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Woe unto their soul! for they have done evil unto themselves." },{ "n": 10, "refId": "ISA-3:10", "verseRef": "Isa.3.10", "text": "Say ye of the righteous, that [it shall be] well [with him]; for they shall eat the fruit of their doings." },{ "n": 11, "refId": "ISA-3:11", "verseRef": "Isa.3.11", "text": "Woe unto the wicked! [it shall be] ill [with him]; for what his hands have done shall be done unto him." },{ "n": 12, "refId": "ISA-3:12", "verseRef": "Isa.3.12", "text": "As for my people, children are their oppressors, and women rule over them. O my people, they that lead thee cause thee to err, and destroy the way of thy paths." },{ "n": 13, "refId": "ISA-3:13", "verseRef": "Isa.3.13", "text": "Jehovah standeth up to contend, and standeth to judge the peoples." },{ "n": 14, "refId": "ISA-3:14", "verseRef": "Isa.3.14", "text": "Jehovah will enter into judgment with the elders of his people, and the princes thereof: It is ye that have eaten up the vineyard; the spoil of the poor is in your houses:" },{ "n": 15, "refId": "ISA-3:15", "verseRef": "Isa.3.15", "text": "what mean ye that ye crush my people, and grind the face of the poor? saith the Lord, Jehovah of hosts." },{ "n": 16, "refId": "ISA-3:16", "verseRef": "Isa.3.16", "text": "Moreover Jehovah said, Because the daughters of Zion are haughty, and walk with outstretched necks and wanton eyes, walking and mincing as they go, and making a tinkling with their feet;" },{ "n": 17, "refId": "ISA-3:17", "verseRef": "Isa.3.17", "text": "therefore the Lord will smite with a scab the crown of the head of the daughters of Zion, and Jehovah will lay bare their secret parts." },{ "n": 18, "refId": "ISA-3:18", "verseRef": "Isa.3.18", "text": "In that day the Lord will take away the beauty of their anklets, and the cauls, and the crescents;" },{ "n": 19, "refId": "ISA-3:19", "verseRef": "Isa.3.19", "text": "the pendants, and the bracelets, and the mufflers;" },{ "n": 20, "refId": "ISA-3:20", "verseRef": "Isa.3.20", "text": "the headtires, and the ankle chains, and the sashes, and the perfume-boxes, and the amulets;" },{ "n": 21, "refId": "ISA-3:21", "verseRef": "Isa.3.21", "text": "the rings, and the nose-jewels;" },{ "n": 22, "refId": "ISA-3:22", "verseRef": "Isa.3.22", "text": "the festival robes, and the mantles, and the shawls, and the satchels;" },{ "n": 23, "refId": "ISA-3:23", "verseRef": "Isa.3.23", "text": "the hand-mirrors, and the fine linen, and the turbans, and the veils." },{ "n": 24, "refId": "ISA-3:24", "verseRef": "Isa.3.24", "text": "And it shall come to pass, that instead of sweet spices there shall be rottenness; and instead of a girdle, a rope; and instead of well set hair, baldness; and instead of a robe, a girding of sackcloth; branding instead of beauty." },{ "n": 25, "refId": "ISA-3:25", "verseRef": "Isa.3.25", "text": "Thy men shall fall by the sword, and thy mighty in the war." },{ "n": 26, "refId": "ISA-3:26", "verseRef": "Isa.3.26", "text": "And her gates shall lament and mourn; and she shall be desolate and sit upon the ground." } ] }, "links": { "self": "/v1/library/books/isaiah/chapters/3", "book": "/v1/library/books/isaiah/", "chapters": "/v1/library/books/isaiah/chapters/", "library": "/v1/library/", "schema": "/v1/schema/book/" } }