Isaiah 3:24-26

New International Reader's Version

²⁴ Instead of smelling sweet,
    the women will smell bad.
Instead of wearing belts,
    they will wear ropes.
Instead of having beautiful hair,
    they won’t have any hair at all.
Instead of wearing fine clothes,
    they’ll wear rough clothes to show how sad they are.
Instead of being beautiful,
    on their bodies they’ll have the marks of their owners.
²⁵ Jerusalem, your men will be killed by swords.
    Your soldiers will die in battle.
²⁶ The city of Zion will be very sad.
    Like a widow, she will lose everything.
    She will sit on the ground and mourn.