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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.
Desperate people will grab anyone who seems the least bit ordinary.

People: You managed to hold on to your coat, so you must be our leader;
        this heap of rubble will be under your command!

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“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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