Isaiah 3:12

A Conservative Version

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

Cross References

Isaiah 3:4

And I will give sons to be their rulers, and babes shall rule over them.

Nahum 3:13

Behold, thy people in the midst of thee are women. The gates of thy land are set wide open to thine enemies. The fire has devoured thy bars.

Matthew 15:14

Leave them. They are blind leaders of blind men, and if a blind man leads a blind man, both will fall into a ditch.

Jeremiah 5:31

The prophets prophesy falsely, and the priests bear rule by their means. And my people love to have it so. And what will ye do in the end thereof?

2 Kings 11:1

Now when Athaliah the mother of Ahaziah saw that her son was dead, she arose and destroyed all the royal seed.

Matthew 23:13

Woe to you, scholars and Pharisees, hypocrites! Because ye close up the kingdom of the heavens ahead of men. For ye enter not in, nor do ye allow those who are entering to enter in.

Job 30:13

They mar my path. They set forward my calamity, [even] men who have no helper.

Proverbs 28:16

The ruler who lacks understanding is also a great oppressor, [but] he who hates covetousness shall prolong his days.

Ecclesiastes 10:16

Woe to thee, O land, when thy king is a child, and thy rulers feast in the morning!

Isaiah 19:14

LORD has mingled a spirit of perverseness in the midst of her, and they have caused Egypt to go astray in every work of it, as a drunken man staggers in his vomit.

Isaiah 51:22

Thus says thy lord LORD, and thy God who pleads the cause of his people: Behold, I have taken out of thy hand the cup of staggering, even the bowl of the cup of my wrath. Thou shall no more drink it again.

Micah 3:5

Thus says LORD concerning the prophets who make my people to err, who bite with their teeth, and cry, Peace. And he who does not put into their mouths, they even prepare war against him.