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The people will treat each other harshly;
men will oppose each other;
neighbors will fight.[a]
Youths will proudly defy the elderly
and riffraff will challenge those who were once respected.[b]

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 3:5 tn Heb “man against man, and a man against his neighbor.”
  2. Isaiah 3:5 tn Heb “and those lightly esteemed those who are respected.” The verb רָהַב (rahav) does double duty in the parallelism.

People will oppress each other—
    man against man, neighbor against neighbor.(A)
The young will rise up against the old,
    the nobody against the honored.

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