The Koine Bible

Behold now, the Lord, the Lord of hosts, will remove from Judea and from Jerusalem the mighty man and the mighty woman, strength of bread and strength of water

a giant and a strong man and a warrior and a judge and a prophet and a diviner and an elder

and a captain of fifty and an admirable counselor and a wise architect and a discerning hearer

And I will appoint youths as their rulers, and mockers shall dominate them.

And the people will fall, man against man, and man against his neighbor; the child will stumble against the elder, the dishonored against the honored.

For a man will take hold of his brother, or of the housemate of his father, saying, You have clothing; become our ruler, and let my food be under you.

And answering he will say in that day, I will not be your leader, for there is not in my house bread nor clothing; I will not be leader of this people.

For Jerusalem has been abandoned, and Judea has fallen, and their tongues are with lawlessness, being disobedient in the things against the Lord, because now their glory has been brought low

And the shame of their face has stood against them, but they have declared their sin as that of Sodom, and they have made it known. Woe to their soul, because they have taken counsel, an evil counsel against themselves.

Saying, Let us bind the righteous, for he is troublesome to us; therefore they shall eat the fruits of their works.

Woe to the lawless one; evil according to the works of his hands shall happen to him

My people, your exactors strip you, and your creditors rule over you; my people, your blessers lead you astray, and they disturb the path of your feet.

But now the Lord will stand for judgment, and he will set his people for judgment

The Lord himself will come into judgment with the elders of the people and with its rulers: But you, why have you burned up my vineyard, and the plunder of the poor is in your houses?

Why do you wrong my people and shame the face of the poor?

Thus says the Lord: because the daughters of Zion have been exalted and have walked with raised neck and with motions of the eyes and in the gait of the feet, at the same time dragging their tunics and at the same time playing with their feet.

And God will humble the ruling daughters of Zion, and the Lord will uncover their form

In that day the Lord will also take away the glory of their clothing and their ornaments and the braided hair and the necklaces and the crescents

and the pendant earrings and the ornaments of their face

and the finery of the adornment of glory, and the armlets, and the bracelets, and the hair-plaiting, and the pendants, and the rings, and the earrings

and the purple garments and the half-purple garments

and the wraps, the ones according to the house, and the transparent Laconic ones

and the linen garments and the hyacinth-colored garments and the scarlet ones and the fine linen woven together with gold and hyacinth and the summer robes, lying down

And it shall be, instead of sweet fragrance, dust, and instead of a belt, you shall gird yourself with a rope, and instead of the adornment of the head, of gold, baldness you shall have, because of your works, and instead of the tunic of purple, you shall gird sackcloth

And your most beautiful son, whom you love, shall fall by the sword, and your strong men shall fall by the sword.

And the coffers of your adornment shall be humbled and shall mourn, and you shall be left alone, and you shall be brought down to the ground.