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[1]FOR, behold, 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, |
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[2]The mighty man and the man of war, the judge and the prophet and the diviner and the elder, |
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[3]The captain of fifty and the honorable man and the counsellor and the skilful carpenter and the expert counsellor. |
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[4]And I will appoint young men to be their princes, and mockers shall rule over them. |
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[5]And the people shall oppress one another, every one his neighbor; and the young men shall provoke the elders, and the base men the honorable. |
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[6]When a man shall take hold of his brother in the house of his father, and say to him, You have clothing, be our ruler, and govern this ruin; |
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[7]In that day he shall answer, and say, I will not be a leader; for in my house is neither bread nor clothing; make me not a ruler over the people. |
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[8]For Jerusalem has stumbled, and Judah has fallen; because their tongue and their doings are against the LORD, provoking God in the majesty of his glory |
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[9]Their hypocrisy witnesses against them; and they declare their sins like Sodom, they do not hide them. Woe to their soul! for they have wrought evil to themselves. |
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[10]Say to the righteous that it shall be well with them; for they shall eat the fruit of their doings. |
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[11]Woe to the wicked! it shall be ill with him, for the reward of his hands shall be given him. |
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[12]The princes shall pluck my people out, and women shall rule over them. O my people, your leaders have caused you to err, and disturbed the way of your paths. |
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[13]The LORD stands up to plead, and stands to judge his people. |
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[14]The LORD will enter into judgment with the elders of his people, and the princes thereof: for you have burned the vineyard; the spoil of the poor is in your houses. |
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[15]Why did you sting my people, and shame the faces of the poor? says the LORD of hosts |
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[16]Because the daughters of Zion have become haughty, and walk with stretched forth necks, and wanton eyes, making a tinkling with their feet, and thus provoking the LORD; |
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[17]Therefore the LORD will bring low the heads of the daughters of Zion, and the LORD shall lay bare their secret parts. |
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[18]In that day the LORD will take away the beauty of their apparel; |
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[19]And their adornments and their necklaces and the braids of their hair and their chains and their bonnets and their veils, |
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[20]The paint of their faces, their earrings and their strings of beads |
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[21]And the ornaments of their legs and their bracelets and nose rings, |
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[22]The garments of varied colors and the mantles and the fine linens, the purple garments, |
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[23]The long outer garments, the purple robes, the scarlet robes, the wardrobe of all their adornments. |
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[24]And it shall come to pass, that instead of a sweet smell there shall be a stink; and instead of an ornamental girdle, a worker's apron; and instead of curled hair, baldness; and instead of purple robes, a girding of sackcloth; for their beauty shall be destroyed. |
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[25]Your mighty men shall fall by the sword, and your valiant men in the battle. |
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[26]And her gates shall lament and mourn; and her victory shall turn to defeat |