My people--children are their oppressors, and women rule over them. My people, your leaders are misleading [you], and they confuse the course of your paths.

And I will make boys their princes, and children shall rule over them.

And the people will be oppressed {by each other} and a man by his neighbor. The boy will act arrogantly toward the elder, and the dishonorable toward the honorable.

Indeed, a man will seize his brother [in] the house of his father: "{You have a cloak}; you shall be a leader for us, and this heap of ruins [shall be] under your hand!"

The look on their faces testifies against them and they declare their sin like Sodom; they do not hide [it]. Woe to their soul! For they have dealt out evil to themselves.

He will lift up [his voice] on that day, saying, "I will not be a healer; in my house there is no bread and there is no cloak. You shall not make me [the] leader of [the] people!"

For Jerusalem has stumbled, and Judah has fallen because their speech and their deeds [are] against Yahweh, defying the eyes of his glory.

Tell [the] innocent that [it is] good for they shall eat the fruit of their deeds.

And Yahweh said: "Because the daughters of Zion are haughty, and they walk [with] outstretched neck, and they give flirting glances [with their] eyes, {mincing along as they go}, and {with their feet they rattle their bangles},

Yahweh enters into judgment with the elders of his people and its princes. "And you! You have devoured the vineyard; the spoil of the poor [is] in your houses!

Woe to the wicked! [It is] bad! For what is done [by] his hands will be done to him.

For look, the Lord Yahweh of hosts [is] removing {every source of support} from Jerusalem and from Judah: all of [the] supplies of bread and all of [the] supplies of water,

Yahweh takes his stand to conduct a legal case and takes his stand to judge [the] peoples.

the Lord will make the heads of the daughters of Zion scabby, and Yahweh will lay their foreheads bare."

{Why} do you crush my people and grind [the] face of [the] poor?" {declares} the Lord Yahweh of hosts.

the headdresses and the armlets and the sashes, and the {perfume boxes} and the amulets,

In that day the Lord will take away the finery of the anklets and the headbands and the crescent necklaces,

the pendants and the bracelets and the veils,

the signet rings and the nose rings,

And this shall happen: There will be a stench instead of perfume, and a rope instead of a sash, and baldness instead of a well-set hairdo, and a clothing wrap of sackcloth instead of a rich robe, branding instead of beauty.

the festal robes and the mantles, and the cloaks and the handbags,

mighty warrior and man of war, judge and prophet, and diviner and elder,

and the mirrors and the linen garments, and the turbans and the wraps.

captain of fifty and the honorable men of rank, and counselor and skillful magicians and skillful enchanter.

Your men shall fall by the sword, and your warriors in battle.

And her gates shall lament and mourn, and she shall be banished; she shall sit upon the ground.