3 The captain of fifty and the honorable man,The counselor and the skillful artisan,And the expert enchanter.
4 “I will give children to be their princes,And babes shall rule over them.
5 The people will be oppressed,Every one by another and every one by his neighbor;The child will be insolent toward the elder,And the base toward the honorable.”
6 When a man takes hold of his brotherIn the house of his father, saying,“You have clothing;You be our ruler,And let these ruins be under your power,”
7 In that day he will protest, saying,“I cannot cure your ills,For in my house is neither food nor clothing;Do not make me a ruler of the people.”
8 For Jerusalem stumbled,And Judah is fallen,Because their tongue and their doingsAre against the Lord,To provoke the eyes of His glory.
9 The look on their countenance witnesses against them,And they declare their sin as Sodom;They do not hide it.Woe to their soul!For they have brought evil upon themselves.