3:1 For, behold, the Lord, Jehovah of hosts, takes away from Jerusalem and from Judah support and staff, the whole support of bread and the whole support of water, 3:2 the mighty man and the man of war, the judge and the prophet and the diviner and the elder, 3:3 the captain of fifty and the honorable man and the counselor and the expert craftsman and the skillful enchanter.
3:4 And I will give sons to be their rulers and babes will rule over them. 3:5 And the people will be oppressed, every one by another and every one by his neighbor. The child himself will behave-proudly against the old man and the base against the honorable.
3:6 When a man will take hold of his brother in the house of his father, saying, You have clothing, be our ruler and let this ruin be under your hand, 3:7in that day he will lift up his voice, saying, I will not be a healer, for in my house is neither bread nor clothing. You* will not make me ruler of the people.
3:8 For Jerusalem is ruined and Judah has fallen, because their tongue and their practices are against Jehovah, to provoke the eyes of his glory. 3:9 The show of their countenance witnesses against them and they declare their sin as Sodom; they do not hide it. Woe to their soul! For they have done evil to themselves.
3:10 Say you* of the righteous, that it is well, for they will eat the fruit of their practices. 3:11 Woe to the wicked! It is ill with him, for what his hands have done will be done to him.
3:12 As for my people, children are their oppressors and women rule over them. O my people, those who advance you, are making you go-astray and destroy the way of your paths.
3:13 Jehovah stands up to contend and stands to judge the peoples. 3:14 Jehovah will enter into judgment with the elders of his people and the rulers of it. It is you* who have eaten up the vineyard; the spoil of a poor man is in your* houses. 3:15 What do you* mean that you* crush my people and grind the face of the poor? says the Lord, Jehovah of hosts.
3:16 Moreover Jehovah said, Because the daughters of Zion are haughty and walk with outstretched necks and wanton eyes, walking and mincing as they go and making a tinkling with their feet, 3:17 therefore the Lord will strike with a scab the crown of the head of the daughters of Zion and Jehovah will lay bare their secret parts.
3:18 In that day, the Lord will take away the beauty of their anklets and the hair nets and the crescents, 3:19 the pendants and the bracelets and the mufflers, 3:20 the bonnets and the ankle chains and the sashes and the perfume-boxes and the amulets,3:21 the rings and the nose-jewels, 3:22 the festival robes and the cloaks and the shawls and the satchels, 3:23the hand-mirrors and the fine linen and the turbans and the veils.
3:24 And it will happen, that instead of sweet spices there will be rottenness and instead of a belt, a rope and instead of well set hair, baldness and instead of a robe, a girding of sackcloth, branding instead of beauty. 3:25 Your men will fall by the sword and your mighty in the war. 3:26 And her gates will lament and mourn and she will be desolate and sit upon the ground.