1. For behold, the Lord, Jehovah of hosts, will take away from Jerusalem and from Judah stay and staff, the whole stay of bread, and the whole stay of water,
2. the mighty man and the man of war, the judge and the prophet, and the diviner and the elder,
3. the captain of fifty, and the honourable man, and the counsellor, and the clever among artificers, and the one versed in enchantments.
4. And I will appoint youths as their princes, and children shall rule over them.
5. And the people shall be oppressed one by the other, and each by his neighbour; the child will be insolent against the elder, and the base against the honourable.
6. When a man shall take hold of his brother, in his father's house, and shall say: Thou hast clothing; be our chief, and let this ruin be under thy hand;