Isaiah 9:16 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

¹⁶ For they that lead 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 habitation, even unto heaven.

Isaiah 10:4

They shall only bow down under the prisoners, and 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 spirit of perverseness in the midst of her: and they have caused Egypt to go astray 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 carcases were as refuse 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 give them over to the power of the sword; and let their wives become childless, and widows; and let their men be slain of death, and their young men smitten of the sword in battle.

Jeremiah 23:13

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

Jeremiah 9:4

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

Amos 2:4

Thus saith the LORD: For three transgressions of Judah, yea, for four, I will not turn away the punishment thereof; because they have rejected the law of the LORD, and have not kept his statutes, and their lies have caused them to err, after the which their fathers did walk:

Micah 3:5

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

Matthew 15:14

Let them alone: they are blind guides. And if the blind guide the blind, both shall fall into a pit.

Hebrews 7:7

But without any dispute the less is blessed of the better.