Isaiah 3:5

Isaiah chapter 3 · verse 5 in three public-domain English translations with cross-references

Parallel translations

WEB

World English Bible · 2000

And the people shall be oppressed, every one by another, and every one by his neighbor: the child shall behave himself proudly against the old man, and the base against the honorable.

KJV

King James Version · 1611

And the people shall be oppressed, every one by another, and every one by his neighbour: the child shall behave himself proudly against the ancient, and the base against the honourable.

ASV

American Standard Version · 1901

And the people shall be oppressed, every one by another, and every one by his neighbor: the child shall behave himself proudly against the old man, and the base against the honorable.

Context

v.4And I will give children to be their princes, and babes shall rule over them.

v.5This passage

v.6When a man shall take hold of his brother in the house of his father, saying, Thou hast clothing, be thou our ruler, and let this ruin be under thy hand;

Cross references

Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

James 5:4
Behold, the hire of the laborers who mowed your fields, which is of you kept back by fraud, crieth out: and the cries of them that reaped have entered into the ears of the Lord of Sabaoth.
Isaiah 9:19
Through the wrath of Jehovah of hosts is the land burnt up; and the people are as the fuel of fire: no man spareth his brother.
James 2:6
But ye have dishonored the poor man. Do not the rich oppress you, and themselves drag you before the judgment-seats?
Ezekiel 22:6
Behold, the princes of Israel, every one according to his power, have been in thee to shed blood.
Ecclesiastes 10:5
There is an evil which I have seen under the sun, as it were an error which proceedeth from the ruler:
Micah 3:1
And I said, Hear, I pray you, ye heads of Jacob, and rulers of the house of Israel: is it not for you to know justice?