1For lo! the Lord, Yahweh of hosts, removing from Jerusalem and from Judah, The stay and staff,—The whole stay of bread, And the whole stay of water: 2Man of might, and man of war,—Judge and prophet, And diviner and elder; 3Captain of fifty, and favourite; And counselor, and skilled artificer, And master of magical formulas; 4And I will appoint, boys, to be their princes,—And, petulant children, shall rule over them, 5And the people, will tyrannise, Every man over his fellow-man, And every man over his friend,—And they will rage, The boy, against, the elder, And, the despised, against, the honourable, 6When a man, shall lay hold, on his brother, of the house of his father, [saying]—Clothing, hast thou, Become thou our, ruler, This downfall, be under thy hand. 7He will swear, in that day, saying—I will take no control, When, in mine own house, is neither food nor clothing,—Ye must not set me, for a ruler of people! 8For stumbled, hath Jerusalem, and, Judah, hath fallen,—Because, their tongue and their doings, are against Yahweh, Provoking his glorious, presence.

9The show of their face, hath answered against them, And, their sin—like Sodom, have they told, they have not concealed it. Alas for their souls! For, they, have requited, to, themselves, calamity. 10Say ye to the righteous, It is well! For, the fruit of their doings, shall they eat: 11Alas! for the lawless, it is ill, For, what his own hand hath matured, shall be done to him. 12My people! children, are their tyrants, And, women, rule over them,—My people! they who should lead thee forward, are causing thee to stray, Thy pathways, have they destroyed. 13Yahweh, hath taken his station to plead,—And is standing to judge peoples: 14Yahweh, into judgment, will enter, With the elders of his people, And their princes,—But, ye, have consumed the vineyard, That which hath been robbed from the oppressed, is in your houses. 15What right have ye to crush my people, And, the faces of the oppressed, to grind? Demandeth My Lord, Yahweh of hosts—And Yahweh saith—

16Because haughty, are the daughters of Zion, And they walk with neck thrown back, and wanton eyes,—Tripping along as they go, And, with their feet, making, a tinkling sound, 17Therefore will My Lord, smite with leprosy, the crown of hair of the daughters of Zion,—And, as for Yahweh, their shame, will he lay bare! 18In that day, will My Lord remove the finery—of the anklets, and the little suns, and the little moons; 19the pendants, and the bracelets, and the veils; 20the chaplets, and the armlets, and the girdles, and the scent-cases, and the amulets; 21the rings, and the nose-jewels; 22the robes, and the over-tunics, and the cloaks, and the purses; 23and the mirrors, and the linen wraps, and the tiaras, and the cloaks. 24And it shall come to pass-That, instead of fragrance, a putrid odour, shall be, And, instead of a girdle, an encircling rope, And, instead of braided hair, baldness, And, instead of a festal robe, a girding of sackcloth, Branding instead of beauty: 25Thy males, by the sword shall fall,—And, thy mighty men, by the war; 26And her gates shall mourn and lament,—And, forsaken, on the ground, shall she sit.