Leaders of Judah and Jerusalem
1 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,
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mighty warrior and man of war, judge and prophet, and diviner and elder,
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captain of fifty and the honorable men of rank, and counselor and skillful magicians and skillful enchanter.
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And I will make boys their princes, and children shall rule over them.
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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.
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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!"
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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!"
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For Jerusalem has stumbled, and Judah has fallen because their speech and their deeds [are] against Yahweh, defying the eyes of his glory.
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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.
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Tell [the] innocent that [it is] good for they shall eat the fruit of their deeds.
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Woe to the wicked! [It is] bad! For what is done [by] his hands will be done to him.
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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.
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Yahweh takes his stand to conduct a legal case and takes his stand to judge [the] peoples.
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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!
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{Why} do you crush my people and grind [the] face of [the] poor?" {declares}
the Lord Yahweh of hosts.