He has stripped me of my glory, and taken the crown from my head.
He leads counselors away plundered, and makes the judges fools.
He leads princes away plundered, and overthrows the mighty.
I have sewed sackcloth upon my skin, and laid my strength in the dust.
But now they that are younger than I hold me in derision, whose fathers I would have disdained to have set with the dogs of my flock.
You have made void the covenant of your servant: you have profaned his crown by casting it to the ground.
You have broken down all his hedges; you have brought his strongholds to ruin.
You have made his glory to cease, and cast his throne down to the ground.
For riches are not forever: and does the crown endure to every generation?
But you shall be named the Priests of the LORD: men shall call you the Ministers of our God: you shall eat the riches of the Gentiles, and in their glory shall you boast yourselves.
The crown has fallen from our head: woe unto us, that we have sinned!
As for Ephraim, their glory shall fly away like a bird, no birth, no pregnancy, no conception.