6. Because Thou hast forsaken Thy people, the house of Jacob, because
they are replenished from the east and (full of) soothsayers like the
Philistines, and with the children of strangers they abound. 7. And
their land is filled with silver and gold, and there is no end to
their treasures; and their land is filled with horses, and there is
no end to their treasures. 8. And their land is filled with idols, to
the work of their hands they bow down, to that which their fingers
have made.
9. And so the mean man is bowed down, and the great man is brought
low, and do not Thou forgive them. 10. Go into the rock, and hide
thee in the dust, from before the terror of Jehovah and from the
glory of His majesty. 11. The eyes of the loftiness of men are cast
down, and the height of man is brought low, and Jehovah alone is
exalted in that day.
12. For there is a day to Jehovah of hosts upon everything high and
lofty, and upon everything exalted, and it shall come down; 13. and
upon all the cedars of Lebanon, that are high and lofty, and on all
the oaks of Bashan; 14. and upon all the high mountains, and upon all
the elevated hills; 15. and upon every high tower, and upon every
fenced wall; 16. and upon all ships of Tarshish, and upon all images
of desire. 17. And (thus) shall the loftiness of man be cast down,
and the pride of man be brought low, and Jehovah alone exalted in
that day [or, so sinks the loftiness of man and bows the pride of
man, and Jehovah alone is exalted in that day].
18. And as for the idols the whole shall pass away. 19. And they
shall enter into the caves of the rocks and into the holes of the
earth, from before the terror of Jehovah and the glory of His majesty
when He arises to terrify the earth. 20. And that day shall man cast
his idols of silver and his idols of gold, which they have made for
him to worship, to the moles and the bats; 21. to go into the clefts
of the rocks, and into the fissures of the cliffs, from before the
terror of Jehovah, and from the glory of His majesty, in His arising
to terrify the earth.
22. Cease ye from man, whose breath is in his nostrils, for wherein
is he to be accounted of? III.--1. For, behold, the Lord, Jehovah of
hosts, is taking away from Jerusalem and from Judah the stay and the
staff, the whole stay of bread, and the whole stay of water; 2. hero
and warrior, judge and prophet, and diviner and elder; 3. the chief
of fifty, and the favourite, and the counsellor, and the skilful
artificer, and the expert enchanter. 4. And I will give children to
be their rulers, and childish things shall govern them. 5. And the
people shall act tyrannically, man against man, and man against his
fellow. They shall be insolent, the youth to the old man, and the
mean man to the noble. 6. When a man shall take hold of his brother
in his father's house (saying), Thou hast raiment, a ruler shalt thou
be to us, and this ruin under thy hand; 7. in that day he shall lift
up his voice saying, I will not be a healer, and in my house is no
bread, and there is no clothing: ye shall not make me a ruler of the
people.
8. For Jerusalem totters and Judah falls, (because) their tongues and
their doings are against Jehovah, to resist His glorious eyes. 9. The
expression of their countenance testifies against them, and their
sin, like Sodom, they disclose, they hide it not. Woe unto their
soul! for they have done evil to themselves. 10. Say ye of the
righteous that it shall be well, for the fruits of their doings they
shall eat. 11. Woe unto the wicked, ill, for the thing done by his
hands shall be done to him. 12. My people! their oppressors are
childish, and women rule over them. My people! thy leaders are
seducers, and the way of thy paths they swallow up.
13. Jehovah standeth up to plead, and is standing to judge the
nations. 14. Jehovah will enter into judgment with the elders of His
people and the chiefs thereof. And ye (even ye) have consumed the
vineyard, the spoil of the poor is in your houses. 15. What mean ye
that ye crush My people, and grind the faces of the poor? saith the
Lord Jehovah of hosts.
16. And Jehovah said, Because the daughters of Zion are lofty, and
walk with outstretched neck, and gazing with their eyes, and with a
tripping walk they walk, and with their feet they make a tinkling,
17. therefore the Lord will make bald the crown of the daughters of
Zion, and their nakedness Jehovah will uncover. 18. In that day the
Lord will take away the bravery of the ankle-bands, and the cauls,
and the crescents, 19. the pendants, and the bracelets, and the
veils, 20. the caps, the ankle-chains, and the girdles, and the
houses of breath, and the amulets, 21. the rings, and the
nose-jewels, 22. the holiday dresses, and the mantles, and the robes,
and the purses, 23. the mirrors, and the tunics, and the turbans, and
the veils. 24. And it shall be (that) instead of perfume there shall
be stench, and instead of a girdle a rope, and instead of braided
work baldness, and instead of a full robe a girding of sackcloth,
burning instead of beauty. 25. Thy men by the sword shall fall, and
thy strength in war. 26. And her gates shall lament and mourn, and
being emptied she shall sit upon the ground. IV.--1. And in that day
seven women shall lay hold on one man, saying, We will eat our own
bread, and wear our own apparel; only let thy name be called upon us,
take thou away our reproach.
2. In that day shall the Branch of Jehovah be for honour and for
glory, and the fruit of the earth for sublimity and beauty, to the
escaped of Israel. 3. And it shall be that the left in Zion and the
spared in Jerusalem shall be called holy, every one written to life
in Jerusalem, 4. when the Lord shall have washed away the filth of
the daughters of Zion, and the bloodguiltiness of Jerusalem shall
purge from its midst by a spirit of judgment and a spirit of burning.
5. And Jehovah will create over the whole extent of mount Zion, and
over her assembles, a cloud by day, and smoke and the brightness of a
burning fire by night; for over all the glory _there shall be_ a
covering; 6. and there shall be a shelter for a shadow by day from
heat, and a covert and for a hiding place from storm and from rain.