Isaiah 3:4

Bishops' Bible (1568)

And I shall geue children to be their princes, and babes shall rule ouer them.

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  • Eccl 10:16 : 16 Wo be vnto thee O thou lande, whose kyng is but a chylde, and whose princes are early at their bankettes.
  • 1 Kgs 3:7-9 : 7 And nowe O Lord my God, it is thou that hast made thy seruaunt king in steade of Dauid my father: And I am but young, & wote not howe to go out and in. 8 And thy seruaunt is in the middest of thy people which thou hast chosen: and veryly the people are so many, that they cannot be told nor nubred for multitude. 9 Geue therfore thy seruaunt an vnderstanding heart to iudge thy people, that I may discerne betweene good & bad: For who is able to iudge this thy so mightie a people?
  • 2 Chr 33:1 : 1 Manasse was twelue yeres olde when he began to raigne, and he raigned fiftie and fiue yeres in Hierusalem:
  • 2 Chr 34:1 : 1 Iosia was eyght yeres olde when he began to raigne, and he raigned in Hierusalem thirtie and one yeres.
  • 2 Chr 36:2 : 2 And Iehoahaz was twentie & three yeres olde when he began to raigne, and he raigned three monethes in Hierusalem.
  • 2 Chr 36:5 : 5 Iehoiacim was twentie and fiue yeres old when he began to raigne, & he raigned aleuen yeres in Hierusalem, and he did euil in the sight of the Lord his God.
  • 2 Chr 36:9 : 9 And Iehoiacin was eyght yeres olde when he began to raigne, and he raigned three monethes and ten dayes in Hierusalem, and dyd euyll in the sight of the Lorde.
  • 2 Chr 36:11 : 11 Zedekia was one and twentie yeres old when he began the raigne, and raigned aleuen yeres in Hierusalem.

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  • Isa 3:5-7
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    5 And the people shall eche one of them violently oppresse another, and euery one agaynst his neyghbour: The boy shall presume agaynst the elder, and the person of lowe degree agaynst the honorable.

    6 Yea one shall take a friende of his owne kinrede by the bosome, and say: thou hast clothyng, thou shalt be our head, and stay this ruine with thy hande.

    7 Then shall he sweare and say, I can not helpe you: there is neither meate nor clothyng in my house, make me no ruler of the people.

  • 12 Children are extortioners of my people, and women rule ouer them: O my people, thy leaders deceaue thee, and corrupt the way of thy footsteppes.

  • 16 In steade of thy fathers, thou shalt haue children: whom thou mayst make princes in all landes.

  • 16 Wo be vnto thee O thou lande, whose kyng is but a chylde, and whose princes are early at their bankettes.

  • Isa 3:2-3
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    2 The captayne and the souldiour, the iudge and the prophete, the prudent and the aged man,

    3 The captayne of fiftie & the honorable, the senatour, the cunnyng artificer, and the eloquent oratour.

  • 20 Their children shalbe as aforetyme, and their congregation shall continue in my syght: and all those that vexe them wyll I visite.

  • 1 Beholde, a kyng shall gouerne after the rule of righteousnesse, and the princes shall rule according to the ballaunce of equitie.

  • Lam 5:12-13
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    12 The princes are hanged vp with the hand of the enemies, they haue not spared the olde sage men.

    13 They haue taken young men to grinde, and the boyes fainted vnder the burthens of wood.

  • 6 Childers children are a crowne of the aged, and the fathers are the honour of the children.

  • 10 Notwithstanding she passed away, she went into captiuitie, her children also were dashed in peeces in the top of all the streetes: for her horrible men they cast lottes, and all her great states they chayned in fetters.

  • 16 For or euer the chylde come to knowledge to eschewe the euil and choose the good, the lande that thou so abhorrest shalbe desolate of both her kynges.

  • 13 A poore chylde beyng wise, is better then an olde kyng that doteth, and can not beware in tyme to come.

  • 4 The tongues of the sucking chyldren cleaue to the roofe of their mouthes for very thyrst: the young chyldren aske bread, but there is no man that geueth it them.

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    2 Out of the mouth of very babes and sucklinges thou hast layde the foundation of thy strength for thyne aduersaries sake: that thou mightest styll the enemie and the auenger.

  • 21 To whom wilt thou make thy mone when the enemie shall come vpon thee? for thou hast taught them thy selfe, and made them maisters ouer thee: Shall not sorowe come vpon thee as on a woman trauaylyng with childe?

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    11 And he said: This shal be the maner of the king that shall raigne ouer you, he will take your sonnes and put them to his charets, and make his horsemen of them, to run before his charet.

    12 And will make him of the captaines ouer thousandes and ouer fifties, and will set them to eare his grounde, and to gather in his haruest, & to make instrumentes of warre, and thinges that serue for his charets.

  • 16 Their chyldren shalbe slayne before their eyes: their house spoyled, and their wiues rauished.

  • 15 And their king shall go into captiuitie, he and his princes together, sayth the Lorde.

  • 21 Let there a way be sought to destroy their children that be in their fathers wickednesse, that they come not vp agayne to possesse the lande, and fyll the worlde full of enemies.

  • 14 There shall growe a sedition among thy people, all thy strong cities shalbe layde waste, euen as Salma destroyed Beth Arbel in the day of battayle, where the mother with the children were dasshed in peeces.

  • 2 When the ryghteous are in aucthoritie the people do reioyce: but when the wicked beare rule, the people mourne.

  • 18 With bowes shall they destroy the young men, and haue no pitie on women with chylde, and their faces shall not spare the chyldren.

  • 15 And I perceaued that all men lyuyng vnder the sunne, go with the seconde childe that shall stande vp in the steade of the other.

  • 16 By me princes beare rule, and noble men do iudge the earth.

  • 4 He wyll iudge the afflicted amongst the people: he wyll saue the children of the poore, and subdue the oppressour.

  • 4 And the Egyptians wyll I geue ouer into the hande of a maruaylous cruell lorde, and a mightie kyng shall haue dominion ouer them, saith the Lorde God of hoastes.

  • Ps 148:11-12
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    11 Kynges of the earth and all people: princes and all iudges of the earth.

    12 Young men and maydens, olde men with children,

  • 8 For to make him sit with the princes: euen with the princes of his people.

  • 2 Where thorowe the poore are put from their right, and my seelie people robbed of iudgement, that wydowes may be their pray, and that they may rob the fatherlesse.

  • 30 But the first borne of the poore shalbe fed, and the simple shall dwell in safetie: Thy roote also wyll I destroy with hunger, and it shall slay the remnaunt.

  • 9 At the same tyme saith the Lord, the heart of the kyng & of the princes shalbe gone, the priestes shalbe astonished, and the prophetes shalbe sore afrayde.

  • 23 For kynges shalbe thy nursyng fathers, and queenes shalbe thy nursyng mothers: They shall fall before thee with their faces flat vpon the earth, & lick vp the dust of thy feete: that thou mayest knowe howe that I am the Lorde, and that who so putteth their trust in me shall not be confounded.

  • 2 For the wickednes of the lande, the prince is oft chaunged: but thorowe a man of vnderstanding and wysdome, a realme endureth long.

  • 2 Heare O heauens, and hearken O earth: for the Lorde hath spoken, I haue norished and brought vp children, and they haue done vnfaithfully against me.

  • 4 They haue ordeyned kinges, but not through me, they haue made princes, and I knewe it not: of their siluer and golde haue they made them idols, therfore shall they be destroyed.

  • 14 And I wyll set them one agaynst another, yea the fathers against the sonnes, saith the Lorde: I wyll not pardon them, I wyll not spare them, nor haue pitie vpon them: but destroy them.

  • 8 Seruauntes haue the rule of vs, and no man deliuereth vs out of their handes.

  • 27 The kyng shall mourne, the prince shalbe clothed with desolation, and the handes of the people in the lande shalbe troubled: I wyll do vnto them after their owne wayes, accordyng to their owne iudgementes wyll I iudge them: and they shall knowe that I am the Lorde.

  • 14 Lyke as the kinges and lordes of the earth, which haue buylded them selues speciall places,

  • 15 As a roaring Lion and an hungrye Beare, so is an vngodly prince ouer the poore people.

  • 4 His children were without prosperitie, and they were slayne in the gate, and there was no man to deliuer them.

  • 12 Her nobles shall call, and there is no kyngdome: and all her princes shalbe nothyng.

  • 5 The streetes of the citie also shalbe ful of young boyes and damsels playing in the streetes thereof.

  • 17 For brasse, wyll I geue thee golde, and for iron, siluer: for wood, brasse, and for stones iron: I wyll turne thyne oppression into peace, and thyne exactions into righteousnesse.