1 For behold! The Lord, Adonai-Tzva’ot, takes from Jerusalem and from Judah supply and support, every supply of bread and every supply of water,
2 mighty man and man of war, judge, and prophet, fortune-teller and elder,
3 captain of 50 and man of rank, counselor, crafty magician and cunning charmer.
4 I will set children as their rulers. Capricious ones will govern them.
5 The people will oppress one another— each one by his fellow, each one by his neighbor. The child will be insolent to the aged, and dishonorable to the honorable.
6 When a man takes hold of his brother in the house of his father, saying: “You have a cloak, you be our ruler! This ruin is under your charge.”
7 In that day he will protest, saying: “I’m no healer! In my house is no bread or cloak. Don’t make me a ruler of people!”