1. For, behold, the Lord, Jehovah of hosts, doth take away from Jerusalem and from Judah stay and staff, the whole stay of bread, and the whole stay of water;
2. the mighty man, and the man of war; the judge, and the prophet, and the diviner, and the elder;
3. the captain of fifty, and the honorable man, and the counsellor, and the expert artificer, and the skilful enchanter.
4. And I will give children to be their princes, and babes shall rule over them.
5. And the people shall be oppressed, every one by another, and every one by his neighbor: the child shall behave himself proudly against the old man, and the base against the honorable.