Isaiah 9:16

The Holy Bible, Berean Study Bible

Contextual Overview

⁸The Lord has sent a message against Jacob, and it has fallen upon Israel. ⁹All the people will know it-Ephraim and the dwellers of Samaria. With pride and arrogance of heart they will say: ¹⁰"The bricks have fallen, but we will rebuild with finished stone; the sycamores have been felled, but we will replace them with cedars." ¹¹The LORD has raised up the foes of Rezin against him and joined his enemies together. ¹²Aram from the east and Philistia from the west have devoured Israel with open mouths. Despite all this, His anger is not turned away; His hand is still upraised. ¹³But the people did not return to Him who struck them; they did not seek the LORD of Hosts. ¹⁴So the LORD will cut off Israel's head and tail, both palm branch and reed in a single day. ¹⁵The head is the elder and the honorable man and the tail is the prophet who teaches lies. ¹⁶For those who guide this people mislead them, and those they mislead are swallowed up.¹⁷Therefore the Lord takes no pleasure in their young men; He has no compassion on their fatherless and widows. For every one of them is godless and wicked, and every mouth speaks folly. Despite all this, His anger is not turned away; His hand is still upraised.

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
Everything that lives and moves will be food for you; just as I gave you the green plants, I now give you all things.

Genesis 9:4
But you must not eat meat with its lifeblood still in it.

Genesis 9:8
Then God said to Noah and his sons with him,

Genesis 9:9
"Behold, I now establish My covenant with you and your descendants after you,

Genesis 9:10
and with every living creature that was with you-the birds, the livestock, and every beast of the earth-every living thing that came out of the ark.

Genesis 9:11
And I establish My covenant with you: Never again will all life be cut off by the waters of a flood; never again will there be a flood to destroy the earth."

Genesis 9:21
But when he drank some of its wine, he became drunk and uncovered himself inside his tent.

Genesis 9:22
And Ham, the father of Canaan, saw his father's nakedness and told his two brothers outside.

Genesis 17:7
I will establish My covenant as an everlasting covenant between Me and you and your descendants after you, to be your God and the God of your descendants after you.

Genesis 17:13
Whether they are born in your household or purchased, they must be circumcised. My covenant in your flesh will be 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.