| 1 | For, lo, the Lord, Jehovah of Hosts, Is turning aside from Jerusalem, And from Judah, stay and staff, Every stay of bread, and every stay of water. |
| 2 | Hero and man of war, judge and prophet, And diviner and elder, |
| 3 | Head of fifty, and accepted of faces, And counsellor, and the wise of artificers, And the intelligent of charmers. |
| 4 | And I have made youths their heads, And sucklings rule over them. |
| 5 | And the people hath exacted—man upon man, Even a man on his neighbour, Enlarge themselves do the youths against the aged, And the lightly esteemed against the honoured. |
| 6 | When one layeth hold on his brother, [Of] the house of his father, [by] the garment, 'Come, a ruler thou art to us, And this ruin [is] under thy hand.' |
| 7 | He lifteth up, in that day, saying: 'I am not a binder up, And in my house is neither bread nor garment, Ye do not make me a ruler of the people.' |
| 8 | For stumbled hath Jerusalem, and Judah hath fallen, For their tongue and their doings [are] against Jehovah, To provoke the eyes of His glory. |
| 9 | The appearance of their faces witnessed against them, And their sin, as Sodom, they declared, They have not hidden! Wo to their soul, For they have done to themselves evil. |
| 10 | Say ye to the righteous, that [it is] good, Because the fruit of their doings they eat. |
| 11 | Wo to the wicked—evil, Because the deed of his hand is done to him. |
| 12 | My people—its exactors [are] sucklings, And women have ruled over it. My people—thy eulogists are causing to err, And the way of thy paths swallowed up. |
| 13 | Jehovah hath stood up to plead, And He is standing to judge the peoples. |
| 14 | Jehovah into judgment doth enter With elders of His people, and its heads: 'And ye, ye have consumed the vineyard, Plunder of the poor [is] in your houses. |
| 15 | What—to you? ye bruise My people, And the faces of the poor ye grind.' An affirmation of the Lord, Jehovah of Hosts, And Jehovah saith: |
| 16 | 'Because that daughters of Zion have been haughty, And they walk stretching out the neck, And deceiving [with] the eyes, Walking and mincing they go, And with their feet they make a tinkling, |
| 17 | The Lord also hath scabbed The crown of the head of daughters of Zion, And Jehovah their simplicity exposeth. |
| 18 | In that day doth the Lord turn aside The beauty of the tinkling ornaments, And of the embroidered works, And of the round tires like moons, |
| 19 | Of the drops, and the bracelets, and the mufflers, |
| 20 | Of the bonnets, and the ornaments of the legs, And of the bands, And of the perfume boxes, and the amulets, |
| 21 | Of the seals, and of the nose-rings, |
| 22 | Of the costly apparel, and of the mantles, And of the coverings, and of the purses, |
| 23 | Of the mirrors, and of the linen garments, And of the hoods, and of the vails, |
| 24 | And it hath been, instead of spice is muck, And instead of a girdle, a rope, And instead of curled work, baldness, And instead of a stomacher a girdle of sackcloth. |
| 25 | For instead of glory, thy men by sword do fall, And thy might in battle. |
| 26 | And lamented and mourned have her openings, Yea, she hath been emptied, on the earth she sitteth! |