Isaiah 3:4

Geneva Bible (1560)

And I will appoint children to bee their princes, and babes shall rule ouer them.

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Referenced Verses

  • Eccl 10:16 : 16 Woe to thee, O lande, when thy King is a childe, and thy princes eate in the morning.
  • 1 Kgs 3:7-9 : 7 And now, O Lord my God, thou hast made thy seruant King in steade of Dauid my father: and I am but a yong childe, and know not howe to go out and in. 8 And thy seruant is in the mids of thy people, which thou hast chosen, euen a great people which cannot be told nor nobred for multitude. 9 Giue therefore vnto thy seruant an vnderstanding heart, to iudge thy people, that I may discerne betweene good & bad: for who is able to iudge this thy mightie people?
  • 2 Chr 33:1 : 1 Manasseh was twelue yeere olde, when he beganne to reigne, and he reigned fiue and fiftie yeere in Ierusalem:
  • 2 Chr 34:1 : 1 Iosiah was eight yeere olde when hee began to reigne, and he reigned in Ierusalem one and thirtie yeere.
  • 2 Chr 36:2 : 2 Iehoahaz was three and twentie yeere old when he began to reigne, and he reigned three moneths in Ierusalem.
  • 2 Chr 36:5 : 5 Iehoiakim was fiue and twentie yeere old, when he began to reigne, and he reigned eleuen yeere in Ierusalem, and did euill in the sight of the Lord his God.
  • 2 Chr 36:9 : 9 Iehoiachin was eight yeere olde when he beganne to reigne, and he reigned three moneths and ten dayes in Ierusalem, and did euill in the sight of the Lorde.
  • 2 Chr 36:11 : 11 Zedekiah was one and twentie yeere olde, when he beganne to reigne, and reigned eleuen yeere in Ierusalem.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Isa 3:5-7
    3 verses
    86%

    5 The people shalbe oppressed one of another, and euery one by his neighbour: the children shall presume against the ancient, and the vile against the honourable.

    6 When euery one shall take holde of his brother of the house of his father, and say, Thou hast clothing: thou shalt bee our prince, and let this fall be vnder thine hand.

    7 In that day hee shall sweare, saying, I cannot bee an helper: for there is no bread in mine house, nor clothing: therefore make me no prince of the people.

  • 12 Children are extorcioners of my people, and women haue rule ouer them: O my people, they that leade thee, cause thee to erre, and destroy the way of thy paths.

  • 16 In steade of thy fathers shall thy children be: thou shalt make them princes through all the earth.

  • 16 Woe to thee, O lande, when thy King is a childe, and thy princes eate in the morning.

  • Isa 3:2-3
    2 verses
    74%

    2 The strong man, & the man of warre, the iudge and the prophet, the prudent and the aged,

    3 The captaine of fiftie, and the honourable, and the counseller, and the cunning artificer, and the eloquent man.

  • 20 Their children also shall be as afore time, and their congregation shall be established before me: and I will visite all that vexe them.

  • 1 Beholde, a King shall reigne in iustice, and the princes shall rule in iudgement.

  • Lam 5:12-13
    2 verses
    73%

    12 The princes are hanged vp by their hande: the faces of the elders were not had in honour.

    13 They tooke the yong men to grinde, and the children fell vnder the wood.

  • 6 Childres children are the crowne of the elders: and the glory of ye children are their fathers.

  • 10 Yet was she caried awaye, and went into captiuitie: her young children also were dashed in pieces at the head of all the streetes: and they cast lottes for her noble men, and al her myghtie men were bound in chaines.

  • 16 For afore the childe shall haue knowledge to eschew the euill, and to chuse the good, the land, that thou abhorrest, shalbe forsaken of both her Kings.

  • 13 Better is a poore and wise childe, then an olde and foolish King, which will no more be admonished.

  • 4 The tongue of the sucking childe cleaueth to the roofe of his mouth for thirst: the yong children aske bread, but no man breaketh it vnto them.

  • 71%

    2 Out of the mouth of babes & suckelings hast thou ordeined strength, because of thine enemies, that thou mightest still the enemie and the auenger.

  • 21 What wilt thou saye, when hee shall visite thee? (for thou hast taught them to be captaines and as chiefe ouer thee) shall not sorow take thee as a woman in trauaile?

  • 71%

    11 And he saide, This shall be the maner of the King that shall reigne ouer you: he will take your sonnes, and appoint them to his charets, and to be his horsemen, and some shall runne before his charet.

    12 Also he will make them his captaines ouer thousands, and captaines ouer fifties, and to eare his ground, and to reape his haruest, and to make instruments of warre, and the thinges that serue for his charets.

  • 16 Their children also shall be broken in pieces before their eyes: their houses shall be spoiled, and their wiues rauished.

  • 15 And their King shall go into captiuitie, he and his princes together, saith the Lord.

  • 21 Prepare a slaughter for his children, for the iniquitie of their fathers: let them not rise vp nor possesse the land, nor fil the face of the world with enemies.

  • 14 Therefore shall a tumult arise among thy people, and all thy munitions shall be destroyed, as Shalman destroyed Beth-arbell in the daie of battell: the mother with the children was dashed in pieces.

  • 2 When the righteous are in authoritie, the people reioyce: but when the wicked beareth rule, the people sigh.

  • 18 With bowes also shall they destroy ye children, and shall haue no compassion vpon the fruit of the wombe, and their eies shall not spare the children.

  • 15 I behelde all the liuing, which walke vnder the sunne, with the second childe, which shall stand vp in his place.

  • 16 By me princes rule and the nobles, and all the iudges of the earth.

  • 4 He shall iudge the poore of the people: he shall saue the children of the needie, and shal subdue the oppressor.

  • 4 And I will deliuer the Egyptians into the hand of the cruell Lordes, & a mightie King shall rule ouer them, sayth the Lord God of hostes.

  • Ps 148:11-12
    2 verses
    70%

    11 Kings of the earth and all people, princes and all iudges of the worlde:

    12 Yong men and maidens, also olde men and children:

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

  • 2 To keepe backe ye poore from iudgement, and to take away the iudgement of the poore of my people, that widowes may be their pray, and that they may spoyle the fatherlesse.

  • 30 For the first borne of the poore shall be fed, and the needie shall lie downe in safetie: and I will kill thy roote with famine, and it shal slay thy remnant.

  • 9 And in that day, saith the Lorde, the heart of the King shall perish, and the heart of the princes and the Priestes shall be astonished, and the Prophets shall wonder.

  • 23 And Kings shalbe thy nourcing fathers, and Queenes shalbe thy nources: they shall worship thee with their faces towarde the earth, and licke vp the dust of thy feete: and thou shalt knowe that I am the Lord: for they shall not be ashamed that waite for me.

  • 2 For the transgression of the land there are many princes thereof: but by a man of vnderstanding and knowledge a realme likewise endureth long.

  • 2 Heare, O heauens, and hearken, O earth: for the Lorde hath sayde, I haue nourished and brought vp children, but they haue rebelled against me.

  • 4 They haue set vp a King, but not by me: they haue made princes, and I knew it not: of their siluer and their gold haue they made them idoles: therefore shall they be destroyed.

  • 14 And I wil dash them one against another, euen the fathers and the sonnes together, sayeth the Lord: I will not spare, I will not pitie nor haue compassion, but destroy them.

  • 8 Seruants haue ruled ouer vs, none would deliuer vs out of their hands.

  • 27 The King shall mourne, and the prince shall be clothed with desolation, and the handes of the people in the land shall be troubled: I wil doe vnto them according to their waies, and according to their iudgements will I iudge them, and they shall knowe that I am the Lorde.

  • 14 With the Kings & counselers of the earth, which haue buylded themselues desolate places:

  • 15 As a roaring lyon, and an hungry beare, so is a wicked ruler ouer the poore people.

  • 4 His children shalbe farre from saluation, and they shall be destroyed in the gate, & none shall deliuer them.

  • 12 The nobles thereof shal call to the kingdome, and there shalbe none, and all the princes thereof shalbe as nothing.

  • 5 And the streetes of the citie shalbe full of boyes and girles, playing in the streetes thereof.

  • 17 For brasse will I bring golde, and for yron will I bring siluer, and for wood brasse, and for stones yron. I will also make thy gouernement peace, and thine exactours righteousnesse.