Isaiah 9:16 - King James Version with Apocrypha - American Edition

¹⁶ For the leaders of this people cause them to err; and they that are led of them are destroyed.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹⁶ For the leaders of this people cause them to err; and they that are led of them are destroyed.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹⁶ For they who lead this people cause them to err, and they who are led [astray] by them are swallowed up (destroyed).

American Standard Version (1901)

¹⁶ For they that lead this people cause them to err; and they that are led of them are destroyed.

Common English Bible

¹⁶ But this people’s leaders were misleading, and those being led were confused.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹⁶ And those who deceitfully praise this people, and those who are praised, will be thrown down violently.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹⁶ And they that call this people blessed shall cause them to err: and they that are called blessed shall be thrown down headlong.

Isaiah 9:16 Cross References

2 Chronicles 30:27

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.

Isaiah 10:4

Without me they shall bow down under the prisoners, and they shall fall under the slain. For all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still.

Isaiah 19:14

The Lord hath mingled a perverse spirit in the midst thereof: and they have caused Egypt to err in every work thereof, as a drunken man staggereth in his vomit.

Isaiah 3:12

As for my people, children are their oppressors, and women rule over them. O my people, they which lead thee cause thee to err, and destroy the way of thy paths.

Isaiah 5:25

Therefore is the anger of the Lord kindled against his people, and he hath stretched forth his hand against them, and hath smitten them: and the hills did tremble, and their carcasses were torn in the midst of the streets. For all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still.

Jeremiah 18:21

Therefore deliver up their children to the famine, and pour out their blood by the force of the sword; and let their wives be bereaved of their children, and be widows; and let their men be put to death; let their young men be slain by the sword in battle.

Jeremiah 23:13

And I have seen folly in the prophets of Samaria; they prophesied in Ba´al, and caused my people Israel to err.

Jeremiah 9:4

Take ye heed every one of his neighbor, and trust ye not in any brother: for every brother will utterly supplant, and every neighbor will walk with slanders.

Amos 2:4

Thus saith 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 saith the Lord concerning the prophets that make my people err, that bite with their teeth, and cry, Peace; and he that putteth not into their mouths, they even prepare war against him:

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.

Hebrews 7:7

And without all contradiction the less is blessed of the better.