15. What gives you the right to hurt my people? What gives you the right to push the faces of the poor into the dirt?” The Lord GOD All-Powerful said this.
16. The Lord says, “The women in Zion have become very proud. They walk around with their heads in the air, acting like they are better than other people. They flirt with their eyes and make tinkling sounds with their ankle bracelets as they take their quick little steps.”
17. The Lord will put sores on the heads of those women in Zion. The Lord will make their heads bald.
18. Then the Lord will take away everything they are proud of: the beautiful ankle bracelets, the necklaces that look like the sun and the moon,
19. the earrings, bracelets, and veils,
20. the scarves, the ankle chains, the cloth belts worn around their waists, the bottles of perfume, the charms,
21. the signet rings, and the nose rings,
22. the fine dresses, robes, veils, and purses,
23. the mirrors, linen dresses, turbans, and long shawls.
24. Those women now have sweet-smelling perfume, but it will get moldy and stink. Now they wear belts, but then they will have only ropes to wear. Now they have their hair fixed in fancy ways, but then their heads will be shaved—they will have no hair. Now they have party dresses, but then they will have only mourning clothes. They have beauty marks on their faces now, but then they will have another mark. It will be a mark burned into their skin to show that they are slaves.
25. Your men will be killed with swords. Your heroes will die in war.
26. There will be crying and sadness in the meeting places by the city gates. Jerusalem will sit there empty, like a woman who has lost everything to thieves and robbers and now just sits on the ground and cries.