There is the little tribe of Benjamin, leading them, there the great throng of Judah’s princes, and there the princes of Zebulun and of Naphtali.

Make their nobles like Oreb and Zeeb, all their princes like Zebah and Zalmunna,

to instruct his princes as he pleased and teach his elders wisdom.

he seats them with princes, with the princes of his people.

It is better to take refuge in the Lord than to trust in princes.

Do not put your trust in princes, in human beings, who cannot save.

kings of the earth and all nations, you princes and all rulers on earth,

by me princes govern, and nobles—all who rule on earth.

A large population is a king’s glory, but without subjects a prince is ruined.

It is not fitting for a fool to live in luxury— how much worse for a slave to rule over princes!

I have seen slaves on horseback, while princes go on foot like slaves.

Woe to the land whose king was a servant and whose princes feast in the morning.

Blessed is the land whose king is of noble birth and whose princes eat at a proper time— for strength and not for drunkenness.

How beautiful your sandaled feet, O prince’s daughter! Your graceful legs are like jewels, the work of an artist’s hands.

For to us a child is born, to us a son is given, and the government will be on his shoulders. And he will be called Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace.

Who planned this against Tyre, the bestower of crowns, whose merchants are princes, whose traders are renowned in the earth?

Her nobles will have nothing there to be called a kingdom, all her princes will vanish away.

He brings princes to naught and reduces the rulers of this world to nothing.

This is what the Lord says— the Redeemer and Holy One of Israel— to him who was despised and abhorred by the nation, to the servant of rulers: “Kings will see you and stand up, princes will see and bow down, because of the Lord, who is faithful, the Holy One of Israel, who has chosen you.”

All the splendor has departed from Daughter Zion. Her princes are like deer that find no pasture; in weakness they have fled before the pursuer.

Without pity the Lord has swallowed up all the dwellings of Jacob; in his wrath he has torn down the strongholds of Daughter Judah. He has brought her kingdom and its princes down to the ground in dishonor.

Her gates have sunk into the ground; their bars he has broken and destroyed. Her king and her princes are exiled among the nations, the law is no more, and her prophets no longer find visions from the Lord.

Their princes were brighter than snow and whiter than milk, their bodies more ruddy than rubies, their appearance like lapis lazuli.

Princes have been hung up by their hands; elders are shown no respect.

The king will mourn, the prince will be clothed with despair, and the hands of the people of the land will tremble. I will deal with them according to their conduct, and by their own standards I will judge them. “‘Then they will know that I am the Lord.’”