Woe to you, O land whose king is a youth, and whose princes feast in the morning.
Cross References
Proverbs 28:16A leader who lacks judgment is also a great oppressor, but he who hates dishonest profit will prolong his days.
Ecclesiastes 10:15The toil of a fool wearies him, for he does not know the way to the city.
Isaiah 3:4"I will make mere lads their leaders, and children will rule over them."
Isaiah 3:12Youths oppress My people, and women rule over them. O My people, your guides mislead you; they turn you from your paths.
Isaiah 5:11Woe to those who rise early in the morning in pursuit of strong drink, who linger into the evening, to be inflamed by wine.
Treasury of Scripture
Woe to you, O land, when your king is a child, and your princes eat in the morning!
when
2 Chronicles 13:7
And there are gathered unto him vain men, the children of Belial, and have strengthened themselves against Rehoboam the son of Solomon, when Rehoboam was young and tenderhearted, and could not withstand them.
2 Chronicles 33:1
Manasseh was twelve years old when he began to reign, and he reigned fifty and five years in Jerusalem:
2 Chronicles 36:2,5,9,11
Jehoahaz was twenty and three years old when he began to reign, and he reigned three months in Jerusalem…
and
Proverbs 20:1,2
Wine is a mocker, strong drink is raging: and whosoever is deceived thereby is not wise…
Isaiah 5:11,12
Woe unto them that rise up early in the morning, that they may follow strong drink; that continue until night, till wine inflame them! …
Isaiah 28:7,8
But they also have erred through wine, and through strong drink are out of the way; the priest and the prophet have erred through strong drink, they are swallowed up of wine, they are out of the way through strong drink; they err in vision, they stumble in judgment…
in the
Jeremiah 21:12
O house of David, thus saith the LORD; Execute judgment in the morning, and deliver him that is spoiled out of the hand of the oppressor, lest my fury go out like fire, and burn that none can quench it, because of the evil of your doings.
