Isaiah 3:4
And I will give children to be their princes, and babes shall rule over them.
JPS TaNaKH 1917
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 33:1Manasseh was twelve years old when he began to reign; and he reigned fifty and five years in Jerusalem.
2 Chronicles 36:2Joahaz was twenty and three years old when he began to reign; and he reigned three months in Jerusalem.
2 Chronicles 36:9Jehoiachin was eight years old when he began to reign; and he reigned three months and ten days in Jerusalem; and he did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD.
Ecclesiastes 10:16Woe to thee, O land, when thy king is a boy, and thy princes feast 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 →