Catholic Public Domain Version
"And I will provide children as their leaders, and the effeminate will rule over them. "
— Isaiah 3:4, Catholic Public Domain Version
“And I will give children to be their princes, and babes shall rule over them.”
“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 sovereign Lord of hosts will take away, from Jerusalem and from Judah, the powerful and the strong: all the strength from bread, and all the strength from water;
the strong man, and the man of war, the judge and the prophet, and the seer and the elder;
the leader over fifty and the honorable in appearance; and the counselor, and the wise among builders, and the skillful in mystical speech.
And I will provide children as their leaders, and the effeminate will rule over them.
And the people will rush, man against man, and each one against his neighbor. The child shall rebel against the elder, and the ignoble against the noble.
For a man will apprehend his brother, from the household of his own father, saying: “The vestment is yours. Be our leader, but let this ruin be under your hand.”
In that day, he will respond by saying: “I am not a healer, and there is no bread or vestment in my house. Do not choose to appoint me as a leader of the people.”