Isaiah 3:4
And I shall give children to be the princes of them, and men of women’s conditions shall be lords of them. (And I shall make children to be their leaders, and young boys to be their lords and masters.)
Wycliffe Modern Spelling
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 of twelve years, when he began to reign, and he reigned in Jerusalem five and fifty years. (Manasseh was twelve years old, when he began to reign, and he reigned in Jerusalem for fifty-five years.)
2 Chronicles 36:2Jehoahaz was of three and twenty years, when he began to reign, and he reigned three months in Jerusalem.
2 Chronicles 36:9Jehoiachin was of eight years (or Jehoiachin was eighteen years old), when he began to reign, and he reigned three months and ten days in Jerusalem, and he did evil in the sight of the Lord.
Ecclesiastes 10:16Land, woe to thee, whose king is a child, and whose princes eat early.
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 →