¹² On that day the Lord God of hosts
    called for weeping and mourning,
    for baldness and putting on sackcloth,^(A)

²⁹ Cut off your hair and throw it away;
    raise a lamentation on the bare heights,^[a]
for the Lord has rejected and forsaken
    the generation that provoked his wrath.^(A)

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;^(A)
17 the Lord will afflict with scabs
    the heads of the daughters of Zion,
    and the Lord will lay bare their scalps and heads.

²⁴ Instead of perfume there will be a stench;
    and instead of a sash, a rope;
and instead of well-styled hair, baldness;
    and instead of a rich robe, a binding of sackcloth;
    instead of beauty, shame.^[a](E)
25 Your men shall fall by the sword
    and your warriors in battle.^(F)
26 And her gates shall lament and mourn;
    desolate, she shall sit upon the ground.^(G)

⁵ Those who feasted on delicacies
    perish in the streets;
those who were brought up in purple
    cling to ash heaps.

⁶ For the chastisement of my people has been greater
    than the punishment of Sodom,
which was overthrown in a moment,
    though no hand was laid on it.^[a](A)

⁷ Her princes were purer than snow,
    whiter than milk;
their bodies were more ruddy than coral,
    their form cut like sapphire.^[b](B)

⁸ Now their visage 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.^(C)

²⁶ O daughter of my people, put on sackcloth
    and roll in ashes;
make mourning as for an only child,
    most bitter lamentation,
for suddenly the destroyer
    will come upon us.^(A)