therefore the Lord brings sores on the crown of the head of the women of Zion, and the LORD will make their scalps bald."

For the waters of Nimrim will be desolate; for the grass has withered away, the tender grass fails, there is no green thing.

It will be like when the harvester gathers the wheat, and his arm reaps the grain. Yes, it will be like when one gleans grain in the valley of Rephaim.

You are my threshing, and the grain of my floor." That which I have heard from the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, I have declared to you.

Woe to the crown of pride of the drunkards of Ephraim, and to the fading flower of his glorious beauty, which is on the head of the fertile valley of those who are overcome with wine.

The crown of pride of the drunkards of Ephraim will be trodden under foot.

In that day, the LORD of hosts will become a crown of glory, and a diadem of beauty, to the residue of his people;

until I come and take you away to a land like your own land, a land of grain and new wine, a land of bread and vineyards.

Therefore their inhabitants had little power. They were dismayed and confounded. They were like the grass of the field, and like the green herb, like the grass on the housetops, and like a field before its crop has grown.

I chattered like a swallow or a crane. I moaned like a dove. My eyes weaken looking upward. Lord, I am oppressed. Be my security."

you who inflame yourselves among the oaks, under every green tree; who kill the children in the valleys, under the clefts of the rocks?

You shall also be a crown of beauty in the hand of the LORD, and a royal diadem in the hand of your God.

The LORD has sworn by his right hand, and by the arm of his strength, "Surely I will no more give your grain to be food for your enemies; and foreigners shall not drink your new wine, for which you have labored: