Isaiah 3:4
And I have made youths their heads, And sucklings rule over them.
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Referenced Verses
- Eccl 10:16 : 16 Wo to thee, O land, when thy king `is' a youth, And thy princes do eat in the morning.
- 1 Kgs 3:7-9 : 7 And now, O Jehovah my God, Thou hast caused thy servant to reign instead of David my father; and I `am' a little child, I do not know to go out and to come in; 8 and Thy servant `is' in the midst of thy people, whom Thou hast chosen, a people numerous, that is not numbered nor counted for multitude, 9 and Thou hast given to Thy servant an understanding heart, to judge Thy people, to discern between good and evil; for who is able to judge this Thy great people?'
- 2 Chr 33:1 : 1 A son of twelve years is Manasseh in his reigning, and fifty and five years he hath reigned in Jerusalem;
- 2 Chr 34:1 : 1 A son of eight years `is' Josiah in his reigning, and thirty and one years he hath reigned in Jerusalem,
- 2 Chr 36:2 : 2 A son of three and twenty years `is' Jehoahaz in his reigning, and three months he hath reigned in Jerusalem,
- 2 Chr 36:5 : 5 A son of twenty and five years `is' Jehoiakim in his reigning, and eleven years he hath reigned in Jerusalem, and he doth the evil thing in the eyes of Jehovah his God;
- 2 Chr 36:9 : 9 A son of eight years is Jehoiachin in his reigning, and three months and ten days he hath reigned in Jerusalem, and he doth the evil thing in the eyes of Jehovah;
- 2 Chr 36:11 : 11 A son of twenty and one years `is' Zedekiah in his reigning, and eleven years he hath reigned in Jerusalem;
Similar Verses (AI)
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- Isa 3:5-73 verses86%
5 And the people hath exacted -- man upon man, Even a man on his neighbour, Enlarge themselves do the youths against the aged, And the lightly esteemed against the honoured.
6 When one layeth hold on his brother, `Of' the house of his father, `by' the garment, `Come, a ruler thou art to us, And this ruin `is' under thy hand.'
7 He lifteth up, in that day, saying: `I am not a binder up, And in my house is neither bread nor garment, Ye do not make me a ruler of the people.'
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12 My people -- its exactors `are' sucklings, And women have ruled over it. My people -- thy eulogists are causing to err, And the way of thy paths swallowed up.
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16 Instead of thy fathers are thy sons, Thou dost appoint them for princes in all the earth.
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16 Wo to thee, O land, when thy king `is' a youth, And thy princes do eat in the morning.
- Isa 3:2-32 verses74%
2 Hero and man of war, judge and prophet, And diviner and elder,
3 Head of fifty, and accepted of faces, And counsellor, and the wise of artificers, And the intelligent of charmers.
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20 And his sons have been as aforetime, And his company before Me is established, And I have seen after all his oppressors.
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1 Lo, for righteousness doth a king reign, As to princes, for judgment they rule.
- Lam 5:12-132 verses73%
12 Princes by their hand have been hanged, The faces of elders have not been honoured.
13 Young men to grind they have taken, And youths with wood have stumbled.
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6 Sons' sons `are' the crown of old men, And the glory of sons `are' their fathers.
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10 Even she doth become an exile, She hath gone into captivity, Even her sucklings are dashed to pieces At the top of all out-places, And for her honoured ones they cast a lot, And all her great ones have been bound in fetters.
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16 For before the youth doth know To refuse evil, and to fix on good, Forsaken is the land thou art vexed with, because of her two kings.
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13 Better is a poor and wise youth than an old and foolish king, who hath not known to be warned any more.
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4 Cleaved hath the tongue of a suckling unto his palate with thirst, Infants asked bread, a dealer out they have none.
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2 From the mouths of infants and sucklings Thou hast founded strength, Because of Thine adversaries, To still an enemy and a self-avenger.
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21 What dost thou say, when He looketh after thee? And thou -- thou hast taught them `to be' over thee -- leaders for head? Do not pangs seize thee as a travailing woman?
- 1 Sam 8:11-122 verses71%
11 and saith, `This is the custom of the king who doth reign over you: Your sons he doth take, and hath appointed for himself among his chariots, and among his horsemen, and they have run before his chariots;
12 also to appoint for himself heads of thousands, and heads of fifties; also to plow his plowing, and to reap his reaping; and to make instruments of his war, and instruments of his charioteer.
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16 And their sucklings are dashed to pieces before their eyes, Spoiled are their houses, and their wives lain with.
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15 And gone hath their king in a removal, He and his heads together, said Jehovah!
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21 Prepare ye for his sons slaughter; Because of the iniquity of their fathers, They rise not, nor have possessed the land, Nor filled the face of the world `with' cities.
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14 And rise doth a tumult among thy people, And all thy fortresses are spoiled, As the spoiling of Shalman of Beth-Arbel, In a day of battle, Mother against sons dashed in pieces.
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2 In the multiplying of the righteous the people rejoice, And in the ruling of the wicked the people sigh.
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18 And bows dash young men to pieces, And the fruit of the womb they pity not, On sons their eye hath no pity.
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15 I have seen all the living, who are walking under the sun, with the second youth who doth stand in his place;
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16 By me do chiefs rule, and nobles, All judges of the earth.
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4 He judgeth the poor of the people, Giveth deliverance to the sons of the needy, And bruiseth the oppressor.
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4 And I have delivered the Egyptians Into the hand of a hard lord, And a strong king doth rule over them, An affirmation of the Lord, Jehovah of Hosts.
- Ps 148:11-122 verses70%
11 Kings of earth, and all peoples, Chiefs, and all judges of earth,
12 Young men, and also maidens, Aged men, with youths,
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8 To cause to sit with princes, With the princes of His people.
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2 To turn aside from judgment the poor, And to take violently away the judgment Of the afflicted of My people, That widows may be their prey, That the fatherless they may spoil.
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30 And delighted have the first-born of the poor, And the needy in confidence lie down, And I have put to death with famine thy root, And thy remnant it slayeth.
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9 And it hath come to pass, in that day, An affirmation of Jehovah: `Perish doth the heart of the king, And the heart of the princes, And astonished have been the priests, And the prophets do wonder.'
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23 And kings have been thy nursing fathers, And their princesses thy nursing mothers; Face to the earth -- they bow down to thee, And the dust of thy feet they lick up, And thou hast known that I `am' Jehovah, That those expecting Me are not ashamed.
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2 By the transgression of a land many `are' its heads. And by an intelligent man, Who knoweth right -- it is prolonged.
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2 Hear, O heavens, and give ear, O earth, For Jehovah hath spoken: Sons I have nourished and brought up, And they -- they transgressed against Me.
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4 They have made kings, and not by Me, They have made princes, and I have not known, Their silver and their gold they have made to them idols, So that they are cut off.
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14 And have dashed them one against another, And the fathers and the sons together, An affirmation of Jehovah, I do not pity, nor spare, nor have I mercy, So as not to destroy them.
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8 Servants have ruled over us, A deliverer there is none from their hand.
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27 The king doth become a mourner, And a prince putteth on desolation, And the hands of the people of the land are troubled, From their own way I deal with them, And with their own judgments I judge them, And they have known that I `am' Jehovah!'
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14 With kings and counsellors of earth, These building wastes for themselves.
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15 A growling lion, and a ranging bear, `Is' the wicked ruler over a poor people.
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4 Far are his sons from safety, And they are bruised in the gate, And there is no deliverer.
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12 `To' the kingdom her freemen they call, But there are none there, And all her princes are at an end.
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5 And broad places of the city are full of boys and girls, Playing in its broad places.
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17 Instead of the brass I bring in gold, And instead of the iron I bring in silver, And instead of the wood brass, And instead of the stone iron, And I have made thy inspection peace, And thy exactors righteousness.