Isaiah 3:5
The people will be oppressed,everyone by another,and everyone by his neighbor.The child will behave himself proudly against the old man,and the base against the honorable.
New Heart English Bible
In The King James Version
In Context
4I will give boys to be their princes,and children shall rule over them.
Cross References
2 Samuel 16:5When king David came to Bahurim, behold, a man of the family of the house of Saul came out, whose name was Shimei, the son of Gera. He came out, and cursed still as he came.
Job 30:1"But now those who are younger than I have me in derision,whose fathers I would have disdained to put with my sheep dogs.
Isaiah 1:4Ah sinful nation,a people loaded with iniquity,a seed of evildoers,children who deal corruptly!They have forsaken the Lord.They have despised the Holy One of Israel.They are estranged and backward.
Isaiah 9:19Through the wrath of the Lord of hosts, the land is burnt up;and the people are the fuel for the fire.No one spares his brother.
Isaiah 19:2I will stir up the Egyptians against the Egyptians, and they will fight everyone against his brother, and everyone against his neighbor; city against city, and kingdom against kingdom.
Jeremiah 22:17''But your eyes and your heart are not but for your covetousness, and for shedding innocent blood, and for oppression, and for violence, to do it.
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 →