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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-- 3:2 warrior and soldier, judge and prophet, diviner and elder, 3:3 captain of fifty and dignitary, counselor and skillful magician and expert enchanter. 3:4 And I will make boys their princes, and babes shall rule over them. 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. 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." 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." 3:8 For Jerusalem has stumbled and Judah has fallen, because their speech and their deeds are against the LORD, defying his glorious presence. 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. 3:10 Tell the innocent how fortunate they are, for they shall eat the fruit of their labors. 3:11 Woe to the guilty! How unfortunate they are, for what their hands have done shall be done to them. 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. 3:13 The LORD rises to argue his case; he stands to judge the peoples. 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. 3:15 What do you mean by crushing my people, by grinding the face of the poor? says the Lord GOD of hosts. 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; 3:17 the Lord will afflict with scabs the heads of the daughters of Zion, and the LORD will lay bare their secret parts. 3:18 In that day the Lord will take away the finery of the anklets, the headbands, and the crescents; 3:19 the pendants, the bracelets, and the scarfs; 3:20 the headdresses, the armlets, the sashes, the perfume boxes, and the amulets; 3:21 the signet rings and nose rings; 3:22 the festal robes, the mantles, the cloaks, and the handbags; 3:23 the garments of gauze, the linen garments, the turbans, and the veils. 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. 3:25 Your men shall fall by the sword and your warriors in battle. 3:26 And her gates shall lament and mourn; ravaged, she shall sit upon the ground.