Isaiah 3:12

Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

Youths oppress my people, and women rule over them. My people, your leaders mislead you; they confuse the direction of your paths.

Cross References

Isaiah 3:4

‘I will make youths their leaders, and unstable rulers  will govern them.’

Nahum 3:13

Look, your troops are like women among you; your land’s city gates are wide open to your enemies. Fire will devour the bars of your gates.

Matthew 15:14

Leave them alone! They are blind guides.   And if the blind guide the blind, both will fall into a pit.’

Jeremiah 5:31

The prophets prophesy falsely, and the priests rule by their own authority. My people love it like this. But what will you do at the end of it?

2 Kings 11:1

When Athaliah,  Ahaziah’s mother,  saw that her son was dead,  she proceeded to annihilate all the royal heirs.

Matthew 23:13

‘Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! You shut the door of the kingdom of heaven in people’s faces. For you don’t go in, and you don’t allow those entering to go in.   ,

Job 30:13

They tear up my path; they contribute to my destruction, without anyone to help them.

Proverbs 28:16

A leader who lacks understanding is very oppressive, but one who hates dishonest profit prolongs his life.

Ecclesiastes 10:16

Woe to you, land, when your king is a youth and your princes feast in the morning.

Isaiah 19:14

The Lord has mixed within her a spirit of confusion. The leaders have made Egypt stagger in all she does, as a drunkard staggers in his vomit.

Isaiah 51:22

This is what your Lord says – the Lord, even your God, who defends his people   – ‘Look, I have removed from your hand the cup that causes staggering; that goblet, the cup of my fury. You will never drink it again.

Micah 3:5

This is what the  Lord  says concerning the prophets who lead my people astray, who proclaim  peace when they have food to sink their teeth into but declare war against the one who puts nothing in their mouths.