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Isaiah 9:16

Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

The leaders of the people mislead them, and those they mislead are swallowed up.

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


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


Without a doubt, the inferior is blessed by the superior.


Then the priests and the Levites  stood to bless the people,  and God heard them, and their prayer came into his holy dwelling place  in heaven.


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.


Among the prophets of Samaria I saw something disgusting: They prophesied by Baal and led my people Israel astray.


The Lord says: I will not relent from punishing Judah for three crimes, even four, because they have rejected the instruction of the  Lord and have not kept his statutes. The lies  that their ancestors followed have led them astray.


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.


Therefore the Lord’s anger burned  against his people. He raised his hand against them and struck them; the mountains quaked, and their corpses were like rubbish in the streets. In all this, his anger has not turned away, and his hand is still raised to strike.


There will be nothing to do except crouch among the prisoners or fall among the slain. In all this, his anger has not turned away, and his hand is still raised to strike.


Everyone has to be on guard against his friend. Don’t trust any brother, for every brother will certainly deceive, and every friend spread slander.


Therefore, hand their children over to famine, and give them over to the power of the sword. Let their wives become childless and widowed, their husbands slain by deadly disease, their young men struck down by the sword in battle.





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