3 Observe this: The Lord God of Hosts
is about to remove from Jerusalem and from Judah
every kind of security:
the entire supply of bread and water,
² the hero and warrior,^(A)
the judge and prophet,
the fortune-teller and elder,
³ the commander of 50 and the dignitary,
the counselor, cunning magician,^[a] and necromancer.^[b]
4 “I will make youths their leaders,^(B)
and the unstable^[c] will govern them.”
⁵ The people will oppress one another,^(C)
man against man, neighbor against neighbor;
the youth will act arrogantly toward the elder,
and the worthless toward the honorable.
⁶ A man will even seize his brother
in his father’s house, saying:
“You have a cloak—you be our leader!
This heap of rubble will be under your control.”
⁷ On that day he will cry out, saying:
“I’m not a healer.
I don’t even have food or clothing in my house.
Don’t make me the leader of the people!”