Isaiah 9:16 - Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

¹⁶ for those who lead this people lead them astray, and those who are led by them are swallowed up.

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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 and the Levites arose and blessed the people, and their voice was heard, and their prayer came to his holy habitation in heaven.

Isaiah 10:4

Nothing remains but to crouch among the prisoners or fall among the slain. For all this his anger is not turned away and his hand is stretched out still.

Isaiah 19:14

The Lord has mingled within her a spirit of confusion; and they have made Egypt stagger in all her doings as a drunken man staggers in his vomit.

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 5:25

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

Jeremiah 18:21

Therefore deliver up their children to famine; give them over 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.

Jeremiah 23:13

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

Jeremiah 9:4

Let every one beware of his neighbor, and put no trust in any brother; for every brother is a supplanter, and every neighbor goes about as a slanderer.

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 their lies have led them astray, after which their fathers 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 him who puts nothing into their mouths.

Matthew 15:14

Let them alone; they are blind guides. And if a blind man leads a blind man, both will fall into a pit.”

Hebrews 7:7

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