Isaiah 3:5
The people will be oppressed, 2 everyone by another, 2 and everyone by his neighbor. 1 The child will behave himself proudly against the old man, 2 and the base against the honorable. 1
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4I will give boys to be their princes, 2 and children shall rule over them. 1
Cross References
Isaiah 1:4Ah sinnful ·deviant (from the standard goal)· nation, 2 a people loaded with depravity (moral evil), 2 offspring of evildoers, 2 children who deal corruptly! 1 They have forsaken Adonai. 2 They have despised haKadosh Isra'el [the Holy One of God prevails]. 2 They are estranged and backward. 1
Isaiah 9:19Through Adonai Tzva'ot [Yahweh Commander of heaven’s armies]’ wrath, the land is burned up; 2 and the people are the fuel for the fire. 2 No one spares his brother. 1
Isaiah 19:2I will stir up the Egyptians [people from Abode of slavery] against the Egyptians [people from Abode of slavery], and they will fight everyone against his brother, and everyone against his neighbor; city against city, and kingdom against kingdom.
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 →