4I will make boys their officials; mere children will govern them.


In Context

1 See now, the Lord, the Lord Almighty, is about to take from Jerusalem and Judah both supply and support: all supplies of food and all supplies of water,

2 the hero and warrior, the judge and prophet, the soothsayer and elder,

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

4 I will make boys their officials; mere children will govern them.

5 People will oppress each other- man against man, neighbor against neighbor. The young will rise up against the old, the base against the honorable.

6 A man will seize one of his brothers at his father's home, and say, "You have a cloak, you be our leader; take charge of this heap of ruins!"

Isaiah 3:4 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

3:4And I will give children [to be] their princes, and babes shall rule over them.

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

3:4And I will give children to be their princes, and the effeminate shall rule over them.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

3:4And I will give children to be their princes, and babes shall rule over them.

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

3:4And I will appoint youths as their princes, and children shall rule over them.

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

3:4And I will give children to be their princes, and babes shall rule over them.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

3:4And I will give children to be their princes, and babes shall rule over them.

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

3:4I will give boys to be their princes, and children shall rule over them.

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

3:4And I have made youths their heads, And sucklings rule over them.

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

3:4And I will give children to be their princes, and babes shall rule over them.