Isaiah 3
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New American Standard Bible 1995

Isaiah 3:2-6

21The mighty man and the warrior, The judge and the prophet, The diviner and the elder,3The captain of fifty and the honorable man, The counselor and the expert artisan, And the skillful enchanter.4And I will make mere 2lads their princes, And 3capricious children will rule over them,5And the people will be 4oppressed, Each one by another, and each one by his 5neighbor; The youth will storm against the elder And the inferior against the honorable.6When a man 6lays hold of his brother in his father’s house, saying, “You have a cloak, you shall be our ruler, And these ruins will be under your 7charge,”

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Notes

  1. 1. Isaiah 3:2 2 Kin 24:14; Is 9:14, 15; Ezek 17:12, 13 ↩
  2. 2. Isaiah 3:4 Eccl 10:16 ↩
  3. 3. Isaiah 3:4 Lit arbitrary power will rule ↩
  4. 4. Isaiah 3:5 Mic 7:3-6 ↩
  5. 5. Isaiah 3:5 Is 9:19; Jer 9:3-8 ↩
  6. 6. Isaiah 3:6 Is 4:1 ↩
  7. 7. Isaiah 3:6 Lit hand ↩

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