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I will give children to be their princes, and babes shall rule over them.
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Childish Rulers as Judgment
Commentators agree that God's judgment includes installing incompetent leaders. The "children" and "babes" refer not just to rulers young in age (like King Manasseh), but more significantly, to leaders who are immature, weak, foolish, and lack the wisdom to govern effectively. This is a direct consequence of God removing the wise and capable.
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Isaiah
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18th Century
Presbyterian
And I will give children - Not children regarding age so much as regarding talent for governing. I will commit the land to the gove…
19th Century
Anglican
I will give children to be their princes. —Better, youths. The words may point obliquely to Ahaz, who had ascend…
16th Century
Protestant
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…
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17th Century
Reformed Baptist
And I will give children [to be] their princesEither 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…
13th Century
Catholic
For behold the Sovereign. Here begins the second part of the chapter, in which the prophet denounces their sin of oppress…
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