Verse (Click for Chapter) New International Version Those who guide this people mislead them, and those who are guided are led astray. New Living Translation For the leaders of the people have misled them. They have led them down the path of destruction. English Standard Version for those who guide this people have been leading them astray, and those who are guided by them are swallowed up. Berean Study Bible For those who guide this people mislead them, and those they mislead 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 brought to confusion. King James Bible For the leaders of this people cause them to err; and they that are led of them are destroyed. Christian Standard Bible The leaders of the 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. Good News Translation Those who lead these people have misled them and totally confused them. Holman Christian Standard Bible The leaders of the people mislead them, and those they mislead are swallowed up. International Standard Version For those who guide this people have been leading them astray, and those who are guided by them are swallowed up. NET Bible The leaders of this nation were misleading people, and the people being led were destroyed. New Heart English Bible For those who lead this people lead them astray; and those who are led by them are destroyed. GOD'S WORD® Translation Those who guide these people lead them astray. Those who are guided by them will be destroyed. JPS Tanakh 1917 For they that lead this people cause them to err; And they that are led of them are destroyed. New American Standard 1977 For those who guide this people are leading them astray; And those who are guided by them are brought to confusion. Jubilee Bible 2000 For the governors of this people are deceivers, and those who are governed by them are lost. King James 2000 Bible For the leaders of this people cause them to err; and they that are led by them are destroyed. American King James Version For the leaders of this people cause them to err; and they that are led of them are destroyed. American Standard Version For they that lead this people cause them to err; and they that 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. Darby Bible Translation For the guides of this people mislead [them]; and they that are guided by them are swallowed up. English Revised Version For they that lead this people cause them to err; and they 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. World English Bible For those who lead this people lead them astray; and those who are led by them are destroyed. Young's Literal Translation And the eulogists of this people are causing to err, And its eulogised ones are consumed. Study Bible Judgment Against Israel's Hypocrisy…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.… Cross References Matthew 15:14 Disregard them! They are blind guides. If a blind man leads a blind man, both will fall into a pit." Matthew 23:16 Woe to you, blind guides! You say, 'If anyone swears by the temple, it means nothing; but if anyone swears by the gold of the temple, he is bound by his oath.' Matthew 23:24 You blind guides! You strain out a gnat but swallow a camel. Isaiah 3:12 Youths oppress My people, and women rule over them. O My people, your guides mislead you; they turn you from your paths. Isaiah 19:14 The LORD has poured into her a spirit of confusion. Egypt has been led astray in all she does, as a drunkard staggers around in his vomit. Jeremiah 23:13 "Among the prophets of Samaria I saw an offensive thing: They prophesied by Baal and led My people Israel astray. Amos 2:4 This is what the LORD says: "For three transgressions of Judah, even four, I will not revoke My judgment, because they have rejected the law of the LORD and have not kept His statutes; they have been led astray by the lies in which their forefathers walked. Micah 3:5 This is what the LORD says: "As for the prophets who lead my people astray, who proclaim peace while they chew with their teeth, but declare war against one who puts nothing in their mouths: Treasury of Scripture For the leaders of this people cause them to err; and they that are led of them are destroyed. the leaders, etc. or, they that call them blessed Isaiah 3:12 As for my people, children are their oppressors, and women rule over … Matthew 15:14 Let them alone: they be blind leaders of the blind. And if the blind … Matthew 23:16 Woe to you, you blind guides, which say, Whoever shall swear by the … led of them. or, called blessed of them Numbers 6:23-26 Speak to Aaron and to his sons, saying, On this wise you shall bless … 1 Kings 8:55,56 And he stood, and blessed all the congregation of Israel with a loud … 2 Chronicles 30:27 Then the priests the Levites arose and blessed the people: and their … Hebrews 7:7 And without all contradiction the less is blessed of the better. destroyed. Heb. swallowed up Verse 16. - The leaders of this people cause them to err (comp. Isaiah 3:12). Both the peoples were led into idolatry by their rulers, but Israel especially. Jeroboam, the first king, introduced the calf-worship, and his successors from first to last persisted in his sin. Ahab added the still grosset idolatry of Baal. Those who held high position under the kings were equally bad examples to the people (see above, Isaiah 1:2:3). Are destroyed. First, morally corrupted and debased, then physically given over to destruction - slaughtered by Philistines, Syrians, and Assyrians. 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) "qui ex hoc populo beati dicuntur, absorbebuntur", Vatablus. 16. leaders, etc.—(See Isa 3:12, Margin, and see on [700]Isa 3:12.)9:8-21 Those are ripening apace for ruin, whose hearts are unhumbled under humbling providences. For that which God designs, in smiting us, is, to turn us to himself; and if this point be not gained by lesser judgments, greater may be expected. The leaders of the people misled them. We have reason to be afraid of those that speak well of us, when we do ill. Wickedness was universal, all were infected with it. They shall be in trouble, and see no way out; and when men's ways displease the Lord, he makes even their friends to be at war with them. God would take away those they thought to have help from. Their rulers were the head. Their false prophets were the tail and the rush, the most despicable. In these civil contests, men preyed on near relations who were as their own flesh. The people turn not to Him who smites them, therefore he continues to smite: for when God judges, he will overcome; and the proudest, stoutest sinner shall either bend or break. 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