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Isaiah 3:4

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

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Baptist theologian, 1697–1771

Gill's Exposition

And I will give children to be their princes,.... Either in age, or in understanding, who are really so, or act like such; and in either sense, when this is the case, it is an unhappiness to a nation,…

Presbyterian pastor, 1798–1870

Barnes' Notes

And I will give children - Not children in respect to age so much as in regard to talent for governing. I will commit the land to the government of weak and imbecile princes. This would naturally…

Nonconformist minister, 1662–1714

Matthew Henry

Isaiah 3:1-8

The prophet, in the close of the foregoing chapter, had given a necessary caution to all not to put confidence in man, or any creature; he had also given a general reason for that caution, taken from…