Isaiah 3:4

And I will appoint boys to be their princes,—And, petulant children, shall rule over them,

The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham

In The King James Version

And I will give children to be their princes, and babes shall rule over them.

In Context

3Captain of fifty, and favourite; And counsellor and skilled artificer, And master of magical formulas;

5And the people will, tyrannise, Every man over his fellow-man, And every man over his friend,—And they will rage The boy against, the elder, And the despised, against, the honourable,

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Cross References

2 Chronicles 33:1Twelve years old, was Manasseh when he began to reign,—and, fifty-five years, reigned he in Jerusalem.

2 Chronicles 36:2Twenty-three years old, was Joahaz when he began to reign,—and, three months, reigned he in Jerusalem.

2 Chronicles 36:9Eight years old, was Jehoiachin when he began to reign, and, three months and ten days, reigned he in Jerusalem, and he did the thing that was wicked in the eyes of Yahweh;

Ecclesiastes 10:16Alas! for thee, O land, when thy king is a boy,—and, thy rulers, in the morning, do eat:

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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