6. For Thou hast rejected Thy people, the house of Jacob; for they
are filled with things from the east and are conjurors like the
Philistines; and with the children of foreigners they go hand in
hand. 7. And their land is filled with silver and gold, and there is
no end in their treasures; and their land is filled with horses, and
there is no end of their chariots. 8. And their land is filled with
---- idols; the work of their own hands they worship, that which
their own fingers have made.
9. Thus, then, men are bowed down, and lords are brought low; and
forgive them--no, that Thou wilt not. 10. Creep into the rock, and
bury thyself in the dust, before the terrible look of Jehovah, and
before the glory of His majesty. 11. The people's eyes of haughtiness
are humbled, and the pride of their lords is bowed down; and Jehovah,
He only, stands exalted in that day.
12. For Jehovah of hosts hath a day over everything towering and
lofty, and over everything exalted; and it becomes low. 13. As upon
all the cedars of Lebanon, the lofty and exalted, so upon all the
oaks of Bashan; 14. as upon all mountains, the lofty ones, so upon
all hills the exalted ones; 15. as upon every high tower, so upon
every fortified wall; 16. as upon all ships of Tarshish, so upon all
works of curiosity. 17. And the haughtiness of the people is bowed
down, and the pride of the lords brought low; and Jehovah, He alone,
stands exalted in that day.
18. And the idols pass utterly away. 19. And they will creep into
caves in the rocks, and cellars in the earth, before the terrible
look of Jehovah, and before the glory of His majesty, when He ariseth
to put the earth in terror. 20. In that day will a man cast away his
idols of gold; and his idols of silver, which they made for him to
worship, to the moles and to the bats; 21. to creep into the cavities
of the stone-blocks, and into the clefts of the rocks, before the
terrible look of Jehovah and before the glory of His majesty, when He
arises to put the earth in terror.
22. Oh then, let man go, in whose nose is a breath, for what is he to
be estimated at? III.--1. For, behold, the Lord, Jehovah of hosts,
takes away from Jerusalem and from Judah supporter and means of
support, every support of bread and every support of water; 2. hero
and man of war, judge and prophet, and soothsayer and elder;
3. captains of fifty, and the highly distinguished, and counsellors,
and masters in art, and those skilled in muttering. 4. And I will
give the boys for princes, and caprices shall rule over them. 5. And
the people oppress one another, one this and another that; the boy
breaks out violently upon the old man, and the despised upon the
honoured. 6. When a man shall take hold of his brother in his
father's house, Thou hast a coat, thou shalt be our ruler, and take
this ruin under thy hand; 7. he will cry out in that day, I do not
want to be a surgeon; there is neither bread nor coat in my house: ye
cannot make me the ruler of the people.
8. For Jerusalem is ruined and Judah fallen; because their tongue and
their doings are against Jehovah, to defy the eyes of His glory.
9. The look of their faces testifies against them, and their sin they
make known like Sodom, without concealing it: woe to their soul! for
they do themselves harm. 10. Say of the righteous, that it is well
with him; for they will enjoy the fruit of their doings. 11. Woe to
the wicked! it is ill; for what his hands have wrought will be done
to him. 12. My people, its oppressors are boys, and women rule over
it; my people, thy leaders are misleaders, who swallow up the way of
thy paths.
13. Jehovah has appeared to plead, and stands up to judge the
nations. 14. Jehovah will proceed to judgment with the elders of His
people, and its princes. And ye, ye have eaten of the vineyard; prey
of the suffering is in your houses. 15. What mean ye that ye crush My
people, and grind the face of the suffering? thus saith the Lord of
hosts.
16. Jehovah hath spoken: because the daughters of Zion are haughty,
and walk about with extended throat, and blinking with the eyes, walk
about with tripping gait, and tinkle with their foot-ornaments:
17. the Lord of all makes the crown of the daughters of Zion scabbed,
and Jehovah will uncover their shame. 18. On that day the Lord will
put away the show of the ankle-clasps, and of the head-bands, and of
the crescents; 19. the ear-rings, and the arm-chains, and the light
veils; 20. the diadems, and the stepping-chains, and the girdles, and
the smelling-bottles, and the amulets; 21. the finger-rings and the
nose-rings; 22. the gala dresses, and the sleeve-frocks, and the
wrappers, and the pockets; 23. the hand-mirrors, and the
Sindu-cloths, and the turbans, and the gauze mantles. 24. And instead
of balmy scent there will be mouldiness, and instead of artistic
ringlets a baldness, and instead of the dress-cloak a frock of
sack-cloth, branding instead of beauty. 25. Thy men fall by the
sword, and thy might in war. 26. Then will her gates lament and
mourn, and desolate is she and sits down upon the ground. IV.--1. And
seven women lay hold of one man in that day, saying, We will eat our
own bread, and wear our own clothes; only let thy name be named upon
us, take away our reproach.
2. In that day will the Sprout of Jehovah become an ornament and
glory, and the fruit of the land pride and splendour for the redeemed
of Israel. 3. And it will come to pass, whoever is left in Zion and
remains in Jerusalem, holy will he be called, all who are written
down for life in Jerusalem: 4. when the Lord shall have washed away
the filth of the daughters of Zion, and shall have purged away the
blood-guiltiness of Jerusalem from the midst thereof, by the spirit
of judgment and by the spirit of sifting. 5. And Jehovah creates over
every spot of mount Zion, and over its festal assemblies, a cloud by
day, and smoke, and the shining and flaming fire by night; for over
all the glory comes a canopy; 6. and it will be a booth for shade by
day and covert from storm and from rain.