¹² In that day ^(A)the Lord God of hosts
    called for weeping and mourning,
    for ^(B)baldness and ^(C)wearing sackcloth;

^29 (A)“‘Cut off your hair and cast it away;
    raise a lamentation on ^(B)the bare heights,
for the Lord has rejected and forsaken
    the generation of his wrath.’

¹⁶ The Lord said:
^(A)Because ^(B)the daughters of Zion are haughty
    and walk with outstretched necks,
    glancing wantonly with their eyes,
mincing along as they go,
    ^(C)tinkling with their feet,
¹⁷ therefore the Lord ^(D)will strike with a scab
    the heads of ^(E)the daughters of Zion,
    and the Lord will lay bare their secret parts.

²⁴ Instead of ^(L)perfume there will be rottenness;
    and instead of a ^(M)belt, a rope;
and instead of ^(N)well-set hair, ^(O)baldness;
    and instead of a rich robe, a ^(P)skirt of sackcloth;
    and ^(Q)branding instead of beauty.
²⁵ Your men shall fall by the sword
    and your mighty men in battle.
²⁶ And ^(R)her gates shall lament and mourn;
    empty, she shall ^(S)sit on the ground.

⁵ Those who once feasted on delicacies
    perish in the streets;
^(A)those who were brought up in purple
    embrace ash heaps.

^6 (B)For the chastisement^[a] of the daughter of my people has been greater
    than the punishment^[b] of Sodom,
^(C)which was overthrown in a moment,
    and no hands were wrung for her.^[c]

⁷ Her princes were purer than snow,
    whiter than milk;
their bodies were more ruddy than coral,
    the beauty of their form^[d] was like sapphire.^[e]

^8 (D)Now their face is blacker than soot;
    they are not recognized in the streets;
their skin has shriveled on their bones;
    it has become as dry as wood.