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Isaiah 9:16

Contemporary English Version (Anglicised) 2012

They had led the nation down the wrong path, and the people were confused.

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The priests and Levites asked God to bless the people, and from his home in heaven, he did.

How will you escape being captured or killed? The Lord is still angry, and he isn't through with you yet!

The LORD has confused Egypt; its leaders have made it stagger and vomit like a drunkard.

Though you are God's people, you are ruled and abused by women and children. You are confused by leaders who guide you down the wrong path.

You are the LORD's people, but you made him terribly angry, and he struck you with his mighty arm. Mountains shook, and dead bodies covered the streets like rubbish. The LORD is still angry, and he is ready to strike you again.

But now I am asking you to let their children starve or be killed in war. Let women lose their husbands and sons to disease and violence.

The prophets in Samaria were disgusting to me, because they preached in the name of Baal and led my people astray.

Jeremiah, all your friends and relatives tell lies about you, so don't trust them.

The LORD said: I will punish Judah for countless crimes, and I won't change my mind. They have rejected my teachings and refused to obey me. They were led astray by the same false gods their ancestors worshipped.

You lying prophets promise security for anyone who gives you food, but disaster for anyone who refuses to feed you. Here is what the LORD says to you prophets:

Stay away from those Pharisees! They are like blind people leading other blind people, and all of them will fall into a ditch.”

Everyone agrees that a person who gives a blessing is greater than the one who receives the blessing.




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