Isaiah 3:4
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 LORD 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 therefore thy servant an understanding heart to judge thy people, that I may discern between good and bad: for who is able to judge this thy so great a 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 in Jerusalem one and thirty years.
- 2 Chr 36:2 : 2 Jehoahaz [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 the LORD 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 the LORD.
- 2 Chr 36:11 : 11 ¶ Zedekiah [was] one and twenty years old when he began to reign, and reigned eleven years in Jerusalem.
Similar Verses (AI)
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- Isa 3:5-73 verses86%
5 And the people shall be oppressed, every one by another, and every one by his neighbour: the child shall behave himself proudly against the ancient, and the base against the honourable.
6 When a man shall take hold of his brother of the house of his father, [saying], Thou hast clothing, be thou our ruler, and [let] this ruin [be] under thy hand:
7 In that day shall he swear, saying, I will not be an healer; for in my house [is] neither bread nor clothing: make me not a ruler of the people.
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12 [As for] my people, children [are] their oppressors, and women rule over them. O my people, they which lead thee cause [thee] to err, and destroy the way of thy paths.
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16 Instead of thy fathers shall be thy children, whom thou mayest make princes in all the earth.
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16 ¶ Woe to thee, O land, when thy king [is] a child, and thy princes eat in the morning!
- Isa 3:2-32 verses74%
2 The mighty man, and the man of war, the judge, and the prophet, and the prudent, and the ancient,
3 The captain of fifty, and the honourable man, and the counsellor, and the cunning artificer, and the eloquent orator.
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20 Their children also shall be as aforetime, and their congregation shall be established before me, and I will punish all that oppress them.
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1 ¶ Behold, a king shall reign in righteousness, and princes shall rule in judgment.
- Lam 5:12-132 verses73%
12 Princes are hanged up by their hand: the faces of elders were not honoured.
13 They took the young men to grind, and the children fell under the wood.
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6 ¶ Children's children [are] the crown of old men; and the glory of children [are] their fathers.
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10 Yet [was] she carried away, she went into captivity: her young children also were dashed in pieces at the top of all the streets: and they cast lots for her honourable men, and all her great men were bound in chains.
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16 For before the child shall know to refuse the evil, and choose the good, the land that thou abhorrest shall be forsaken of both her kings.
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13 ¶ Better [is] a poor and a wise child than an old and foolish king, who will no more be admonished.
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4 The 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.
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2 Out of the mouth of babes and sucklings hast thou ordained strength because of thine enemies, that thou mightest still the enemy and the avenger.
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21 What wilt thou say when he shall punish thee? for thou hast taught them [to be] captains, [and] as chief over thee: shall not sorrows take thee, as a woman in travail?
- 1 Sam 8:11-122 verses71%
11 And he said, This will be the manner of the king that shall reign over you: He will take your sons, and appoint [them] for himself, for his chariots, and [to be] his horsemen; and [some] shall run before his chariots.
12 And he will appoint him captains over thousands, and captains over fifties; and [will set them] to ear his ground, and to reap his harvest, and to make his instruments of war, and instruments of his chariots.
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16 Their children also shall be dashed to pieces before their eyes; their houses shall be spoiled, and their wives ravished.
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15 And their king shall go into captivity, he and his princes together, saith the LORD.
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21 Prepare slaughter for his children for the iniquity of their fathers; that they do not rise, nor possess the land, nor fill the face of the world with cities.
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14 Therefore shall a tumult arise among thy people, and all thy fortresses shall be spoiled, as Shalman spoiled Betharbel in the day of battle: the mother was dashed in pieces upon [her] children.
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2 ¶ When the righteous are in authority, the people rejoice: but when the wicked beareth rule, the people mourn.
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18 [Their] bows also shall dash the young men to pieces; and they shall have no pity on the fruit of the womb; their eye shall not spare children.
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15 I considered all the living which walk under the sun, with the second child that shall stand up in his stead.
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16 By me princes rule, and nobles, [even] all the judges of the earth.
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4 He shall judge the poor of the people, he shall save the children of the needy, and shall break in pieces the oppressor.
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4 And the Egyptians will I give over into the hand of a cruel lord; and a fierce king shall rule over them, saith the Lord, the LORD of hosts.
- Ps 148:11-122 verses70%
11 Kings of the earth, and all people; princes, and all judges of the earth:
12 Both young men, and maidens; old men, and children:
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8 That he may set [him] with princes, [even] with the princes of his people.
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2 To turn aside the needy from judgment, and to take away the right from the poor of my people, that widows may be their prey, and [that] they may rob the fatherless!
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30 And the firstborn of the poor shall feed, and the needy shall lie down in safety: and I will kill thy root with famine, and he shall slay thy remnant.
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9 And it shall come to pass at that day, saith the LORD, [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.
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23 And kings shall be thy nursing fathers, and their queens thy nursing mothers: they shall bow down to thee with [their] face toward the earth, and lick up the dust of thy feet; and thou shalt know that I [am] the LORD: for they shall not be ashamed that wait for me.
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2 ¶ For the transgression of a land many [are] the princes thereof: but by a man of understanding [and] knowledge the state [thereof] shall be prolonged.
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2 ¶ Hear, O heavens, and give ear, O earth: for the LORD hath spoken, I have nourished and brought up children, and they have rebelled against me.
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4 They 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.
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14 And I will dash them one against another, even the fathers and the sons together, saith the LORD: I will not pity, nor spare, nor have mercy, but destroy them.
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8 Servants have ruled over us: [there is] none that doth deliver [us] out of their hand.
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27 The 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] the LORD.
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14 With kings and counsellors of the earth, which built desolate places for themselves;
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15 ¶ [As] a roaring lion, and a ranging bear; [so is] a wicked ruler over the poor people.
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4 His children are far from safety, and they are crushed in the gate, neither [is there] any to deliver [them].
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12 They shall call the nobles thereof to the kingdom, but none [shall be] there, and all her princes shall be nothing.
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5 And the streets of the city shall be full of boys and girls playing in the streets thereof.
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17 For 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.