Isaiah 3:4

And I have made youths their heads, And sucklings rule over them.

Young's Literal Translation

In The King James Version

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

In Context

3Head of fifty, and accepted of faces, And counsellor, and the wise of artificers, And the intelligent of charmers.

5And the people hath exacted — man upon man, Even a man on his neighbour, Enlarge themselves do the youths against the aged, And the lightly esteemed against the honoured.

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Cross References

2 Chronicles 33:1A son of twelve years is Manasseh in his reigning, and fifty and five years he hath reigned in Jerusalem;

2 Chronicles 36:2A son of three and twenty years [is] Jehoahaz in his reigning, and three months he hath reigned in Jerusalem,

2 Chronicles 36:9A son of eight years is Jehoiachin in his reigning, and three months and ten days he hath reigned in Jerusalem, and he doth the evil thing in the eyes of Jehovah;

Ecclesiastes 10:16Woe to thee, O land, when thy king [is] a youth, And thy princes do eat in the morning.

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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