13 The LORD standeth up to plead, and standeth to judge the peoples.
14 The LORD will enter into judgment with the elders of his people, and the princes thereof; and ye—ye have eaten up vineyard; the spoil of the poor is in your houses.
15 What mean ye, that ye crush my people, and grind the face of the poor? saith the Lord GOD of Hosts.
16 And the LORD said, Because the daughters of Zion are haughty, and walk with throat stretched out and staring eyes; tripping along they go, and making a tinkling with their feet:
17 Therefore the Lord will smite with a scab the-crown of the head of the daughters of Zion, and the LORD will lay bare their secret parts.
18 In that day the Lord will take away the bravery of the anklets, and headbands, and crescents,
19 The pendants, and the bracelets, and the veils,
20 The head-tires, and the stepping chains, and the sashes, and the scent-boxes, and the amulets,
21 The (seal) rings, and nose-jewels,
22 The festal robes, and the mantles, and the shawls, and the satchels,
23 The glasses, and the linen shifts, and the turbans, and the scarfs.
24 And it shall be, instead of sweet spices there shall be rottenness; and instead of a girdle a rope; and instead of curled hair baldness; and instead of a stomacher a girding of sackcloth; brandinginstead of beauty.
25 Thy men shall fall by the sword, and thy might in the war.
26 And her gates shall lament and mourn; and she shall be emptied; on the ground shall she sit.
IV. 1 And in that day seven women shall take hold of one man, saying, We will eat our own bread, and wear our own apparel; only let thy name be called upon us; take away our reproach.
2 In that day. shall the sprout of the LORD be for ornament and for glory, and the fruit of the earth shall be for pride and for beauty to them that are escaped of Israel.
3 And it shall be, that he that is left in Zion, and remaineth in Jerusalem, shall be called holy, every one that is written down for living in Jerusalem.
4 When the Lord shall have washed away the filth of the daughters of Zion, and shall have purged away the blood of Jerusalem from the midst of her by the spirit of judgment, and by the spirit of burning.
5 And the LORD will create upon every habitation of mount Zion, and upon her assemblies, a cloud by day, and smoke, and the shining of a flaming fire by night; for upon all the glory is a canopy,
6 And there shall be a tabernacle for a shadow in the day-time from the heat, and for a refuge and for a covert from storm and from rain.