Isaiah 9:16 Those who guide this people mislead them, and those who are guided are led astray.

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Parallel Verses

New International Version
Those who guide this people mislead them, and those who are guided are led astray.

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 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.

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.

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.

Young's Literal Translation
And the eulogists of this people are causing to err, And its eulogised ones are consumed.

Cross References

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

Matthew 23:16
Woe to you, you blind guides, which say, Whoever shall swear by the temple, it is nothing; but whoever shall swear by the gold of the temple, he is a debtor!

Matthew 23:24
You blind guides, which strain at a gnat, and swallow a camel.

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

Isaiah 19:14
The LORD has mingled a perverse spirit in the middle thereof: and they have caused Egypt to err in every work thereof, as a drunken man staggers in his vomit.

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

Amos 2:4
Thus said the LORD; For three transgressions of Judah, and for four, I will not turn away the punishment thereof; because they have despised the law of the LORD, and have not kept his commandments, and their lies caused them to err, after the which their fathers have walked:

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

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Commentaries

Matthew Henry's Commentary

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.

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown

16. leaders, &c.—(See Isa 3:12, Margin, and see on [700]Isa 3:12.)