Isaiah 3:5

And the people shall fall, man upon man, and every man upon his neighbor: the child shall insult the elder man, and the base the honorable.

LXX2012 (US English)

In The King James Version

And the people shall be oppressed, every one by another, and every one by his neighbour: the child shall behave himself proudly against the ancient, and the base against the honourable.

In Context

4And I will make youths their princes, and mockers shall have dominion over them.

6For a man shall lay hold of his brother, as one of his father's household, saying, You have raiment, be you our ruler, and let my meat be under you.

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Cross References

2 Samuel 16:5And king David came to Baurim; and, behold, there came out from thence a man of the family of the house of Saul, and his name was Semei the son of Gera. He came forth and cursed as he went,

Job 30:1But now the youngest have laughed me to scorn, now they reprove me in their turn, whose fathers I set at nothing; whom I did not deem worthy to be with my shepherd dogs.

Isaiah 1:4Ah sinful nation, a people full of sins, an evil seed, lawless children: you⌃ have forsaken the Lord, and provoked the Holy One of Israel.

Isaiah 9:19The whole earth is set on fire because of the fierce anger of the Lord, and the people shall be as men burnt by fire: no man shall pity his brother.

Isaiah 19:2And the Egyptians shall be stirred up against the Egyptians: and a man shall fight against his brother, and a man against his neighbor, city against city, and + 19:2 Alex. ‘district,’ the accent being different law against + 19:2 Alex. ‘district,’ the accent being different law.

Jeremiah 22:17Behold, your eyes are not good, nor your heart, but they go after your covetousness, and after the innocent blood to shed it, and after acts of injustice and slaughter, to commit 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 →

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