American Standard Version
"And I will give children to be their princes, and babes shall rule over them. "
— Isaiah 3:4, American Standard Version
“And I will give children to be their princes, and babes shall rule over them.”
“I will give boys to be their princes, and children shall rule over them.”
“The LORD says,“I will make youths their officials; malicious young men will rule over them.”
“And I will give children to be their princes, and the effeminate shall rule over them.”
“And I will make children their chiefs, and foolish ones will have rule over them.”
“And I will give children to be their princes, and babes shall rule over them.”
For, behold, the Lord, Jehovah of hosts, doth take away from Jerusalem and from Judah stay and staff, the whole stay of bread, and the whole stay of water;
the mighty man, and the man of war; the judge, and the prophet, and the diviner, and the elder;
the captain of fifty, and the honorable man, and the counsellor, and the expert artificer, and the skilful enchanter.
And I will give children to be their princes, and babes shall rule over them.
And the people shall be oppressed, every one by another, and every one by his neighbor: the child shall behave himself proudly against the old man, and the base against the honorable.
When a man shall take hold of his brother in the house of his father, saying, Thou hast clothing, be thou our ruler, and let this ruin be under thy hand;
in that day shall he lift up his voice, saying, I will not be a healer; for in my house is neither bread nor clothing: ye shall not make me ruler of the people.