Isaiah 3:4
And I will give children to be their princes, and the effeminate shall rule over them.
Douay-Rheims 1899
In The King James Version
And I will give children to be their princes, and babes shall rule over them.
In Context
Cross References
2 Chronicles 33:1Manasses was twelve years old when he began to reign, and he reigned fifty-five years in Jerusalem.
2 Chronicles 36:2Joachaz was three and twenty years old when he began to reign, and he reigned three months in Jerusalem.
2 Chronicles 36:9Joachin was eight years old when he began to reign, and he reigned three months and ten days in Jerusalem, and he did evil in the sight of the Lord.
Ecclesiastes 10:16Woe to thee, O land, when thy king is a child, and when the princes eat in the morning.
Matthew Henry on Isaiah 3:2-9
Judgments Denounced. ( b. c. 758.) 1 For, behold, the Lord, the Lord of hosts, doth take away from Jerusalem and from Judah the stay and the staff, the whole stay of bread, and the whole stay of water, 2 The mighty man, and the man of war, the judge, and the prophet, and the prudent, and the ancient, 3 The captain of fifty, and the honourable man, and the counsellor, and the cunning artificer, and the eloquent orator. 4 And I will give children to be their princes, and babes shall rule over them. 5 And the people… Read the whole commentary →