Isaiah:3

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* For behold , the Lord , Jehovah of hosts , will take away from Jerusalem and from Judah stay and staff , the whole stay of bread , and the whole stay of water , * the mighty man and the man of war , the judge and the prophet , and the diviner and the elder , * the captain of fifty , and the honourable man , and the counsellor , and the clever among artificers , and the one versed in enchantments . * And I will appoint youths as their princes , and children shall rule over them . * And the people shall be oppressed one by the other , and each by his neighbour ; the child will be insolent against the elder , and the base against the honourable . * When a man shall take hold of his brother , in his father 's house , [and shall say :] Thou hast clothing ; be our chief , and let this ruin be under thy hand ; * he will lift up [his hand ] in that day , saying , I cannot be a healer , and in my house there is neither bread nor clothing ; ye shall not make me a chief of the people . * For Jerusalem stumbleth and Judah falleth , because their tongue and their doings are against Jehovah , to provoke the eyes of his glory . * The look of their face doth witness against them , and they declare their sin as Sodom : they hide it not . Woe unto their soul ! for they have brought evil upon themselves . * Say ye of the righteous that it shall be well [with him ], for they shall eat the fruit of their doings . * Woe unto the wicked ! it shall be ill [with him ], because the desert of his hands shall be rendered unto him . * [As for ] my people , children are their oppressors , and women rule over them . My people ! they that guide thee mislead [thee ], and destroy the way of thy paths . * Jehovah setteth himself to plead , and standeth to judge the peoples . * Jehovah will enter into judgment with the elders of his people and their princes , [saying :] It is ye that have eaten up the vineyard : the spoil of the poor is in your houses . * What mean ye that ye crush my people , and grind the faces of the afflicted ? saith the Lord , Jehovah of hosts . * And Jehovah said , Because the daughters of Zion are haughty , and walk with stretched-out neck and wanton eyes , and go along mincing , and making a tinkling with their feet ; * therefore the Lord will make bald the crown of the head of the daughters of Zion , and Jehovah will lay bare their secret parts . * In that day the Lord will take away the ornament of anklets , and the little suns and crescents , * the pearl-drops , and the bracelets , and the veils , * the head-dresses , and the stepping chains , and the girdles , and the scent-boxes , and the amulets ; * the finger-rings , and the nose-rings ; * the festival-robes , and the tunics , and the mantles , and the wallets ; * the mirrors , and the fine linen bodices , and the turbans , and the flowing veils . * And it shall come to pass , instead of perfume there shall be rottenness ; and instead of a girdle , a rope ; and instead of well-set hair , baldness ; and instead of a robe of display , a girding of sackcloth ; brand instead of beauty . * Thy men shall fall by the sword , and thy mighty in the fight ; * and her gates shall lament and mourn ; and , stripped , she shall sit upon the ground .

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