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(A)And I will make boys their princes,
    and infants[a] shall rule over them.
(B)And the people will oppress one another,
    every one his fellow
    and every one his neighbour;
the youth will be insolent to the elder,
    and the despised to the honourable.
For (C)a man will take hold of his brother
    in the house of his father, saying:
“You have a cloak;
    you shall be our leader,
and this heap of ruins
    shall be under your rule”;

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  1. Isaiah 3:4 Or caprice

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

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

A man will seize one of his brothers
    in his father’s house, and say,
“You have a cloak, you be our leader;
    take charge of this heap of ruins!”

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