He has stripped from me my glory and taken the crown from my head.
You have made his splendor to cease and cast his throne to the ground.
When I went out to the gate of the city, when I prepared my seat in the square, the young men saw me and withdrew, and the aged rose and stood; the princes refrained from talking and laid their hand on their mouth; the voice of the nobles was hushed, and their tongue stuck to the roof of their mouth. When the ear heard, it called me blessed, and when the eye saw, it approved,
The crown has fallen from our head; woe to us, for we have sinned!
You have renounced the covenant with your servant; you have defiled his crown in the dust.
Ephraim's glory shall fly away like a bird— no birth, no pregnancy, no conception!
but you shall be called the priests of the Lord; they shall speak of you as the ministers of our God; you shall eat the wealth of the nations, and in their glory you shall boast.
Be not afraid when a man becomes rich, when the glory of his house increases. For when he dies he will carry nothing away; his glory will not go down after him.
“But now they laugh at me, men who are younger than I, whose fathers I would have disdained to set with the dogs of my flock.
my glory fresh with me, and my bow ever new in my hand.’ “Men listened to me and waited and kept silence for my counsel.
He leads counselors away stripped, and judges he makes fools.
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