Add parallel Print Page Options

He says, “I will put young boys in charge of you. They will be your leaders. The people will turn against each other. Young people will not respect those who are older. The common people will not respect important leaders.”

At that time a man will grab one of his brothers from his own family and tell him, “You have a coat,[a] so you will be our leader. You will be the leader over all these ruins.”

Read full chapter

Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 3:6 coat Or “robe.” This showed that a person was a leader of the people.

“I will make mere youths their officials;
    children will rule over them.”(A)

People will oppress each other—
    man against man, neighbor against neighbor.(B)
The young will rise up against the old,
    the nobody against the honored.

A man will seize one of his brothers
    in his father’s house, and say,
“You have a cloak, you be our leader;
    take charge of this heap of ruins!”

Read full chapter