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³⁰So then, when you have been devastated, what will you do? Though you will clothe yourself with scarlet, though you will adorn yourself with a gold necklace and tint your eyes with cosmetics, you will be dressing yourself up in vain. Your lovers have spurned you; they will be seeking your life.

³⁰And Jehu went into Jezreel. But Jezebel, hearing of his arrival, painted her eyes with cosmetics, and adorned her head. And she watched through a window,

³For you, there should be no unnecessary adornment of the hair, or surrounding with gold, or the wearing of ornate clothing. ⁴Instead, you should be a hidden person of the heart, with the incorruptibility of a quiet and meek spirit, rich in the sight of God.

⁴⁰They sent for men who were coming from far away, to whom they had sent a messenger. And so, behold, they arrived, those for whom you washed yourself, and smeared cosmetics around your eyes, and were adorned with feminine ornaments.

¹⁶And the Lord said: Because the daughters of Zion have been lifted up, and have walked with extended necks and winking eyes, because they have continued on, walking noisily and advancing with a pretentious stride, ¹⁷the Lord will make the heads of the daughters of Zion bald, and the Lord will strip them of the locks of their hair. ¹⁸In that day, the Lord will take away their decorative shoes, ¹⁹and the little moons and chains, and the necklaces and bracelets, and the hats, ²⁰and the ornaments for their hair, and the anklets, and the touches of myrrh and little bottles of perfumes, and the earrings, ²¹and the rings, and the jewels hanging on their foreheads,

⁹Similarly also, women should be dressed fittingly, adorning themselves with compunction and restraint, and not with plaited hair, nor gold, nor pearls, nor costly attire,

³⁰Charm is false, and beauty is vain. The woman who fears the Lord, the same shall be praised.

²⁵Let not your heart desire her beauty; do not be captivated by her winks.

¹²But, when the time came for each in the line of young women to go in to the king, after everything had been completed concerning feminine grooming, the twelfth month had been reached, to the extent that for six months they were anointed with oil of myrrh, and for another six months they used certain types of makeup and perfumes.

²⁸You shall not cut your flesh for the dead, and you shall not make other figures or marks on yourself. I am the Lord.

²⁴So may they guard you from an evil woman, and from the flattering tongue of the outsider. ²⁵Let not your heart desire her beauty; do not be captivated by her winks. ²⁶For the price of a prostitute is only one loaf. Yet the woman seizes the precious soul of a man.

¹⁰Chorus to Bride: We will fashion for you chains of gold, accented with reddened silver.

⁵A woman shall not be clothed with manly apparel, nor shall a man make use of feminine apparel. For whoever does these things is abominable with God.

⁹Similarly also, women should be dressed fittingly, adorning themselves with compunction and restraint, and not with plaited hair, nor gold, nor pearls, nor costly attire, ¹⁰but in a manner proper for women who are professing piety by means of good works.