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| 1 For behold, the Lord, Jehovah of hosts, will take away from Jerusalem and from Judah stay and staff, the whole stay of bread, and the whole stay of water, |
Whole stay of bread – During the Gospel age the poor Jews have been famishing. They have been without any communication with God. R5031:6; Q269:7
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| 2 the mighty man and the man of war, the judge and the prophet, and the diviner and the elder, |
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| 3 the captain of fifty, and the honourable man, and the counsellor, and the clever among artificers, and the one versed in enchantments. |
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| 4 And I will appoint youths as their princes, and children shall rule over them. |
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| 5 And the people shall be oppressed one by the other, and each by his neighbour; the child will be insolent against the elder, and the base against the honourable. |
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| 6 When a man shall take hold of his brother, in his father's house, and shall say: Thou hast clothing; be our chief, and let this ruin be under thy hand; |
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| 7 he will lift up his hand in that day, saying, I cannot be a healer, and in my house there is neither bread nor clothing; ye shall not make me a chief of the people. |
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| 8 For Jerusalem stumbleth and Judah falleth, because their tongue and their doings are against Jehovah, to provoke the eyes of his glory. |
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| 9 The look of their face doth witness against them, and they declare their sin as Sodom: they hide it not. Woe unto their soul! for they have brought evil upon themselves. |
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| 10 Say ye of the righteous that it shall be well with him, for they shall eat the fruit of their doings. |
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| 11 Woe unto the wicked! it shall be ill with him, because the desert of his hands shall be rendered unto him. |
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| 12 As for my people, children are their oppressors, and women rule over them. My people! they that guide thee mislead thee, and destroy the way of thy paths. |
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| 13 Jehovah setteth himself to plead, and standeth to judge the peoples. |
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| 14 Jehovah will enter into judgment with the elders of his people and their princes, saying: It is ye that have eaten up the vineyard: the spoil of the poor is in your houses. |
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| 15 What mean ye that ye crush my people, and grind the faces of the afflicted? saith the Lord, Jehovah of hosts. |
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| 16 And Jehovah said, Because the daughters of Zion are haughty, and walk with stretched-out neck and wanton eyes, and go along mincing, and making a tinkling with their feet; |
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| 17 therefore the Lord will make bald the crown of the head of the daughters of Zion, and Jehovah will lay bare their secret parts. |
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| 18 In that day the Lord will take away the ornament of anklets, and the little suns and crescents, |
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| 19 the pearl-drops, and the bracelets, and the veils, |
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| 20 the head-dresses, and the stepping chains, and the girdles, and the scent-boxes, and the amulets; |
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| 21 the finger-rings, and the nose-rings; |
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| 22 the festival-robes, and the tunics, and the mantles, and the wallets; |
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| 23 the mirrors, and the fine linen bodices, and the turbans, and the flowing veils. |
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| 24 And it shall come to pass, instead of perfume there shall be rottenness; and instead of a girdle, a rope; and instead of well-set hair, baldness; and instead of a robe of display, a girding of sackcloth; brand instead of beauty. |
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| 25 Thy men shall fall by the sword, and thy mighty in the fight; |
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| 26 and her gates shall lament and mourn; and, stripped, she shall sit upon the ground. |
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