1. FOR BEHOLD, the Lord, the Lord of hosts, is taking away from Jerusalem and from Judah the stay and the staff [every kind of prop], the whole stay of bread and the whole stay of water,
2. The mighty man and the man of war, the judge and the [professional] prophet, the one who foretells by divination and the old man,
3. The captain of fifty and the man of rank, the counselor and the expert craftsman and the skillful enchanter.
4. And I will make boys their princes, and with childishness shall they rule over them [with outrage instead of justice].
5. And the people shall be oppressed, each one by another, and each one by his neighbor; the child shall behave himself proudly and with insolence against the old man, and the lowborn against the honorable [person of rank].
6. When a man shall take hold of his brother in the house of his father, saying, You have a robe, you shall be our judge and ruler, and this heap of ruins shall be under your control–
7. In that day he will answer, saying, I will not be a healer and one who binds up; I am not a physician. For in my house is neither bread nor clothing; you shall not make me judge and ruler of the people.