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.
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.
“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.
He leads counselors away stripped, and judges he makes fools.
He leads priests away stripped and overthrows the mighty.
I have sewed sackcloth upon my skin and have laid my strength in the dust.
for riches do not last forever; and does a crown endure to all generations?
You have breached all his walls; you have laid his strongholds in ruins.