Isaiah 3:4

And I shall geue children to be their princes, and babes shall rule ouer them.

Bible (Bishops')

In The King James Version

And I will give children to be their princes, and babes shall rule over them.

In Context

3The captayne of fiftie & the honorable, the senatour, the cunnyng artificer, and the eloquent oratour.

5And the people shall eche one of them violently oppresse another, and euery one agaynst his neyghbour: The boy shall presume agaynst the elder, and the person of lowe degree agaynst the honorable.

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Cross References

Ecclesiastes 10:16Wo be vnto thee O thou lande, whose kyng is but a chylde, and whose princes are early at their bankettes.

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 →

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