Isaiah 3:4
And I will set up boys as their princes, and children shall rule over them.
Leeser Tanakh
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 33:1Twelve years old was Manasseh when he became king, and fifty and five years did he reign in Jerusalem.
2 Chronicles 36:2Twenty and three years old was Joachaz when he became king, and three months did he reign in Jerusalem.
2 Chronicles 36:9Eight years old was Jehoyachin when he became king, and three months and ten days did he reign in Jerusalem: and he did what is evil in the eyes of the Lord.
Ecclesiastes 10:16Woe to thee, O land, when thy king is lowminded, and when thy 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 →