23And the tablets and the linens and the turbans and the veils.24And it will be: instead of spice, decay; instead of a belt, a rope; instead of a hairstyle, a bald spot; instead of a robe, a girding of sackcloth; branding instead of beauty.25Your men will fall by the sword, and your might will fall in battle.26And her entrances will lament and mourn, and she will be emptied and will sit upon the land.
Chapter 4
1And seven women will take hold of one man on that day, saying, "We will eat our own food and wear our own mantle; only let your name be called over us; take away our reproach."