1. The Lord, the Lord of hosts,will take away from Jerusalem and from JudahSupport and staff—all support of bread,all support of water:
2. Hero and warrior,judge and prophet, diviner and elder,
3. The captain of fifty and the nobleman,counselor, skilled magician, and expert charmer.
4. I will place boys as their princes;the fickle will govern them,
5. And the people will oppress one another,yes, each one the neighbor.The child will be insolent toward the elder,and the base toward the honorable.
6. When anyone seizes a brotherin their father’s house, saying,“You have clothes! Be our ruler,and take in hand this ruin!”—
7. He will cry out in that day:“I cannot be a healer,when there is neither bread nor clothing in my own house!You will not make me a ruler of the people!”
8. Jerusalem has stumbled, Judah has fallen;for their speech and deeds affront the Lord,a provocation in the sight of his majesty.
9. Their very look bears witness against them;they boast of their sin like Sodom,They do not hide it.Woe to them!They deal out evil to themselves.