Isaiah 3:4
Strong's Lexicon
“I will make
וְנָתַתִּ֥י (wə·nā·ṯat·tî)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Conjunctive perfect - first person common singular
Strong's Hebrew 5414: 1) to give, put, set 1a) (Qal) 1a1) to give, bestow, grant, permit, ascribe, employ, devote, consecrate, dedicate, pay wages, sell, exchange, lend, commit, entrust, give over, deliver up, yield produce, occasion, produce, requite to, report, mention, utter, stretch out, extend 1a2) to put, set, put on, put upon, set, appoint, assign, designate 1a3) to make, constitute 1b) (Niphal) 1b1) to be given, be bestowed, be provided, be entrusted to, be granted to, be permitted, be issued, be published, be uttered, be assigned 1b2) to be set, be put, be made, be inflicted 1c) (Hophal) 1c1) to be given, be bestowed, be given up, be delivered up 1c2) to be put upon

mere lads
נְעָרִ֖ים (nə·‘ā·rîm)
Noun - masculine plural
Strong's Hebrew 5288: 1) a boy, lad, servant, youth, retainer 1a) boy, lad, youth 1b) servant, retainer

their leaders,
שָׂרֵיהֶ֑ם (śā·rê·hem)
Noun - masculine plural construct | third person masculine plural
Strong's Hebrew 8269: 1) prince, ruler, leader, chief, chieftain, official, captain 1a) chieftain, leader 1b) vassal, noble, official (under king) 1c) captain, general, commander (military) 1d) chief, head, overseer (of other official classes) 1e) heads, princes (of religious office) 1f) elders (of representative leaders of people) 1g) merchant-princes (of rank and dignity) 1h) patron-angel 1i) Ruler of rulers (of God) 1j) warden

and children
וְתַעֲלוּלִ֖ים (wə·ṯa·‘ă·lū·lîm)
Conjunctive waw | Noun - masculine plural
Strong's Hebrew 8586: 1) wantonness, caprice, vexation

will rule
יִמְשְׁלוּ־ (yim·šə·lū-)
Verb - Qal - Imperfect - third person masculine plural
Strong's Hebrew 4910: 1) to rule, have dominion, reign 1a) (Qal) to rule, have dominion 1b) (Hiphil) 1b1) to cause to rule 1b2) to exercise dominion

over them.”
בָֽם׃ (ḇām)
Preposition | third person masculine plural
Strong's Hebrew :

Parallel Strong's
Berean Study Bible
“I will make mere lads their leaders, and children will rule over them.”

Young's Literal Translation
And I have made youths their heads, And sucklings rule over them.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
I will make youths their leaders, and the unstable will govern them.”

New American Standard Bible
And I will make mere lads their princes, And capricious children will rule over them,

King James Bible
And I will give children [to be] their princes, and babes shall rule over them.
Parallel Verses
New International Version
"I will make mere youths their officials; children will rule over them."

New Living Translation
I will make boys their leaders, and toddlers their rulers.

English Standard Version
And I will make boys their princes, and infants shall rule over them.

New American Standard Bible
And I will make mere lads their princes, And capricious children will rule over them,

King James Bible
And I will give children to be their princes, and babes shall rule over them.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
I will make youths their leaders, and the unstable will govern them."

International Standard Version
"I will make youths their princes, and infants will rule over them.

NET Bible
The LORD says, "I will make youths their officials; malicious young men will rule over them.

American Standard Version
And I will give children to be their princes, and babes shall rule over them.

English Revised Version
And I will give children to be their princes, and babes shall rule over them.

Young's Literal Translation
And I have made youths their heads, And sucklings rule over them.
















Cross References
Ecclesiastes 10:16
Woe to thee, O land, when thy king is a child, and thy princes eat in the morning!

Isaiah 3:3
The captain of fifty, and the honourable man, and the counseller, and the cunning artificer, and the eloquent orator.

Isaiah 3:12
As for my people, children are their oppressors, and women rule over them. O my people, they which lead thee cause thee to err, and destroy the way of thy paths.

Isaiah 3:16
Moreover the LORD saith, Because the daughters of Zion are haughty, and walk with stretched forth necks and wanton eyes, walking and mincing as they go, and making a tinkling with their feet:

Jeremiah 52:3
For through the anger of the LORD it came to pass in Jerusalem and Judah, till he had cast them out from his presence, that Zedekiah rebelled against the king of Babylon.

Isaiah 1:1
The vision of Isaiah the son of Amoz, which he saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem in the days of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah.

Isaiah 3:2
The mighty man, and the man of war, the judge, and the prophet, and the prudent, and the ancient,

Isaiah 3:1
For, behold, the Lord, the LORD of hosts, doth take away from Jerusalem and from Judah the stay and the staff, the whole stay of bread, and the whole stay of water,

Isaiah 3:5
And the people shall be oppressed, every one by another, and every one by his neighbour: the child shall behave himself proudly against the ancient, and the base against the honourable.

Isaiah 3:6
When a man shall take hold of his brother of the house of his father, saying, Thou hast clothing, be thou our ruler, and let this ruin be under thy hand:

Isaiah 3:7
In that day shall he swear, saying, I will not be an healer; for in my house is neither bread nor clothing: make me not a ruler of the people.
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