John Trapp on Isaiah 3:4

Ver. 4. And I will give children to be their Princes] ſi non annis, at animis; ſuch as were Ahaz, Manaſſeh, the four laſt Kings of Judah; the calamity of that Kingdom.Dii avertant principes pueros. Vopiſ. Princes that are witleſs, wilful, weak or wicked, are the peoples wo, Eccleſ. 10.16. this childhood of theirs is the maturity of their Subjects miſery. See Iob 34.30.

And babes ſhall rule over them] Sept. Mockers. ſome render it Foxes. Others Effeminate perſons. But babes is beſt. Such a one was Rehoboam, and Honorius the Emperour, who when he heard that his City of Rome was taken by Alarichus, grieved moſt of all for the loſs of a certain bird which was there kept for him, and by him called Rome. Indignum ſane, Regem aves praeferre urbibus, ſaith the Hiſtorian.