Isaiah 3:1-7

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Judgment on Jerusalem and Judah

3 See now, the Lord,
    the Lord Almighty,
is about to take from Jerusalem and Judah
    both supply and support:^(A)
all supplies of food^(B) and all supplies of water,^(C)
²    the hero and the warrior,^(D)
the judge and the prophet,
    the diviner^(E) and the elder,^(F)
³the captain of fifty^(G) and the man of rank,^(H)
    the counselor, skilled craftsman^(I) and clever enchanter.^(J)

⁴“I will make mere youths their officials;
children will rule over them.”^(K)

⁵People will oppress each other—
man against man, neighbor against neighbor.^(L)
The young will rise up against the old,
the nobody against the honored.

⁶A man will seize one of his brothers
    in his father’s house, and say,
“You have a cloak, you be our leader;
    take charge of this heap of ruins!”
⁷But in that day^(M) he will cry out,
    “I have no remedy.^(N)
I have no food^(O) or clothing in my house;
    do not make me the leader of the people.”^(P)

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2 Timothy 3:1-7

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3 But mark this: There will be terrible times in the last days.^(A) ²People will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money,^(B) boastful, proud,^(C) abusive,^(D) disobedient to their parents,^(E) ungrateful, unholy, ³without love, unforgiving, slanderous, without self-control, brutal, not lovers of the good, ⁴treacherous,^(F) rash, conceited,^(G) lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God— ⁵having a form of godliness^(H) but denying its power. Have nothing to do with such people.^(I)

⁶They are the kind who worm their way^(J) into homes and gain control over gullible women, who are loaded down with sins and are swayed by all kinds of evil desires, ⁷always learning but never able to come to a knowledge of the truth.^(K)

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