3 Note this: The Lord God of Armies
is about to remove from Jerusalem and from Judah
every kind of security:
the entire supply of bread and water,
² heroes and warriors,^(A)
judges and prophets,
fortune-tellers and elders,
³ commanders of fifty and dignitaries,
counselors, cunning magicians,^[a] and necromancers.^[b]
4 “I will make youths their leaders,^(B)
and unstable rulers^[c] will govern them.”
⁵ The people will oppress one another,^(C)
man against man, neighbor against neighbor;
the young will act arrogantly toward the old,
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!”