Isaiah 3:4 · KJV
“And I will give children {to be} their princes, and babes shall rule over them.”
— Isaiah 3:4
The captain of fifty, and the honourable man, and the counsellor, and the cunning artificer, and the eloquent orator. {the honourable...: Heb. a man eminent in countenance} {eloquent...: or, skilful of speech}
And the people shall be oppressed, every one by another, and every one by his neighbour: the child shall behave himself proudly against the ancient, and the base against the honourable.
Isaiah 3 — Context
The mighty man, and the man of war, the judge, and the prophet, and the prudent, and the ancient,
3The captain of fifty, and the honourable man, and the counsellor, and the cunning artificer, and the eloquent orator. {the honourable...: Heb. a man eminent in countenance} {eloquent...: or, skilful of speech}
4And I will give children {to be} their princes, and babes shall rule over them.
5And the people shall be oppressed, every one by another, and every one by his neighbour: the child shall behave himself proudly against the ancient, and the base against the honourable.
6When a man shall take hold of his brother of the house of his father, {saying}, Thou hast clothing, be thou our ruler, and {let} this ruin {be} under thy hand:
Cross References
Ecclesiastes 10:16
Woe to thee, O land, when thy king {is} a child, and thy princes eat in the morning!
2 Chronicles 36:9
Jehoiachin {was} eight years old when he began to reign, and he reigned three months and ten days in Jerusalem: and he did {that which was} evil in the sight of the LORD.
1 Kings 3:7-9
And now, O LORD my God, thou hast made thy servant king instead of David my father: and I {am but} a little child: I know not {how} to go out or come in.
2 Chronicles 33:1
Manasseh {was} twelve years old when he began to reign, and he reigned fifty and five years in Jerusalem:
2 Chronicles 36:5
Jehoiakim {was} twenty and five years old when he began to reign, and he reigned eleven years in Jerusalem: and he did {that which was} evil in the sight of the LORD his God.
2 Chronicles 36:11
Zedekiah {was} one and twenty years old when he began to reign, and reigned eleven years in Jerusalem.
2 Chronicles 34:1
Josiah {was} eight years old when he began to reign, and he reigned in Jerusalem one and thirty years.
2 Chronicles 36:2
Jehoahaz {was} twenty and three years old when he began to reign, and he reigned three months in Jerusalem.