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For look, the Lord Yahweh of hosts is removing every source of support ^[Literally “supplies and supplies”] from Jerusalem and from Judah: all of the supplies of bread and all of the supplies of water,
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mighty warrior and man of war, judge and prophet, and diviner and elder,
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captain of fifty and the honorable men of rank, and counselor and skillful magicians and skillful enchanter.
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And I will make boys their princes, and children shall rule over them.
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And the people will be oppressed by each other ^[Literally “man by man”] and a man by his neighbor. The boy will act arrogantly toward the elder, and the dishonorable toward the honorable.
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Indeed, a man will seize his brother in the house of his father: “You have a cloak; ^[Literally “a cloak for you”] you shall be a leader for us, and this heap of ruins shall be under your hand!“
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He will lift up his voice on that day, saying, “I will not be a healer; in my house there is no bread and there is no cloak. You shall not make me the leader of the people!“
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For Jerusalem has stumbled, and Judah has fallen because their speech and their deeds are against Yahweh, defying the eyes of his glory.
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The look on their faces testifies against them and they declare their sin like Sodom; they do not hide it. Woe to their soul! For they have dealt out evil to themselves.
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Tell the innocent ^[Singular] that it is good for they shall eat the fruit of their deeds.
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Woe to the wicked! ^[Singular] It is bad! For what is done by his hands will be done to him.
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My people—children are their oppressors, and women rule over them. My people, your leaders are misleading you, and they confuse the course of your paths.
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Yahweh takes his stand to conduct a legal case and takes his stand to judge the peoples.
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Yahweh enters into judgment with the elders of his people and its princes. “And you! You have devoured the vineyard; the spoil of the poor is in your houses!
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Why ^[Literally “What to you”] do you crush my people and grind the face of the poor?” declares ^[Literally “declaration of”] the Lord Yahweh of hosts.
v16
And Yahweh said: “Because ^[There are two Hebrew words for “because” here] the daughters of Zion are haughty, and they walk with outstretched neck, and they give flirting glances with their eyes, mincing along as they go, ^[Literally “they go walking and mincing along”] and with their feet they rattle their bangles, ^[Literally “they tinkle with their feet”]
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the Lord will make the heads ^[Hebrew “head”] of the daughters of Zion scabby, and Yahweh will lay their foreheads bare.”
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In that day the Lord will take away the finery of the anklets and the headbands and the crescent necklaces,
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the pendants and the bracelets and the veils,
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the headdresses and the armlets and the sashes,
and the perfume boxes ^[Literally “houses of the breath”] and the amulets,
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the signet rings and the nose rings,
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the festal robes and the mantles, and the cloaks and the handbags,
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and the mirrors and the linen garments, and the turbans and the wraps.
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And this shall happen: There will be a stench instead of perfume, and a rope instead of a sash, and baldness instead of a well-set hairdo, and a clothing wrap of sackcloth instead of a rich robe, branding instead of beauty.
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Your men shall fall by the sword, and your warriors in battle.
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And her ^[That is, Jerusalem’s] gates shall lament and mourn, and she shall be banished; she shall sit upon the ground.