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A bruised reed shall he not break, and the smoking flax shall he not quench: he shall bring forth judgment unto truth. |
And she has changed my judgments into wickedness more than the nations, and my statutes more than the countries that are round about her: for they have refused my judgments and my statutes, they have not walked in them. |
And you shall know that I am the Lord: for you have not walked in my statutes, neither executed my judgments, but have done after the manners of the heathen that are round about you. |
And I gave them my statutes, and showed them my judgments, which if a man do, he shall even live in them. |
And I will put my spirit within you, and cause you to walk in my statutes, and you shall keep my judgments, and do them. |
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The captain of fifty, and the honourable man, and the counsellor, and the cunning artificer, and the eloquent orator. |
And the people shall be oppressed, every one by another, and every one by his neighbour: the child shall behave himself proudly against the ancient, and the base against the honourable. |
When a man shall take hold of his brother of the house of his father, saying, You have clothing, be you our ruler, and let this ruin be under your hand: |
In that day shall he swear, saying, I will not be an healer; for in my house is neither bread nor clothing: make me not a ruler of the people. |
The show of their countenance does witness against them; and they declare their sin as Sodom, they hide it not. Woe unto their soul! for they have rewarded evil unto themselves. |
Woe unto the wicked! it shall be ill with him: for the reward of his hands shall be given him. |
The Lord will enter into judgment with the ancients of his people, and the princes thereof: for you have eaten up the vineyard; the spoil of the poor is in your houses.  This reminds me of the national debt which is the equivalent of one generation eating up the vinyard so that there is no fruit for the next. |
What mean you that you beat my people to pieces, and grind the faces of the poor? says the Lord of hosts. |
Moreover the Lord says, Because the daughters of Zion are haughty, and walk with stretched forth necks and wanton eyes, walking and mincing as they go, and making a tinkling with their feet: |
Therefore the Lord will strike with a scab the crown of the head of the daughters of Zion, and the Lord will discover their secret parts. |
In that day the Lord will take away the bravery of their tinkling ornaments about their feet, and their cauls, and their round tires like the moon, |
The chains, and the bracelets, and the mufflers, |
The bonnets, and the ornaments of the legs, and the headbands, and the tablets, and the earrings, |
The rings, and nose jewels, |
The changeable suits of apparel, and the mantles, and the wimples, and the crisping pins, |
The glasses, and the fine linen, and the hoods, and the vails.  There is much detail in these verses regarding outward displays of materialism. I suppose this is because of the seductiveness of riches relative to pride. |
And it shall come to pass, that instead of sweet smell there shall be stink; and instead of a girdle a rent; and instead of well set hair baldness; and instead of a stomacher a girding of sackcloth; and burning instead of beauty.  Man was created for the Lord. It is only in Him that we are sweet and beautiful. Those who are apart from the Lord are trapped in stench and ugliness. |
Your men shall fall by the sword, and your mighty in the war.  The best of fighting men and armaments will not avail when fighting for evil. |
And her gates shall lament and mourn; and she being desolate shall sit upon the ground. |
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