^{1 Ref} For, lo, the Lord, Jehovah of Hosts, Is turning aside from Jerusalem, And from Judah, stay and staff, Every stay of bread, and every stay of water.

^{2 Ref} Hero and man of war, judge and prophet, And diviner and elder,

^{3 Ref} Head of fifty, and accepted of faces, And counsellor, and the wise of artificers, And the intelligent of charmers.

^{4 Ref} And I have made youths their heads, And sucklings rule over them.

^{5 Ref} And the people hath exacted -- man upon man, Even a man on his neighbour, Enlarge themselves do the youths against the aged, And the lightly esteemed against the honoured.

^{6 Ref} When one layeth hold on his brother, `Of' the house of his father, `by' the garment, `Come, a ruler thou art to us, And this ruin `is' under thy hand.'

^{7 Ref} He lifteth up, in that day, saying: `I am not a binder up, And in my house is neither bread nor garment, Ye do not make me a ruler of the people.'