Isaiah 3:4 - The Scriptures 1998

⁴ “And I shall make youths their heads, and children shall rule over them.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁴ And I will give children to be their princes, and babes shall rule over them.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁴ And I will make boys their princes, and with childishness shall they rule over them [with outrage instead of justice].

American Standard Version (1901)

⁴ And I will give children to be their princes, and babes shall rule over them.

Common English Bible

⁴ I will make youths their commanders; mischief makers will rule over them.

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁴ And I will provide children as their leaders, and the effeminate will rule over them.

Isaiah 3:4 Cross References

2 Chronicles 33:1

Menashsheh was twelve years old when he began to reign, and he reigned fifty-five years in Yerushalayim.

2 Chronicles 34:1

Yoshiyahu was eight years old when he began to reign, and he reigned thirty-one years in Yerushalayim.

2 Chronicles 36:11

Tsiḏ

2 Chronicles 36:2

Yeho’aḥ

2 Chronicles 36:5

Yehoyaqim was twenty-five years old when he began to reign, and he reigned eleven years in Yerushalayim. And he did evil in the eyes of יהוה  his Elohim.

2 Chronicles 36:9

Yehoyaḵ

Ecclesiastes 10:16

Woe to you, O land, when your sovereign is a youth, and your rulers feast in the morning!

Isaiah 3:12

“My people! Youths exert pressure on them, and women rule over them. O My people! Your leaders lead you astray, and swallow the way of your paths.”

Isaiah 3:16

And יהוה  says, “Because the daughters of Tsiyon are haughty, and walk with outstretched necks and seductive eyes, walking and mincing as they go, making a jingling with their feet,

Isaiah 3:3

the commander of fifty and the highly respected man, and the counsellor and the skilled craftsman, and the clever enchanter.

Jeremiah 52:3

For through the displeasure of יהוה  this came to be against Yerushalayim and Yehuḏ