Isaiah 9:16 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

¹⁶ for those who led this people led them astray, and those who were led by them were left in confusion.

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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.

Isaiah 9:16 Cross References

Matthew 15:14

Let them alone; they are blind guides of the blind. And if one blind person guides another, both will fall into a pit.”

Isaiah 3:12

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

Hebrews 7:7

It is beyond dispute that the inferior is blessed by the superior.

2 Chronicles 30:27

Then the priests and the Levites stood up and blessed the people, and their voice was heard; their prayer came to his holy dwelling in heaven.

Isaiah 19:14

The Lord has poured into them a spirit of confusion; and they have made Egypt stagger in all its doings as a drunkard staggers around in his vomit.

Jeremiah 23:13

In the prophets of Samaria I saw a disgusting thing: they prophesied by Baal and led my people Israel astray.

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 instruction 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.

Isaiah 5:25

Therefore the anger of the Lord was kindled against his people, and he stretched out his hand against them and struck them; the mountains quaked, and their corpses were like refuse in the streets. For all this his anger has not turned away, and his hand is stretched out still.

Isaiah 10:4

so as not to crouch among the prisoners or fall among the slain? For all this his anger has not turned away; his hand is stretched out still.

Jeremiah 9:4

Beware of your neighbors, and put no trust in any of your kin, for all your kin are supplanters, and every neighbor goes around like a slanderer.

Jeremiah 18:21

Therefore give their children over to famine; hurl them out to the power of the sword; let their wives become childless and widowed. May their men meet death by pestilence, their youths be slain by the sword in battle.