Isaiah 3:5
And so shall the people press man against man, and one against the other: the boy shall demean himself proudly against the ancient, and the base against the honorable.
Leeser Tanakh
In The King James Version
In Context
4And I will set up boys as their princes, and children shall rule over them.
Cross References
2 Samuel 16:5And when King David came as far as Bachurim, behold, there came out thence a man of the family of the house of Saul, whose name was Shim'i, the son of Gera, coming forth, and cursing.
Job 30:1But now they who are younger than I in years laugh at me, whose fathers I scorned to put as equals with the dogs of my flocks.
Isaiah 1:4Woe! sinful nation, people laden with iniquity, seed of evil-doers, children that are corrupt: they have forsaken the Lord, they have incensed the Holy One of Israel, they are departed backward.
Isaiah 9:19(9:18) Through the fury of the Lord of hosts is the land scorched, and the people have become as food for the fire; no man will spare his brother.
Isaiah 19:2And I will stir up Egyptians against Egyptians: and they shall fight every one against his brother, and every one against his fellow; city against city, kingdom against kingdom.
Jeremiah 22:17But thy eyes and thy heart are directed on nothing but upon thy own gain, and upon innocent blood to shed it, and upon oppression, and upon extortion, to practise them.
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 →