And I will give children - Not children regarding age so much as regarding talent for governing. I will commit the land to the gove…

I will give children to be their princes. —Better, youths. The words may point obliquely to Ahaz, who had ascend…

And I will appoint children to be their princes. To make the vengeance of God more manifest, he now describes how sad and wretched the cha…

And I will give children [to be] their princes
Either in age, or in understanding, who are really so, or act like suc…

God was about to deprive Judah of every stay and support. The city and the land were to be made desolate because their words and works had been reb…

1. For behold the Sovereign. Here begins the second part of the chapter, in which the prophet denounces their sin of oppre i…