Isaiah 9:15 - New Revised Standard Version

¹⁵ elders and dignitaries are the head, and prophets who teach lies are the tail;

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹⁵ The ancient and honourable, he is the head; and the prophet that teacheth lies, he is the tail.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹⁵ The elderly and honored man, he is the head; and the prophet who teaches lies, he is the tail.

American Standard Version (1901)

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

Common English Bible

¹⁵ (Elders and celebrities are the head; prophets who teach lies are the tail.)

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹⁵ The long-lived and honorable, he is the head; and the prophet who teaches lies, he is the tail.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹⁵ The aged and honourable, he is the head: and the prophet that teacheth lies, he is the tail.

Isaiah 9:15 Cross References

1 Kings 13:18

Then the other said to him, “I also am a prophet as you are, and an angel spoke to me by the word of the Lord: Bring him back with you into your house so that he may eat food and drink water.” But he was deceiving him.

Job 22:8

The powerful possess the land, and the favored live in it.

Isaiah 19:15

Neither head nor tail, palm branch or reed, will be able to do anything for Egypt.

Isaiah 23:9

The Lord of hosts has planned it— to defile the pride of all glory, to shame all the honored of the earth.

Isaiah 28:15

Because you have said, “We have made a covenant with death, and with Sheol we have an agreement; when the overwhelming scourge passes through it will not come to us; for we have made lies our refuge, and in falsehood we have taken shelter”;

Isaiah 28:17

And I will make justice the line, and righteousness the plummet; hail will sweep away the refuge of lies, and waters will overwhelm the shelter.

Isaiah 28:7

These also reel with wine and stagger with strong drink; the priest and the prophet reel with strong drink, they are confused with wine, they stagger with strong drink; they err in vision, they stumble in giving judgment.

Isaiah 29:10

For the Lord has poured out upon you a spirit of deep sleep; he has closed your eyes, you prophets, and covered your heads, you seers.

Isaiah 3:12

My people—children are their oppressors, and women rule over them. O my people, your leaders mislead you, and confuse the course of your paths.

Isaiah 3:5

The people will be oppressed, everyone by another and everyone by a neighbor; the youth will be insolent to the elder, and the base to the honorable.

Isaiah 43:27

Your first ancestor sinned, and your interpreters transgressed against me.

Isaiah 5:13

Therefore my people go into exile without knowledge; their nobles are dying of hunger, and their multitude is parched with thirst.

Isaiah 59:3

For your hands are defiled with blood, and your fingers with iniquity; your lips have spoken lies, your tongue mutters wickedness.

Isaiah 59:4

No one brings suit justly, no one goes to law honestly; they rely on empty pleas, they speak lies, conceiving mischief and begetting iniquity.

Jeremiah 23:32

See, I am against those who prophesy lying dreams, says the Lord, and who tell them, and who lead my people astray by their lies and their recklessness, when I did not send them or appoint them; so they do not profit this people at all, says the Lord.

Jeremiah 23:9

Concerning the prophets: My heart is crushed within me, all my bones shake; I have become like a drunkard, like one overcome by wine, because of the Lord and because of his holy words.

Jeremiah 5:31

the prophets prophesy falsely, and the priests rule as the prophets direct; my people love to have it so, but what will you do when the end comes?

Lamentations 2:14

Your prophets have seen for you false and deceptive visions; they have not exposed your iniquity to restore your fortunes, but have seen oracles for you that are false and misleading.

Ezekiel 13:19

You have profaned me among my people for handfuls of barley and for pieces of bread, putting to death persons who should not die and keeping alive persons who should not live, by your lies to my people, who listen to lies.

Ezekiel 13:22

Because you have disheartened the righteous falsely, although I have not disheartened them, and you have encouraged the wicked not to turn from their wicked way and save their lives;

Hosea 9:8

The prophet is a sentinel for my God over Ephraim, yet a fowler's snare is on all his ways, and hostility in the house of his God.

Amos 2:4

Thus says the Lord: For three transgressions of Judah, and for four, I will not revoke the punishment; because they have rejected the law of the Lord, and have not kept his statutes, but they have been led astray by the same lies after which their ancestors walked.

Micah 3:5

Thus says the Lord concerning the prophets who lead my people astray, who cry “Peace” when they have something to eat, but declare war against those who put nothing into their mouths.

Malachi 2:9

and so I make you despised and abased before all the people, inasmuch as you have not kept my ways but have shown partiality in your instruction.

Matthew 24:24

For false messiahs and false prophets will appear and produce great signs and omens, to lead astray, if possible, even the elect.

Matthew 7:15

“Beware of false prophets, who come to you in sheep's clothing but inwardly are ravenous wolves.

1 John 4:1

Beloved, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits to see whether they are from God; for many false prophets have gone out into the world.

Revelation 19:20

And the beast was captured, and with it the false prophet who had performed in its presence the signs by which he deceived those who had received the mark of the beast and those who worshiped its image. These two were thrown alive into the lake of fire that burns with sulfur.

1 Samuel 9:6

But he said to him, “There is a man of God in this town; he is a man held in honor. Whatever he says always comes true. Let us go there now; perhaps he will tell us about the journey on which we have set out.”