And Samuel told the people

And Samuel told all the words of the Lord unto the people that asked of him a king.
And he said, This will be the manner of the king that shall reign over you:
He will take your sons, and appoint them for himself, for his chariots, and to be his horsemen; and some shall run before his chariots.
He will take your sons and appoint them for himself, jesters and clowns, desperate for his nod and his smile counting their worth by the number of bootsteps on their back .
And he will appoint him captains over thousands, and captains over fifties; and will set them to ear his ground, and to reap his harvest, and to make his instruments of war, and instruments of his chariots.
He will take your grounds , and what is below it, and what is above it, and your homestead and your ancestral land.
You will foul your water, poison your welcomes and murder your brother to gain his glance.
And he will take your daughters to be confectionaries, and to be cooks, and to be bakers.
He will take your daughters of the full breasts and wide of hips to fill his beds and the beds of his courts and of his jesters.
He will paint them in blood and ash and charcoal and cloak them with rags. And you will admire their decay and celebrate their farts.
And he will take your fields, and your vineyards, and your oliveyards, even the best of them, and give them to his servants.
Yea and your beaches , and high places and the things you revere will be mortgaged for debts your sons and their sons even to the tenth generation will not pay off.
And he will take the tenth of your seed, and of your vineyards, and give to his officers, and to his servants.
And he will take your menservants, and your maidservants, and your goodliest young men, and your asses, and put them to his work.
And put them to his pleasure and to his robbery. You will pay to be in the queue to wash his asses and clean his sty . Yea, you will fight to sleep with his dogs
He will take the tenth of your sheep: and ye shall be his servants. (1 Samuel 8:10-17 KJV)
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