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


In Context

1 For, lo, the Lord, Jehovah of Hosts, Is turning aside from Jerusalem, And from Judah, stay and staff, Every stay of bread, and every stay of water.

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.

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

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.'

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 New International Version of the Holy Bible

3:4I will make boys their officials; mere children will govern 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 American King James Version of the Holy Bible

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