“And I will give children to be their princes, and the effeminate shall rule over them.”
Isaiah 3:4
Most translations repeat the prophesy that God will curse Israel by placing it under the rule of children, but the Douay-Rheims translation specifies that a faithless nation will also be placed under the rule of “the effeminate.” The context of the verse makes clear that a government of unmanly men is part of a comprehensive moral revolution in which all natural hierarchies are inverted. Somewhat later in the imprecatory chapter, Isaiah tells us this government by children and wimps will be equally a government by women. Continue reading