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He will take away their military officers and high-ranking officials,
    advisers and skilled workers, and experts with charms and amulets.
In the chaos of their absence, I will make mere kids rule.
    Even infants will govern them,
Leaving people to take advantage of each other,
    making their lives miserable.
Youngsters will terrorize the elderly,
    and the most despicable will bully the upstanding.

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the captain of fifty(A) and the man of rank,(B)
    the counselor, skilled craftsman(C) and clever enchanter.(D)

“I will make mere youths their officials;
    children will rule over them.”(E)

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

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