Isaiah 3:5
The people will be oppressed, every one by another, and every one by his neighbor; 1 the child will insult the elderly, and the degraded will challenge the honorable. 1
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4“I will place mere youths as their leaders, and the young will rule over them. 1
Cross References
2 Samuel 16:5When King David approached Bahurim, there came out from there a man from the clan of Saul, whose name was Shimei son of Gera. He came out cursing as he walked.
Job 30:1Now those who are younger than I have nothing but mockery for me— 1 these young men whose fathers I would have refused to allow to work beside the dogs of my flock. 1
Isaiah 1:4Woe! Nation, sinners, a people weighed down with iniquity, 1 offspring of evildoers, sons who act corruptly! 1 They have abandoned Yahweh, they have despised the Holy One of Israel, 1 they have estranged themselves from him. 1
Isaiah 9:19Through the fury of Yahweh of hosts the land is scorched, and the people are like fuel for the fire. 1 No man spares his brother. 1
Isaiah 19:2“I will stir up Egyptians against Egyptians: A man will fight against his brother, and a man against his neighbor; 1 city will be against city, and kingdom against kingdom. 1
Jeremiah 22:17But there is nothing in your eyes and heart except worry for your unjust profit and for pouring out innocent blood, 1 for producing oppression and crushing of others.
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 →