World English Bible
Isaiah 3:5
“The people will be oppressed, everyone by another, and everyone by his neighbor. The child will behave himself proudly against the old man, and the base against the honorable.”
Verse in context — Isaiah 3
3
the captain of fifty, the honorable man, the counselor, the skilled craftsman, and the clever enchanter.
4
I will give boys to be their princes, and children shall rule over them.
5
The people will be oppressed, everyone by another, and everyone by his neighbor. The child will behave himself proudly against the old man, and the base against the honorable.
6
Indeed a man shall take hold of his brother in the house of his father, saying, "You have clothing, you be our ruler, and let this ruin be under your hand.
7
In that day he will cry out, saying, "I will not be a healer; for in my house is neither bread nor clothing. You shall not make me ruler of the people.
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Prophecies of judgment and hope, pointing to the coming Messiah.
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