Isaiah 3:4

And I have made youths their heads, || And sucklings rule over them.

Literal Standard Version

In The King James Version

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

In Context

3Head of fifty, and accepted of faces, || And counselor, and wise craftsmen, || And discerning charmer.

5And the people has exacted—man on man, || Even a man on his neighbor, || The youths enlarge themselves against the aged, || And the lightly esteemed against the honored.

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Cross References

2 Chronicles 33:1Manasseh is a son of twelve years in his reigning, and he has reigned fifty-five years in Jerusalem;

2 Chronicles 36:2Jehoahaz [is] a son of twenty-three years in his reigning, and he has reigned three months in Jerusalem,

2 Chronicles 36:9Jehoiachin [is] a son of eight years in his reigning, and he has reigned three months and ten days in Jerusalem, and he does evil in the eyes of YHWH;

Ecclesiastes 10:16Woe to you, O land, when your king [is] a youth, || And your 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 →

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