Isaiah 9:16

KJV1611 – Modern English

For the leaders of this people cause them to err, and those who are led by them are destroyed.

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  • Isa 3:12 : 12 As for my people, children are their oppressors, and women rule over them. O my people, those who lead you cause you to err, and destroy the way of your paths.
  • Matt 15:14 : 14 Let them alone: they are blind leaders of the blind. And if the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch.
  • Matt 23:16-36 : 16 Woe to you, blind guides, who say, Whoever swears by the temple, it is nothing; but whoever swears by the gold of the temple, he is obligated! 17 Fools and blind: for which is greater, the gold, or the temple that sanctifies the gold? 18 And, Whoever swears by the altar, it is nothing; but whoever swears by the gift that is on it, he is guilty. 19 Fools and blind: for which is greater, the gift, or the altar that sanctifies the gift? 20 Therefore, whoever swears by the altar, swears by it and by all things on it. 21 And whoever swears by the temple, swears by it and by him that dwells in it. 22 And he who swears by heaven, swears by the throne of God and by him who sits on it. 23 Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for you pay tithe of mint and anise and cumin, and have omitted the weightier matters of the law, justice, mercy, and faith: these you ought to have done, without leaving the others undone. 24 Blind guides, who strain out a gnat and swallow a camel. 25 Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for you make clean the outside of the cup and dish, but inside they are full of extortion and excess. 26 Blind Pharisee, cleanse first the inside of the cup and dish, that the outside of them may be clean also. 27 Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for you are like whitewashed tombs, which indeed appear beautiful outwardly, but inside are full of dead men's bones and all uncleanness. 28 Even so you also outwardly appear righteous to men, but inside you are full of hypocrisy and lawlessness. 29 Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! because you build the tombs of the prophets and adorn the monuments of the righteous, 30 and say, If we had lived in the days of our fathers, we would not have been partakers with them in the blood of the prophets. 31 Therefore you are witnesses against yourselves that you are the sons of those who murdered the prophets. 32 Fill up, then, the measure of your fathers' guilt. 33 Serpents, brood of vipers, how can you escape the condemnation of hell? 34 Therefore, indeed, I send to you prophets, wise men, and scribes: some of them you will kill and crucify, and some of them you will scourge in your synagogues, and persecute from city to city: 35 that on you may come all the righteous blood shed on the earth, from the blood of righteous Abel to the blood of Zechariah, son of Berechiah, whom you murdered between the temple and the altar. 36 Truly I say to you, all these things shall come upon this generation.
  • Heb 7:7 : 7 And without all contradiction the lesser is blessed by the greater.
  • Num 6:23-26 : 23 Speak to Aaron and his sons, saying, On this wise you shall bless the children of Israel, saying to them, 24 The LORD bless you, and keep you: 25 The LORD make his face shine upon you, and be gracious to you: 26 The LORD lift up his countenance upon you, and give you peace.
  • 1 Kgs 8:55-56 : 55 And he stood, and blessed all the congregation of Israel with a loud voice, saying, 56 Blessed be the LORD, who has given rest to his people Israel, according to all that he promised: there has not failed one word of all his good promise, which he promised by the hand of Moses his servant.
  • 2 Chr 30:27 : 27 Then the priests the Levites arose and blessed the people: and their voice was heard, and their prayer came up to His holy dwelling place, even unto heaven.

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  • Isa 3:12
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    12 As for my people, children are their oppressors, and women rule over them. O my people, those who lead you cause you to err, and destroy the way of your paths.

  • Isa 9:14-15
    2 verses
    78%

    14 Therefore the LORD will cut off from Israel head and tail, branch and rush, in one day.

    15 The elder and honorable, he is the head; and the prophet that teaches lies, he is the tail.

  • Jer 5:31
    74%

    31 The prophets prophesy falsely, and the priests bear rule by their means; and my people love to have it so: and what will you do in the end thereof?

  • Jer 23:1-2
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    74%

    1 Woe to the shepherds who destroy and scatter the sheep of my pasture! says the LORD.

    2 Therefore, thus says the LORD God of Israel against the shepherds who feed my people: You have scattered my flock, and driven them away, and have not attended to them. Behold, I will attend to you for the evil of your deeds, says the LORD.

  • Matt 15:14
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    14 Let them alone: they are blind leaders of the blind. And if the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch.

  • Job 12:24
    74%

    24 He takes away the heart of the chiefs of the people of the earth, and causes them to wander in a wilderness where there is no way.

  • Mic 3:11
    74%

    11 The leaders judge for reward, and the priests teach for hire, and the prophets divine for money: yet will they lean upon the LORD, and say, Is not the LORD among us? No harm can come upon us.

  • Rom 3:16
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    16 'Destruction and misery are in their ways:'

  • Jer 4:9
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    9 And it shall come to pass in that day, says the LORD, that the heart of the king shall perish, and the heart of the princes; and the priests shall be astonished, and the prophets shall wonder.

  • Jer 50:6
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    6 My people have been lost sheep: their shepherds have caused them to go astray, they have turned them away on the mountains: they have gone from mountain to hill, they have forgotten their resting place.

  • Job 12:17
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    17 He leads counselors away plundered, and makes the judges fools.

  • Jer 10:21
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    21 For the pastors have become brutish, and have not sought the LORD: therefore they shall not prosper, and all their flocks shall be scattered.

  • Jer 8:9
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    9 The wise men are ashamed, they are dismayed and taken: behold, they have rejected the word of the LORD; and what wisdom is in them?

  • Prov 11:3
    72%

    3 The integrity of the upright shall guide them, but the crookedness of transgressors shall destroy them.

  • Prov 1:32
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    32 For the turning away of the simple will slay them, and the prosperity of fools will destroy them.

  • 2 Chr 33:9
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    9 So Manasseh led Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem astray, to do worse than the nations whom the LORD had destroyed before the children of Israel.

  • Mic 3:9
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    9 Hear this, I pray you, you leaders of the house of Jacob, and rulers of the house of Israel, who abhor judgment, and pervert all equity.

  • Jer 9:13
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    13 And the LORD says, Because they have forsaken my law which I set before them, and have not obeyed my voice, nor walked in it;

  • Mic 3:5
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    5 Thus says the LORD concerning the prophets who make my people err, who bite with their teeth, and cry, Peace; and he that puts not into their mouths, they even prepare war against him.

  • Zeph 3:4
    71%

    4 Her prophets are light and treacherous people: her priests have polluted the sanctuary, they have done violence to the law.

  • Mal 2:8
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    8 But you have turned out of the way; you have caused many to stumble at the law; you have corrupted the covenant of Levi, says the LORD of hosts.

  • Hos 7:13
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    13 Woe to them! for they have fled from me: destruction to them! because they have transgressed against me: though I have redeemed them, yet they have spoken lies against me.

  • Isa 19:13
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    13 The princes of Zoan are become fools; the princes of Noph are deceived; they have also seduced Egypt, even they who are the foundation of its tribes.

  • Prov 29:1
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    1 He who is often reproved and hardens his neck shall suddenly be destroyed, and that without remedy.

  • Jer 5:4
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    4 Therefore I said, Surely these are poor; they are foolish: for they do not know the way of the LORD, nor the judgment of their God.

  • Jer 23:13
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    13 And I have seen folly in the prophets of Samaria: they prophesied by Baal and caused my people Israel to err.

  • Isa 28:7
    70%

    7 But they also have erred through wine, and through strong drink are out of the way; the priest and the prophet have erred through strong drink, they are swallowed up by wine, they are out of the way through strong drink; they err in vision, they stumble in judgment.

  • Isa 9:17
    70%

    17 Therefore the Lord will have no joy in their young men, nor have mercy on their fatherless and widows; for everyone is a hypocrite and an evildoer, and every mouth speaks folly. For all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still.

  • Ezek 14:9
    70%

    9 And if the prophet is deceived when he has spoken a thing, I the LORD have deceived that prophet, and I will stretch out my hand upon him and will destroy him from the midst of my people Israel.

  • Job 12:19
    70%

    19 He leads princes away plundered, and overthrows the mighty.

  • Jer 6:21
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    21 Therefore thus says the LORD, Behold, I will lay stumbling blocks before this people, and the fathers and the sons together shall fall upon them; the neighbor and his friend shall perish.

  • Jer 18:16
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    16 To make their land desolate, and a perpetual hissing; everyone that passes by shall be astonished, and shake his head.

  • Isa 30:9
    70%

    9 That this is a rebellious people, lying children, children who will not hear the law of the LORD:

  • Ezek 13:3
    70%

    3 Thus says the Lord GOD: Woe to the foolish prophets, who follow their own spirit and have seen nothing!

  • Prov 28:10
    70%

    10 Whoever causes the righteous to go astray in an evil way will fall into his own pit, but the upright shall have good things in possession.

  • Jer 25:36
    70%

    36 A voice of the cry of the shepherds, and a wailing of the leaders of the flock, shall be heard: for the LORD has plundered their pasture.

  • Zech 10:2
    70%

    2 For the idols have spoken vanity, and the diviners have seen a lie and told false dreams; they comfort in vain. Therefore they went their way as a flock; they were troubled because there was no shepherd.

  • Isa 28:13-14
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    70%

    13 But the word of the LORD was to them precept upon precept, precept upon precept; line upon line, line upon line; here a little, and there a little; that they might go, and fall backward, and be broken, and snared, and taken.

    14 Therefore hear the word of the LORD, you scornful men, who rule this people who are in Jerusalem.

  • Jer 9:6
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    6 Your habitation is in the midst of deceit; through deceit they refuse to know me, says the LORD.

  • Ps 5:10
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    10 Destroy them, O God; let them fall by their own counsels; cast them out in the multitude of their transgressions, for they have rebelled against you.

  • Isa 3:8
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    8 For Jerusalem is ruined, and Judah is fallen, because their speech and their actions are against the LORD, to provoke the eyes of His glory.

  • Lam 4:16
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    16 The anger of the LORD has scattered them; he will no longer regard them; they showed no respect to the priests, nor favored the elders.

  • Isa 10:2
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    2 To turn aside the needy from justice and to take away the rights from the poor of my people, that widows may be their prey, and that they may rob the fatherless!

  • Isa 59:8
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    8 The way of peace they do not know; and there is no justice in their paths: they have made crooked paths for themselves; whoever walks therein shall not know peace.

  • Jer 9:3
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    3 And they bend their tongues like a bow for lies; but they are not valiant for the truth on the earth; for they proceed from evil to evil, and they do not know me, says the LORD.

  • Jer 6:13
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    13 For from the least of them even to the greatest of them, everyone is given to covetousness; and from the prophet even to the priest, everyone deals falsely.

  • Deut 27:18
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    18 Cursed be he who makes the blind to wander out of the way. And all the people shall say, Amen.