Isaiah:3

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* For , behold , the Lord , the LORD of hosts , doth take away from Jerusalem and from Judah stay and staff , every stay of bread , and every 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 man of rank , and the counsellor , and the cunning charmer , and the skilful enchanter . * And I will give children to be their princes , and babes shall rule over them . * And the people shall oppress one another , every man his fellow , and every man his neighbour ; the child shall behave insolently against the aged , and the base against the honourable , * For a man shall take hold of his brother of the house of his father : 'Thou hast a mantle , be thou our ruler , and let this ruin be under thy hand .' * In that day shall he swear , saying : 'I will not be a healer ; for in my house is neither bread nor a mantle ; ye shall not make me ruler of a people .' * 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 . * The show of their countenance doth witness against them ; and they declare their sin as Sodom , they hide it not . Woe unto their soul ! for they have wrought evil unto 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 ; for the work of his hands shall be done to him . * As for My people , a babe is their master , and women rule over them . O My people , they that lead thee cause thee to err , and destroy the way of thy paths . * The LORD standeth up to plead , and standeth to judge the peoples . * The LORD will enter into judgment with the elders of His people , and the princes thereof : '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 face of the poor ?' saith the Lord , the GOD of hosts . * Moreover the LORD said : Because the daughters of Zion are haughty , and walk with stretched-forth necks and wanton eyes , walking and mincing as they go , and making a tinkling with their feet ; * Therefore the Lord will smite with a scab the crown of the head of the daughters of Zion , and the LORD will lay bare their secret parts . * In that day the Lord will take away the bravery of their anklets , and the fillets , and the crescents ; * the pendants , and the bracelets , and the veils ; * the headtires , and the armlets , and the sashes , and the corselets , and the amulets ; * the rings , and the nose-jewels ; * the aprons , and the mantelets , and the cloaks , and the girdles ; * and the gauze robes , and the fine linen , and the turbans , and the mantles . * And it shall come to pass , that instead of sweet spices there shall be rottenness ; and instead of a girdle rags ; and instead of curled hair baldness ; and instead of a stomacher a girding of sackcloth ; branding instead of beauty . * Thy men shall fall by the sword , and thy mighty in the war . * And her gates shall lament and mourn ; and utterly bereft she shall sit upon the ground .

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