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Isaiah 9:16

For those who lead this people are causing them to go astray; And those who are led [astray] by them are swallowed up.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Backsliders;   Isaiah;   Israel, Prophecies Concerning;   Minister, Christian;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Prophets, False;  

Dictionaries:

- Fausset Bible Dictionary - Saviour;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Isaiah;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Rezin;   The Hawker's Poor Man's Concordance And Dictionary - Counsellor;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Isaiah;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Anger;   Hypocrisy;   Judaism;   Resurrection;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
The leaders of the people mislead them,and those they mislead are swallowed up.
Hebrew Names Version
For those who lead this people cause them to err; and those who are led of them are destroyed.
King James Version
For the leaders of this people cause them to err; and they that are led of them are destroyed.
English Standard Version
for those who guide this people have been leading them astray, and those who are guided by them are swallowed up.
New American Standard Bible
For those who guide this people are leading them astray; And those who are guided by them are confused.
New Century Version
Those who led the people led them in the wrong direction, and those who followed them were destroyed.
World English Bible
For those who lead this people cause them to err; and those who are led of them are destroyed.
Geneva Bible (1587)
For the leaders of the people cause them to erre: and they that are led by them are deuoured.
Legacy Standard Bible
For those who guide this people are leading them astray;And those who are guided by them are brought to confusion.
Berean Standard Bible
For those who guide this people mislead them, and those they mislead are swallowed up.
Contemporary English Version
They had led the nation down the wrong path, and the people were confused.
Complete Jewish Bible
Therefore Adonai takes no joy in their young men and has no compassion on their orphans and widows; for everyone is ungodly and does evil, every mouth speaks foolishly. Even after all this, his anger remains, his upraised hand still threatens.
Darby Translation
For the guides of this people mislead [them]; and they that are guided by them are swallowed up.
Easy-to-Read Version
Their guides are leading them the wrong way, so those who follow them will be destroyed.
George Lamsa Translation
For the leaders of this people shall cause them to err and cause them to sink low.
Good News Translation
Those who lead these people have misled them and totally confused them.
Lexham English Bible
And the leaders of this people were misleading them, and those who were led were confused.
Literal Translation
For this people's leaders led them astray, and its guided ones are swallowed up.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
For all they which enfourme the people that they be in a right case, soch be disceauers. Soch as men thynke also to be perfecte amonge these, are but cast awaye.
American Standard Version
For they that lead this people cause them to err; and they that are led of them are destroyed.
Bible in Basic English
For the guides of this people are the cause of their wandering from the right way, and those who are guided by them come to destruction.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
Therefore the Lord shall have no joy in their young men, neither shall He have compassion on their fatherless and widows; for every one is ungodly and an evil-doer, and every mouth speaketh wantonness. For all this His anger is not turned away, but His hand is stretched out still.
King James Version (1611)
For the leaders of this people cause them to erre, and they that are ledde of them, are destroyed.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
For the guides of this people are deceauers, and those that be gouerned are vtterly lost.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And they that pronounce this people blessed shall mislead them; and they mislead them that they may devour them.
English Revised Version
For they that lead this people cause them to err; and they that are led of them are destroyed.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
And thei that blessen his puple, schulen be disseyueris, and thei that ben blessid, schulen be cast doun.
Update Bible Version
For those that lead this people cause them to err; and those that are led of them are destroyed.
Webster's Bible Translation
For the leaders of this people cause [them] to err; and [they that are] led by them [are] destroyed.
New English Translation
The leaders of this nation were misleading people, and the people being led were destroyed.
New King James Version
For the leaders of this people cause them to err, And those who are led by them are destroyed.
New Living Translation
For the leaders of the people have misled them. They have led them down the path of destruction.
New Life Bible
For those who lead these people are leading them from the right way, and those who are led by them are going the wrong way.
New Revised Standard
for those who led this people led them astray, and those who were led by them were left in confusion.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
And they who should have led this people forward have been causing them to stray, - And, they who are led of them are destroyed,
Douay-Rheims Bible
And they that call this people blessed, shall cause them to err: and they that are called blessed, shall be thrown down, headlong.
Revised Standard Version
for those who lead this people lead them astray, and those who are led by them are swallowed up.
Young's Literal Translation
And the eulogists of this people are causing to err, And its eulogised ones are consumed.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
For those who guide this people are leading them astray; And those who are guided by them are brought to confusion.

Contextual Overview

8The Lord sends a word (message) against Jacob, And it falls on Israel [the ten northern tribes, the kingdom of Ephraim]. 9And all the people know it, That is, Ephraim and the inhabitants of Samaria [its capital], Who say in pride and arrogance of heart: 10"The bricks have fallen down, But we will rebuild [all the better] with ashlar (hewed stones); The sycamores have been cut down, But we will replace them with [expensive] cedars." 11Therefore the LORD raises against Ephraim adversaries from Rezin [king of Aram] And spurs their enemies on, 12The Arameans on the east and the Philistines on the west; And they devour Israel with gaping jaws. In spite of all this, God's anger does not turn away But His hand is still stretched out [in judgment]. 13Yet the people do not turn back [in repentance] to Him who struck them, Nor do they seek the LORD of hosts [as their most essential need]. 14Therefore the LORD cuts off head and tail [the highest and the lowest] from Israel, Both [the high] palm branch and [the low] bulrush in one day. 15The elderly and honorable man, he is the head; And the prophet who teaches lies, he is the tail. 16For those who lead this people are causing them to go astray; And those who are led [astray] by them are swallowed up.17Therefore the Lord does not rejoice over their young men, Nor does He have compassion on their fatherless or their widows; For every one of them is godless and an evildoer, And every mouth is speaking foolishness. In spite of all this, God's anger does not turn away But His hand is still stretched out [in judgment].

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

the leaders: etc. or, they that call them blessed, Isaiah 3:12, Matthew 15:14, Matthew 23:16-36

led of them: or, called blessed of them, Numbers 6:23-26, 1 Kings 8:55, 1 Kings 8:56, 2 Chronicles 30:27, Hebrews 7:7

destroyed: Heb. swallowed up

Reciprocal: Isaiah 28:7 - err in Jeremiah 14:16 - the people Jeremiah 18:15 - caused Jeremiah 23:13 - and Lamentations 2:14 - prophets Ezekiel 14:11 - the house Ezekiel 44:12 - they ministered Amos 2:4 - and their Micah 3:5 - concerning Micah 6:16 - the works Malachi 2:8 - ye have caused Matthew 7:15 - false Luke 6:39 - Can John 3:10 - Art Hebrews 9:7 - errors Revelation 22:15 - whosoever

Cross-References

Genesis 9:3
"Every moving thing that lives shall be food for you; I give you everything, as I gave you the green plants and vegetables.
Genesis 9:4
"But you shall not eat meat along with its life, that is, its blood.
Genesis 9:8
Then God spoke to Noah and to his sons with him, saying,
Genesis 9:9
"Now behold, I am establishing My covenant (binding agreement, solemn promise) with you and with your descendants after you
Genesis 9:10
and with every living creature that is with you—the birds, the livestock, and the wild animals of the earth along with you, of everything that comes out of the ark—every living creature of the earth.
Genesis 9:11
"I will establish My covenant with you: Never again shall all flesh be cut off by the water of a flood, nor shall there ever again be a flood to destroy and ruin the earth."
Genesis 9:21
He drank some of the wine and became drunk, and he was uncovered and lay exposed inside his tent.
Genesis 9:22
Ham, the father of Canaan, saw [by accident] the nakedness of his father, and [to his father's shame] told his two brothers outside.
Genesis 17:7
"I will establish My covenant between Me and you and your descendants after you throughout their generations for an everlasting covenant, to be God to you and to your descendants after you.
Genesis 17:13
"A servant who is born in your house or one who is purchased with your money must be circumcised; and [the sign of] My covenant shall be in your flesh for an everlasting covenant.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

For the leaders of this people cause [them] to err,.... Or, "who bless this people", as the Septuagint and Arabic versions; and so the Targum,

"who praise this people;''

that call them blessed, pronounce them happy, see Malachi 3:15 and promise them happiness, both in this world and that to come, though guilty of notorious sins, and live a vicious course of life; and so harden them in their iniquities, and cause them to wander more and more from the way of truth and righteousness; and lead them unto, and leave them in, fatal mistakes about their state and condition. These seem to design the ecclesiastical leaders of the people, the blind leaders of the blind, see Isaiah 3:12:

and [they that are] led of them [are] destroyed; or, "they" that "are blessed of them are swallowed up" c; and so irrecoverably lost; the deceivers and the deceived perish together; as it is sinful in teachers and leaders of the people to teach them false things, and lead them out of the way, it is criminal in the people to be led and taught by them, who ought to take care what they hear and receive; and therefore both are righteously punished; for the words are a reason why the Lord would cut off both the one and the other.

c ומאשריו מבלעים "qui ex hoc populo beati dicuntur, absorbebuntur", Vatablus.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

For the leaders of this people ... - Note, Isaiah 3:12. Hebrew ‘They that call this people blessed’ - referring more particularly to the false prophets.

They that are led of them - Hebrew, ‘They that are called blessed by them.’

Are destroyed - Hebrew, ‘Are swallowed up;’ see the note at Isaiah 3:12. They are ruined; or swallowed up as in a vast whirlpool or vortex.


 
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