Isaiah 3:4
He will appoint boys to be your leaders; your children will rule you.
Translation for Translators
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 12 years old when he became the king of Judah, and he ruled from Jerusalem for 55 years.
2 Chronicles 36:2Jehoahaz was 23 years old when he became the king, but he ruled from Jerusalem for only three months.
2 Chronicles 36:9Jehoiachin was 18 years old when he became the king of Judah, and he ruled from Jerusalem for only three months and ten days. He did things that Yahweh considers to be evil.
Ecclesiastes 10:16Terrible things will happen to the people of a nation whose ruler is a foolish young man, and whose other leaders continually eat, all day long, every day.
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 →