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Isaiah - ch 3 v 1 - 20
- 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;
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