1883 Haydock Douay Rheims Bible

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Isaiah 3:4

*And I will give children to be their princes, and the effeminate shall rule over them.

Ecclesiates 10.

Effeminate. Hebrew, "babes." Septuagint, "scoffers." Aquila, etc., "changers," (Calmet) who give way to unnatural excesses, Romans 1:27. (Haydock) --- Some manifest a prudence beyond their years: but the last kings of Juda did not, 2 Paralipomenon 36:1., and Ecclesiastes 10:16.