¹ For, see, the Lord, the LORD of hosts, does take away from Jerusalem and from Judah the stay and the staff, the whole stay of bread, and the whole stay of water, ² The mighty man, and the man of war, the judge, and the prophet, and the prudent, and the ancient, ³ The captain of fifty, and the honourable man, and the counsellor, and the cunning artificer, and the eloquent orator. ⁴ And I will give children to be their princes, and children will rule over them. ⁵ And the people will be oppressed, every one by another, and every one by his neighbour: the child will behave himself proudly against the ancient, and the base against the honourable. ⁶ When a man will take hold of his brother of the house of his father, saying, you have clothing, be our ruler, and let this ruin be under your hand ⁷ In that day will he swear, saying, I will not be a healer; for in my house is neither bread nor clothing: make me not a ruler of the people. ⁸ For Jerusalem is ruined, and Judah is fallen: because their tongue and their doings are against the LORD, to provoke the eyes of his glory. ⁹ The show of their countenance does witness against them; and they declare their sin as Sodom, they hide it not. Woe to their soul! for they have rewarded evil to themselves. ¹⁰ Say you to the righteous, that it will be well with him: for they will eat the fruit of their doings. ¹¹ Woe to the wicked! it will be ill with him: for the reward of his hands will be given him. ¹² As for my people, children are their oppressors, and women rule over them. O my people, they which lead you cause you to stray, and destroy the way of your paths. ¹³ The LORD stands up to plead, and stands to judge the people. ¹⁴ The LORD will enter into judgment with the ancients of his people, and the princes of it: for you have eaten up the vineyard; the spoil of the poor is in your houses. ¹⁵ What mean you that you beat my people to pieces, and grind 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 forward necks and wanton eyes, walking and mincing as they go, and making a tinkling with their feet ¹⁷ Therefore the Lord will smite with a scab the crown of the head of the daughters of Zion, and the LORD will discover their secret parts. ¹⁸ In that day the Lord will take away the bravery of their tinkling ornaments about their feet, and their cauls, and their round tires like the moon, ¹⁹ The chains, and the bracelets, and the mufflers, ²⁰ The bonnets, and the ornaments of the legs, and the headbands, and the tablets , and the earrings, ²¹ The rings, and nose jewels, ²² The changeable suits of apparel, and the mantles, and the wimples, and the crisping pins, ²³ The glasses, and the fine linen, and the hoods, and the vails. ²⁴ And it will come to pass, that instead of sweet smell there will be stink; and instead of a girdle a rent; and instead of well set hair baldness; and instead of a stomacher a girding of sackcloth; and burning instead of beauty. ²⁵ your men will fall by the sword, and your mighty in the war. ²⁶ And her gates will lament and mourn and she being desolate will sit on the ground.