3 For, behold, the Lord, the Lord of hosts,
doth take away from Jerusalem and from Judah the stay and the staff,
the whole stay of bread, and the whole stay of water,
² the mighty man, and the man of war,
the judge, and the prophet, and the prudent, and the ancient,
³ the captain of fifty, and the honourable man,
and the counsellor, and the cunning artificer, and the eloquent orator.
⁴ And I will give children to be their princes,
and babes shall rule over them.
⁵ And the people shall be oppressed,
every one by another, and every one by his neighbour:
the child shall behave himself proudly against the ancient,
and the base against the honourable.
⁶ When a man shall take hold of his brother of the house of his father, saying,
Thou hast clothing, be thou our ruler,
and let this ruin be under thy hand:
⁷ in that day shall he swear, saying, I will not be an healer;
for in my house is neither bread nor clothing:
make me not a ruler of the people.
⁸ 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.

⁹ The shew 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 rewarded evil unto themselves.
¹⁰ Say ye to the righteous, that it shall be well with him:
for they shall eat the fruit of their doings.
¹¹ Woe unto the wicked! it shall be ill with him:
for the reward of his hands shall be given him.

¹² As for my people, children are their oppressors,
and women rule over them.
O my people, they which lead thee cause thee to err,
and destroy the way of thy paths.
¹³ The Lord standeth up to plead,
and standeth to judge the people.
¹⁴ The Lord will enter into judgment
with the ancients of his people, and the princes thereof:
for ye have eaten up the vineyard;
the spoil of the poor is in your houses.
¹⁵ What mean ye that ye beat my people to pieces,
and grind the faces of the poor? saith the Lord God of hosts.

¹⁶ Moreover the Lord saith,
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:
¹⁷ therefore the Lord will smite with a scab
the crown of the head of the daughters of Zion,
and the Lord will discover their secret parts.
¹⁸ In that day the Lord will take away
the bravery of their tinkling ornaments about their feet,
and their cauls, and their round tires like the moon,
¹⁹ the chains, and the bracelets, and the mufflers,
²⁰ the bonnets, and the ornaments of the legs,
and the headbands, and the tablets, and the earrings,
²¹ the rings, and nose jewels,
²² the changeable suits of apparel,
and the mantles, and the wimples, and the crisping pins,
²³ the glasses, and the fine linen,
and the hoods, and the vails.
²⁴ And it shall come to pass, that instead of sweet smell there shall be stink;
and instead of a girdle a rent;
and instead of well set hair baldness;
and instead of a stomacher a girding of sackcloth;
and burning instead of beauty.
²⁵ Thy men shall fall by the sword,
and thy mighty in the war.
²⁶ And her gates shall lament and mourn;
and she being desolate shall sit upon the ground.