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| 3:1 |
For now the Sovereign, the LORD of hosts, is taking away from Jerusalem and from Judah support and staff-- all support of bread, and all support of water--
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| 3:2 |
warrior and soldier, judge and prophet, diviner and elder,
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| 3:3 |
captain of fifty and dignitary, counselor and skillful magician and expert enchanter.
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| 3:4 |
And I will make boys their princes, and babes shall rule over them.
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| 3:5 |
The people will be oppressed, everyone by another and everyone by a neighbor; the youth will be insolent to the elder, and the base to the honorable.
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| 3:6 |
Someone will even seize a relative, a member of the clan, saying, "You have a cloak; you shall be our leader, and this heap of ruins shall be under your rule."
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| 3:7 |
But the other will cry out on that day, saying, "I will not be a healer; in my house there is neither bread nor cloak; you shall not make me leader of the people."
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| 3:8 |
For Jerusalem has stumbled and Judah has fallen, because their speech and their deeds are against the LORD, defying his glorious presence.
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| 3:9 |
The look on their faces bears witness against them; they proclaim their sin like Sodom, they do not hide it. Woe to them! For they have brought evil on themselves.
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| 3:10 |
Tell the innocent how fortunate they are, for they shall eat the fruit of their labors.
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| 3:11 |
Woe to the guilty! How unfortunate they are, for what their hands have done shall be done to them.
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| 3:12 |
My people-- children are their oppressors, and women rule over them. O my people, your leaders mislead you, and confuse the course of your paths.
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| 3:13 |
The LORD rises to argue his case; he stands to judge the peoples.
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| 3:14 |
The LORD enters into judgment with the elders and princes of his people: It is you who have devoured the vineyard; the spoil of the poor is in your houses.
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| 3:15 |
What do you mean by crushing my people, by grinding the face of the poor? says the Lord GOD of hosts.
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| 3:16 |
The LORD said: Because the daughters of Zion are haughty and walk with outstretched necks, glancing wantonly with their eyes, mincing along as they go, tinkling with their feet;
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| 3:17 |
the Lord will afflict with scabs the heads of the daughters of Zion, and the LORD will lay bare their secret parts.
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| 3:18 |
In that day the Lord will take away the finery of the anklets, the headbands, and the crescents;
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| 3:19 |
the pendants, the bracelets, and the scarfs;
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| 3:20 |
the headdresses, the armlets, the sashes, the perfume boxes, and the amulets;
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| 3:21 |
the signet rings and nose rings;
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| 3:22 |
the festal robes, the mantles, the cloaks, and the handbags;
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| 3:23 |
the garments of gauze, the linen garments, the turbans, and the veils.
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| 3:24 |
Instead of perfume there will be a stench; and instead of a sash, a rope; and instead of well-set hair, baldness; and instead of a rich robe, a binding of sackcloth; instead of beauty, shame.
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| 3:25 |
Your men shall fall by the sword and your warriors in battle.
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| 3:26 |
And her gates shall lament and mourn; ravaged, she shall sit upon the ground.
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