Isaiah 3:1-7

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition

3 For now the Sovereign, the Lord of hosts,
    is taking away from Jerusalem and from Judah
support and staff—
    all support of bread
    and all support of water—^(A)
2 warrior and soldier,
    judge and prophet,
    diviner and elder,^(B)
3 captain of fifty
    and dignitary,
counselor and skillful magician
    and expert enchanter.
⁴ And I will make youths their princes,
    and children shall rule over them.^(C)
5 The people will be oppressed,
    everyone by another
    and everyone by a neighbor;
the youth will be insolent to the elder
    and the base to the honorable.^(D)

⁶ Someone will seize a relative,
    a member of the clan, saying,
“You have a cloak;
    you shall be our leader,
and this heap of ruins
    shall be under your rule.”^(E)
7 But the other will cry out on that day, saying,
“I will not be a healer;
    in my house there is neither bread nor cloak;
you shall not make me
    leader of the people.”^(F)