Isaiah 3:4

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I will make boys their leaders, and immature children will rule over them.

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  • Eccl 10:16 : 16 Woe to you, O land, whose king is a youth and whose princes feast in the morning.
  • 1 Kgs 3:7-9 : 7 Now, LORD my God, you have made your servant king in place of my father David, but I am only a young and inexperienced servant who does not know how to carry out his duties. 8 Your servant is here among the people you have chosen, a great people, too numerous to count or record. 9 So give your servant a discerning heart to govern your people and to distinguish between good and evil, for who is able to govern this great people of yours?
  • 2 Chr 33:1 : 1 Manasseh was twelve years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem for fifty-five years.
  • 2 Chr 34:1 : 1 Josiah was eight years old when he became king, and he ruled in Jerusalem for thirty-one years.
  • 2 Chr 36:2 : 2 Jehoahaz was twenty-three years old when he became king, and he reigned three months in Jerusalem.
  • 2 Chr 36:5 : 5 Jehoiakim was twenty-five years old when he became king, and he reigned eleven years in Jerusalem. He did what was evil in the sight of the LORD his God.
  • 2 Chr 36:9 : 9 Jehoiachin was eighteen years old when he became king, and he reigned three months and ten days in Jerusalem. He did what was evil in the sight of the LORD.
  • 2 Chr 36:11 : 11 Zedekiah was twenty-one years old when he became king, and he reigned eleven years in Jerusalem.

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    5The people will oppress one another—man against man, neighbor against neighbor. The young will act arrogantly toward the elderly, and the dishonored against the honored.

    6A man will seize his brother in his father’s house, saying, 'You have a cloak, you be our leader; take charge of this ruin!'

    7But he will say in that day, ‘I will not be a healer. I have no food or clothing in my house. Do not appoint me as the ruler of the people.’

  • Isa 3:12
    80%

    12My people! Children oppress you, and women rule over you. Your guides mislead you and destroy the way of your paths.

  • Ps 45:16
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    16They are led with joy and gladness; they enter the palace of the king.

  • Eccl 10:16
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    16Woe to you, O land, whose king is a youth and whose princes feast in the morning.

  • Isa 3:2-3
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    2The mighty man and the warrior, the judge and the prophet, the diviner and the elder.

    3The captain of fifty and the honored man, the counselor, the skilled craftsman, and the clever enchanter.

  • Jer 30:20
    73%

    20Their children will be as they were in former times, and their community will be established before Me. I will punish all who oppress them.

  • Isa 32:1
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    1Indeed, a king will reign in righteousness, and rulers will govern with justice.

  • Lam 5:12-13
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    12Princes were hung by their hands; elders were shown no respect.

    13Young men toil at the grinding millstones, and boys stumble under heavy loads of wood.

  • Prov 17:6
    72%

    6Children’s children are the crown of the elderly, and the glory of children is their parents.

  • Nah 3:10
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    10Yet she went into exile, carried away into captivity. Her infants were dashed to pieces at every street corner. Lots were cast for her nobles, and all her great men were bound in chains.

  • Isa 7:16
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    16For before the boy knows to reject what is wrong and choose what is right, the land of the two kings you dread will be laid waste.

  • Eccl 4:13
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    13Better a poor but wise youth than an old but foolish king who no longer knows how to heed a warning.

  • Lam 4:4
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    4The tongue of the nursing infant clings to the roof of its mouth because of thirst. The children beg for bread, but no one gives it to them.

  • Ps 8:2
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    2LORD, our Lord, how majestic is Your name in all the earth! You have set Your glory above the heavens.

  • Jer 13:21
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    21What will you say when He appoints leaders over you, those you taught to be rulers? Will not pain seize you like a woman in labor?

  • 1 Sam 8:11-12
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    11He said, 'This is what the king who will reign over you will demand: He will take your sons and assign them to his chariots and horses, and they will run in front of his chariots.

    12He will appoint them as commanders of thousands and commanders of fifties. Some will plow his fields, reap his harvest, and make his weapons of war and equipment for his chariots.

  • Isa 13:16
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    16Their infants will be dashed to pieces before their eyes; their houses will be plundered, and their wives will be violated.

  • Amos 1:15
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    15Their king will go into exile, he and his princes together,' says the LORD.

  • Isa 14:21
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    21Prepare a place of slaughter for his sons because of the iniquity of their fathers. Let them not rise to possess the land or fill the face of the earth with cities.

  • Hos 10:14
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    14the roar of battle will rise against your people, and all your fortresses will be devastated—as Shalman destroyed Beth Arbel on the day of battle, when mothers were dashed to pieces with their children.

  • Prov 29:2
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    2When the righteous increase, the people rejoice, but when a wicked ruler governs, the people groan.

  • Isa 13:18
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    18Their bows will strike down the young men; they will show no mercy to the offspring of the womb, nor will they pity children.

  • Eccl 4:15
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    15I saw all the living who walk under the sun following the youth, the second one, who replaces him.

  • Prov 8:16
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    16By me princes govern, and nobles—all who judge rightly.

  • Ps 72:4
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    4He will judge the poor of the people, save the children of the needy, and crush the oppressor.

  • Isa 19:4
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    4I will hand over the Egyptians to a harsh master, and a fierce king will rule over them,” declares the Lord, the LORD of Hosts.

  • Ps 148:11-12
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    11kings of the earth and all nations, princes and all rulers of the earth,

    12young men and young women, old men and children.

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    8He seats them with princes, with the princes of His people.

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    2They deprive the poor of justice and rob the rights of the needy among my people, making widows their spoil and leaving orphans to be plundered.

  • Isa 14:30
    70%

    30The poorest of the poor will find pasture, and the needy will lie down in safety. But I will kill your root with famine, and your remnant will be slain.

  • Jer 4:9
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    9On that day, declares the LORD, the heart of the king and the officials will fail; the priests will be horrified, and the prophets will be astonished.

  • Isa 49:23
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    23Kings will be your foster fathers, and their queens your nursing mothers. They will bow down to you with their faces to the ground and lick the dust at your feet. Then you will know that I am the Lord; those who hope in Me will not be disappointed.

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    2When a land is in rebellion, it has many rulers, but with a man of understanding and knowledge, its stability will endure.

  • Isa 1:2
    70%

    2Hear, O heavens, and give ear, O earth, for the LORD has spoken: "I have raised children and brought them up, but they have rebelled against Me.

  • Hos 8:4
    70%

    4They set up kings, but not by me; they appointed leaders, but I did not know of it. With their silver and gold, they made idols for themselves, to their own destruction.

  • Jer 13:14
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    14And I will shatter them, one against another, fathers and sons together,’ declares the LORD. ‘I will show no pity, no compassion, and no mercy to prevent their destruction.’

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    70%

    8Slaves now rule over us, and there is no one to free us from their power.

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    27The king will mourn, the prince will be clothed with desolation, and the hands of the people of the land will tremble. I will deal with them according to their conduct and judge them by their own standards. Then they will know that I am the LORD.

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    14With kings and counselors of the earth who built ruins for themselves.

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    15Like a roaring lion or a charging bear is a wicked ruler over helpless people.

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    4His children are far from safety; they are crushed at the gate with no one to deliver them.

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    12Its nobles will have no one there to call them a kingdom, and all its princes will come to nothing.

  • Zech 8:5
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    5And the streets of the city will be filled with boys and girls playing there.

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    17Instead of bronze I will bring gold, and instead of iron I will bring silver; instead of wood, bronze; and instead of stones, iron. I will make your overseers peace and your rulers righteousness.