1. See now, the Lord, the Lord Almighty, is about to take from Jerusalem and Judah both supply and support: all supplies of food and all supplies of water,
2. the hero and the warrior, the judge and the prophet, the diviner and the elder,
3. the captain of fifty and the man of rank, the counselor, skilled craftsman and clever enchanter.
4. “I will make mere youths their officials; children will rule over them.”
5. People will oppress each other— man against man, neighbor against neighbor. The young will rise up against the old, the nobody against the honored.