Bible verse

Isaiah 3:4

“I will make mere lads their leaders, and children will rule over them.”

Isaiah 3:4 · BSB

Isaiah 3:4 in context

The verses around it, from Isaiah 3.

1 For behold, the Lord GOD of Hosts is about to remove from Jerusalem and Judah both supply and support: the whole supply of food and water,

2 the mighty man and the warrior, the judge and the prophet, the soothsayer and the elder,

3 the commander of fifty and the dignitary, the counselor, the cunning magician, and the clever enchanter.

4 “I will make mere lads their leaders, and children will rule over them.”

5 The people will oppress one another, man against man, neighbor against neighbor; the young will rise up against the old, and the base against the honorable.

6 A man will seize his brother within his father’s house: “You have a cloak—you be our leader! Take charge of this heap of rubble.”

7 On that day he will cry aloud: “I am not a healer. I have no food or clothing in my house. Do not make me leader of the people!”

8 For Jerusalem has stumbled and Judah has fallen because they spoke and acted against the LORD, defying His glorious presence.

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Isaiah 3:4 in other translations

KJV

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

ASV

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

ERV

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

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