And the Lord said to Samuel, “Obey the voice of the people in all that they say to you, (A)for they have not rejected you, (B)but they have rejected me from being king over them.

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And the Lord told him: “Listen(A) to all that the people are saying to you; it is not you they have rejected,(B) but they have rejected me as their king.(C)

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(A)And the people will oppress one another,
    every one his fellow
    and every one his neighbor;
the youth will be insolent to the elder,
    and the despised to the honorable.

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

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