3 commander and celebrity;counselor, clever craftsman, and cunning charmer.
4 I will make youths their commanders;mischief makers will rule over them.
5 The people will oppress each other,each one against the other, neighbor against neighbor.The young will bully the old,the rogue, and the respectable.
6 Someone will seize a family member, saying, "You have clothing! You be our leader!This mess will be your responsibility!"
7 Someone else will cry out on that day,"I’m no healer!I have neither food nor clothing in my house!Don’t make me the leader of the people!"
8 Yes, Jerusalem has stumbledand Judah has fallen,because the way they talk and act in word and deed insults the Lord, defying his brilliant glory.
9 Their bias in judgment gives them away;like Sodom, they display their sins in public.Doom to them, for they have done themselves in!