Isaiah 3:4

American Standard Version (1901)

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

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Referenced Verses

  • Eccl 10:16 : 16 Woe to thee, O land, when thy king is a child, and thy princes eat in the morning!
  • 1 Kgs 3:7-9 : 7 And now, O Jehovah 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. 8 And thy servant is in the midst of thy people which thou hast chosen, a great people, that cannot be numbered nor counted for multitude. 9 Give thy servant therefore an understanding heart to judge thy people, that I may discern between good and evil; for who is able to judge this thy great people?
  • 2 Chr 33:1 : 1 Manasseh was twelve years old when he began to reign; and he reigned fifty and five years in Jerusalem.
  • 2 Chr 34:1 : 1 Josiah was eight years old when he began to reign; and he reigned thirty and one years in Jerusalem.
  • 2 Chr 36:2 : 2 Joahaz was twenty and three years old when he began to reign; and he reigned three months in Jerusalem.
  • 2 Chr 36:5 : 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 Jehovah his God.
  • 2 Chr 36:9 : 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 Jehovah.
  • 2 Chr 36:11 : 11 Zedekiah was twenty and one years old when he began to reign; and he reigned eleven years in Jerusalem:

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Isa 3:5-7
    3 verses
    86%

    5And the people shall be oppressed, every one by another, and every one by his neighbor: the child shall behave himself proudly against the old man, and the base against the honorable.

    6When a man shall take hold of his brother in the house of his father, [saying], Thou hast clothing, be thou our ruler, and let this ruin be under thy hand;

    7in that day shall he lift up [his voice], saying, I will not be a healer; for in my house is neither bread nor clothing: ye shall not make me ruler of the people.

  • Isa 3:12
    80%

    12As for my people, children are their oppressors, and women rule over them. O my people, they that lead thee cause thee to err, and destroy the way of thy paths.

  • Ps 45:16
    75%

    16Instead of thy fathers shall be thy children, Whom thou shalt make princes in all the earth.

  • Eccl 10:16
    74%

    16Woe to thee, O land, when thy king is a child, and thy princes eat in the morning!

  • Isa 3:2-3
    2 verses
    74%

    2the mighty man, and the man of war; the judge, and the prophet, and the diviner, and the elder;

    3the captain of fifty, and the honorable man, and the counsellor, and the expert artificer, and the skilful enchanter.

  • Jer 30:20
    73%

    20Their children also shall be as aforetime, and their congregation shall be established before me; and I will punish all that oppress them.

  • Isa 32:1
    73%

    1Behold, a king shall reign in righteousness, and princes shall rule in justice.

  • Lam 5:12-13
    2 verses
    73%

    12Princes were hanged up by their hand: The faces of elders were not honored.

    13The young men bare the mill; And the children stumbled under the wood.

  • Prov 17:6
    72%

    6Children's children are the crown of old men; And the glory of children are their fathers.

  • Nah 3:10
    72%

    10Yet was she carried away, she went into captivity; her young children also were dashed in pieces at the head of all the streets; and they cast lots for her honorable men, and all her great men were bound in chains.

  • Isa 7:16
    72%

    16For before the child shall know to refuse the evil, and choose the good, the land whose two kings thou abhorrest shall be forsaken.

  • Eccl 4:13
    72%

    13Better is a poor and wise youth than an old and foolish king, who knoweth not how to receive admonition any more.

  • Lam 4:4
    71%

    4The tongue of the sucking child cleaveth to the roof of his mouth for thirst: The young children ask bread, and no man breaketh it unto them.

  • Ps 8:2
    71%

    2Out of the mouth of babes and sucklings hast thou established strength, Because of thine adversaries, That thou mightest still the enemy and the avenger.

  • Jer 13:21
    71%

    21What wilt thou say, when he shall set over thee as head those whom thou hast thyself taught to be friends to thee? shall not sorrows take hold of thee, as of a woman in travail?

  • 1 Sam 8:11-12
    2 verses
    71%

    11And he said, This will be the manner of the king that shall reign over you: he will take your sons, and appoint them unto him, for his chariots, and to be his horsemen; and they shall run before his chariots;

    12and he will appoint them unto him for captains of thousands, and captains of fifties; and [he will set some] to plow his ground, and to reap his harvest, and to make his instruments of war, and the instruments of his chariots.

  • Isa 13:16
    71%

    16Their infants also shall be dashed in pieces before their eyes; their houses shall be rifled, and their wives ravished.

  • Amos 1:15
    71%

    15and their king shall go into captivity, he and his princes together, saith Jehovah.

  • Isa 14:21
    71%

    21Prepare ye slaughter for his children for the iniquity of their fathers, that they rise not up, and possess the earth, and fill the face of the world with cities.

  • Hos 10:14
    71%

    14Therefore shall a tumult arise among thy people, and all thy fortresses shall be destroyed, as Shalman destroyed Beth-arbel in the day of battle: the mother was dashed in pieces with her children.

  • Prov 29:2
    71%

    2When the righteous are increased, the people rejoice; But when a wicked man beareth rule, the people sigh.

  • Isa 13:18
    71%

    18And [their] bows shall dash the young men in pieces; and they shall have no pity on the fruit of the womb; their eye shall not spare children.

  • Eccl 4:15
    70%

    15I saw all the living that walk under the sun, that they were with the youth, the second, that stood up in his stead.

  • Prov 8:16
    70%

    16By me princes rule, And nobles, [even] all the judges of the earth.

  • Ps 72:4
    70%

    4He will judge the poor of the people, He will save the children of the needy, And will break in pieces the oppressor.

  • Isa 19:4
    70%

    4And I will give over the Egyptians into the hand of a cruel lord; and a fierce king shall rule over them, saith the Lord, Jehovah of hosts.

  • Ps 148:11-12
    2 verses
    70%

    11Kings of the earth and all peoples; Princes and all judges of the earth;

    12Both young men and virgins; Old men and children:

  • Ps 113:8
    70%

    8That he may set him with princes, Even with the princes of his people.

  • Isa 10:2
    70%

    2to turn aside the needy from justice, and to rob the poor of my people of their right, that widows may be their spoil, and that they may make the fatherless their prey!

  • Isa 14:30
    70%

    30And the first-born of the poor shall feed, and the needy shall lie down in safety; and I will kill thy root with famine, and thy remnant shall be slain.

  • Jer 4:9
    70%

    9And it shall come to pass at that day, saith Jehovah, that the heart of the king shall perish, and the heart of the princes; and the priests shall be astonished, and the prophets shall wonder.

  • Isa 49:23
    70%

    23And kings shall be thy nursing fathers, and their queens thy nursing mothers: they shall bow down to thee with their faces to the earth, and lick the dust of thy feet; and thou shalt know that I am Jehovah; and they that wait for me shall not be put to shame.

  • Prov 28:2
    70%

    2For the transgression of a land many are the princes thereof; But by men of understanding [and] knowledge the state [thereof] shall be prolonged.

  • Isa 1:2
    70%

    2Hear, O heavens, and give ear, O earth; for Jehovah hath spoken: I have nourished and brought up children, and they have rebelled against me.

  • Hos 8:4
    70%

    4They have set up kings, but not by me; they have made princes, and I knew it not: of their silver and their gold have they made them idols, that they may be cut off.

  • Jer 13:14
    70%

    14And I will dash them one against another, even the fathers and the sons together, saith Jehovah: I will not pity, nor spare, nor have compassion, that I should not destroy them.

  • Lam 5:8
    70%

    8Servants rule over us: There is none to deliver us out of their hand.

  • Ezek 7:27
    70%

    27The king shall mourn, and the prince shall be clothed with desolation, and the hands of the people of the land shall be troubled: I will do unto them after their way, and according to their deserts will I judge them; and they shall know that I am Jehovah.

  • Job 3:14
    70%

    14With kings and counsellors of the earth, Who built up waste places for themselves;

  • Prov 28:15
    70%

    15[ As] a roaring lion, and a ranging bear, [So is] a wicked ruler over a poor people.

  • Job 5:4
    69%

    4His children are far from safety, And they are crushed in the gate, Neither is there any to deliver them:

  • Isa 34:12
    69%

    12They shall call the nobles thereof to the kingdom, but none shall be there; and all its princes shall be nothing.

  • Zech 8:5
    69%

    5And the streets of the city shall be full of boys and girls playing in the streets thereof.

  • Isa 60:17
    69%

    17For brass I will bring gold, and for iron I will bring silver, and for wood brass, and for stones iron. I will also make thy officers peace, and thine exactors righteousness.