Isaiah 3:12

Geneva Bible (1560)

Children are extorcioners of my people, and women haue rule ouer them: O my people, they that leade thee, cause thee to erre, and destroy the way of thy paths.

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  • Isa 3:4 : 4 And I will appoint children to bee their princes, and babes shall rule ouer them.
  • Isa 9:15-16 : 15 The ancient and the honorable man, he is the head: and the prophet that teacheth lies, he is the taile. 16 For the leaders of the people cause them to erre: and they that are led by them are deuoured.
  • Isa 28:14-15 : 14 Wherefore, heare the worde of the Lorde, ye scornefull men that rule this people, which is at Ierusalem. 15 Because ye haue said, We haue made a couenant with death, and with hell are we at agreement: though a scourge runne ouer, and passe through, it shal not come at vs: for we haue made falshood our refuge, & vnder vanitie are we hid,
  • Jer 5:31 : 31 The Prophets prophesie lies, and ye Priests receiue giftes in their handes, and my people delite therein. What will ye then doe in the ende thereof?
  • Nah 3:13 : 13 Beholde, thy people within thee are women: the gates of thy land shalbe opened vnto thine enemies, and ye fire shall deuoure thy barres.
  • Matt 15:14 : 14 Let them alone, they be the blinde leaders of the blinde: and if the blinde leade ye blinde, both shall fall into the ditche.
  • Matt 23:13 : 13 Wo therefore be vnto you, Scribes and Pharises, hypocrites, because ye shut vp the kingdome of heauen before men: for ye your selues go not in, neither suffer ye them that would enter, to come in.
  • Num 6:23-27 : 23 Speake vnto Aaron and to his sonnes, saying, Thus shal ye blesse the childre of Israel, and say vnto them, 24 The Lord blesse thee, and keepe thee, 25 The Lorde make his face shine vpon thee, and be merciful vnto thee, 26 The Lord lift vp his coutenance vpon thee, and giue thee peace. 27 So they shal put my Name vpo the children of Israel, and I wil blesse them.
  • 2 Kgs 11:1 : 1 Then Athaliah the mother of Ahaziah when she saw that her sonne was dead, she arose, & destroyed all the Kings seede.

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  • Isa 3:4-6
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    4And I will appoint children to bee their princes, and babes shall rule ouer them.

    5The people shalbe oppressed one of another, and euery one by his neighbour: the children shall presume against the ancient, and the vile against the honourable.

    6When euery one shall take holde of his brother of the house of his father, and say, Thou hast clothing: thou shalt bee our prince, and let this fall be vnder thine hand.

  • Isa 9:16
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    16For the leaders of the people cause them to erre: and they that are led by them are deuoured.

  • Mic 2:8-9
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    8But hee that was yesterday my people, is risen vp on the other side, as against an enemie: they spoyle the beautifull garment from them that passe by peaceably, as though they returned from the warre.

    9The women of my people haue ye cast out from their pleasant houses, and from their childre haue ye taken away my glorie continually.

  • Jer 13:21
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    21What wilt thou saye, when hee shall visite thee? (for thou hast taught them to be captaines and as chiefe ouer thee) shall not sorow take thee as a woman in trauaile?

  • Isa 10:1-2
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    1Wo vnto them that decree wicked decrees, and write grieuous things,

    2To keepe backe ye poore from iudgement, and to take away the iudgement of the poore of my people, that widowes may be their pray, and that they may spoyle the fatherlesse.

  • Isa 3:13-16
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    13The Lorde standeth vp to pleade, yea, hee standeth to iudge the people.

    14The Lord shall enter into iudgement with the Ancients of his people & the princes thereof: for ye haue eaten vp the vineyarde: the spoyle of the poore is in your houses.

    15What haue ye to do, that ye beate my people to pieces, and grinde the faces of the poore, saith the Lord, euen tho Lord of hostes?

    16The Lord also saith, Because the daughters of Zion are hautie, and walke with stretched out neckes, and with wandering eyes, walking and minsing as they goe, and making a tinkeling with their feete,

  • Isa 3:11
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    11Woe be to the wicked, it shalbe euill with him: for the reward of his handes shalbe giuen him.

  • Lam 1:5
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    5Her aduersaries are the chiefe, and her enemies prosper: for the Lorde hath afflicted her, for the multitude of her transgressions, and her children are gone into captiuitie before the enemie.

  • Lam 5:8
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    8Seruants haue ruled ouer vs, none would deliuer vs out of their hands.

  • Jer 5:31
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    31The Prophets prophesie lies, and ye Priests receiue giftes in their handes, and my people delite therein. What will ye then doe in the ende thereof?

  • Lam 4:10
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    10The hands of the pitifull women haue sodden their owne children, which were their meate in the destruction of the daughter of my people.

  • Nah 3:10
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    10Yet was she caried awaye, and went into captiuitie: her young children also were dashed in pieces at the head of all the streetes: and they cast lottes for her noble men, and al her myghtie men were bound in chaines.

  • Nah 3:13
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    13Beholde, thy people within thee are women: the gates of thy land shalbe opened vnto thine enemies, and ye fire shall deuoure thy barres.

  • Job 30:12
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    12The youth rise vp at my right hand: they haue pusht my feete, and haue trode on me as on the paths of their destruction.

  • Ezek 22:7
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    7In thee haue they despised father and mother: in the middes of thee haue they oppressed the stranger: in thee haue they vexed the fatherlesse and the widowe.

  • Lam 2:20
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    20Beholde, O Lord, and consider to whome thou hast done thus: shall the women eate their fruite, and children of a spanne long? shall the Priest and the Prophet be slaine in the Sanctuarie of the Lord?

  • Jer 4:22
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    22For my people is foolish, they haue not knowen me: they are foolish children, and haue none vnderstanding: they are wise to doe euill, but to doe well they haue no knowledge.

  • Joel 3:3
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    3And they haue cast lottes for my people, and haue giuen the childe for the harlot, & sold the girle for wine, that they might drinke.

  • Zeph 3:3-4
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    3Her princes within her are as roaring lyons: her iudges are as wolues in the euening, which leaue not the bones till the morow.

    4Her prophets are light, and wicked persons: her priests haue polluted the Sanctuarie: they haue wrested the Lawe.

  • Mic 3:9
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    9Heare this, I pray you, ye heades of the house of Iaakob, and princes of the house of Israel: they abhorre iudgement, and peruert all equitie.

  • Rom 3:16
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    16Destruction & calamity are in their waies,

  • Job 12:24
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    24He taketh away the heartes of the that are the chiefe ouer the people of the earth, & maketh them to wander in the wildernes out of the way.

  • Jer 9:20
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    20Therefore heare the worde of the Lord, O ye women, and let your eares regard the words of his mouth, & teach your daughters to mourne, and euery one her neighbour to lament.

  • Amos 2:7
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    7They gape ouer the head of the poore, in the dust of the earth, and peruert the wayes of the meeke: and a man and his father will goe in to a mayde to dishonour mine holy Name.

  • Jer 4:18
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    18Thy wayes and thine inuentions haue procured thee these things, such is thy wickednesse: therefore it shall be bitter, therefore it shall perce vnto thine heart.

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    11When the boughes of it are drie, they shalbe broken: the women come, and set them on fire: for it is a people of none vnderstading: therefore hee that made them, shall not haue compassion of them, and he that formed them, shall haue no mercie on them.

  • Hos 10:14
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    14Therefore shall a tumult arise among thy people, and all thy munitions shall be destroyed, as Shalman destroyed Beth-arbell in the daie of battell: the mother with the children was dashed in pieces.

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    6For the iniquitie of the daughter of my people is become greater then the sinne of Sodom, that was destroyed as in a moment, & none pitched campes against her.

  • Deut 28:56
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    56The tender and deintie woman among you, which neuer woulde venture to set the sole of her foote vpon the grounde (for her softnesse and tendernesse) shalbe grieued at her husbande that lieth in her bosome, and at her sonne, and at her daughter,

  • Hos 4:5
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    5Therefore shalt thou fall in the day, and the Prophet shall fall with thee in the night, and I will destroy thy mother.

  • Prov 28:15
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    15As a roaring lyon, and an hungry beare, so is a wicked ruler ouer the poore people.

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    11For they haue healed the hurt of the daughter of my people with sweete woordes, saying, Peace, peace, when there is no peace.

  • Jer 18:21
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    21Therefore, deliuer vp their children to famine, and let them drop away by the force of the sworde, and let their wiues be robbed of their children, and be widowes: and let their husbandes be put to death, and let their yong men be slayne by the sword in the battell.

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    6My people hath beene as lost sheepe: their shepheards haue caused them to goe astray, and haue turned them away to the mountaines: they haue gone from mountaine to hil, and forgotten their resting place.

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    4Ah, sinfull nation, a people laden with iniquitie: a seede of the wicked, corrupt children: they haue forsaken the Lord: they haue prouoked the holy one of Israel to anger: they are gone backewarde.

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    13They tooke the yong men to grinde, and the children fell vnder the wood.

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    31O generation, take heede to the worde of the Lorde: haue I bene as a wildernesse vnto Israel? or a lande of darkenesse? Wherefore sayeth my people then, We are lordes, we will come no more vnto thee?

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    23But I will put it into their hande that spoile thee: which haue said to thy soule, Bowe downe, that wee may goe ouer, and thou hast layde thy bodie as the grounde, and as the streete to them that went ouer.

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    16Their children also shall be broken in pieces before their eyes: their houses shall be spoiled, and their wiues rauished.

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    5They smite downe thy people, O Lorde, and trouble thine heritage.

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    18The Lorde is righteous: for I haue rebelled against his commandement: heare, I pray you, all people, and behold my sorowe: my virgins and my yong men are gone into captiuitie.