Holy Scripture

Isaiah 3:4

A church father on this verse
“(Verse 4.) And I will give their children as princes. If this is said in the person of the Prophet: Behold, for the Lord God of hosts will take away from Jerusalem and from Judah the strong and the mighty: all the strength of bread, and all the strength of water, and the rest: how does the same prophet now speak: I wi…”
Jerome, 5th c. — Commentary on Isaiah

Source: Septuagint

Original

4And I will make youths their princes, and mockers shall have dominion over them.

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In context

2the great and mighty man, the warrior and the judge, and the prophet, and the counselor, and the elder,

3the captain of fifty also, and the honorable counselor, and the wise artificer, and the intelligent hearer.

— Isaiah 3:4 —

5And the people shall fall, man upon man, and every man upon his neighbor: the child shall insult the elder man, and the base the honorable.

6For a man shall lay hold of his brother, as one of his father’s household, saying, Thou hast raiment, be thou our ruler, and let my meat be under thee.

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