| 1. | For, lo, the Lord, Jehovah of Hosts, Is turning aside from Jerusalem, And from Judah, stay and staff, Every stay of bread, and every stay of water. |
| 2. | Hero and man of war, judge and prophet, And diviner and elder, |
| 3. | Head of fifty, and accepted of faces, And counsellor, and the wise of artificers, And the intelligent of charmers. |
| 4. | And I have made youths their heads, And sucklings rule over them. |
| 5. | And the people hath exacted -- man upon man, Even a man on his neighbour, Enlarge themselves do the youths against the aged, And the lightly esteemed against the honoured. |
| 6. | When one layeth hold on his brother, `Of' the house of his father, `by' the garment, `Come, a ruler thou art to us, And this ruin `is' under thy hand.' |
| 7. | He lifteth up, in that day, saying: `I am not a binder up, And in my house is neither bread nor garment, Ye do not make me a ruler of the people.' |
| 8. | For stumbled hath Jerusalem, and Judah hath fallen, For their tongue and their doings `are' against Jehovah, To provoke the eyes of His glory. |
| 9. | The appearance of their faces witnessed against them, And their sin, as Sodom, they declared, They have not hidden! Wo to their soul, For they have done to themselves evil. |
| 10. | Say ye to the righteous, that `it is' good, Because the fruit of their doings they eat. |
| 11. | Wo to the wicked -- evil, Because the deed of his hand is done to him. |
| 12. | My people -- its exactors `are' sucklings, And women have ruled over it. My people -- thy eulogists are causing to err, And the way of thy paths swallowed up. |
| 13. | Jehovah hath stood up to plead, And He is standing to judge the peoples. |
| 14. | Jehovah into judgment doth enter With elders of His people, and its heads: `And ye, ye have consumed the vineyard, Plunder of the poor `is' in your houses. |
| 15. | What -- to you? ye bruise My people, And the faces of the poor ye grind.' An affirmation of the Lord, Jehovah of Hosts, And Jehovah saith: |
| 16. | `Because that daughters of Zion have been haughty, And they walk stretching out the neck, And deceiving `with' the eyes, Walking and mincing they go, And with their feet they make a tinkling, |
| 17. | The Lord also hath scabbed The crown of the head of daughters of Zion, And Jehovah their simplicity exposeth. |
| 18. | In that day doth the Lord turn aside The beauty of the tinkling ornaments, And of the embroidered works, And of the round tires like moons, |
| 19. | Of the drops, and the bracelets, and the mufflers, |
| 20. | Of the bonnets, and the ornaments of the legs, And of the bands, And of the perfume boxes, and the amulets, |
| 21. | Of the seals, and of the nose-rings, |
| 22. | Of the costly apparel, and of the mantles, And of the coverings, and of the purses, |
| 23. | Of the mirrors, and of the linen garments, And of the hoods, and of the vails, |
| 24. | And it hath been, instead of spice is muck, And instead of a girdle, a rope, And instead of curled work, baldness, And instead of a stomacher a girdle of sackcloth. |
| 25. | For instead of glory, thy men by sword do fall, And thy might in battle. |
| 26. | And lamented and mourned have her openings, Yea, she hath been emptied, on the earth she sitteth! |