Isaiah 9:15

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

The aged and honourable, he is the head: and the prophet that teacheth lies, he is the tail.

Cross References

Matthew 24:24

For there shall arise false Christs and false prophets, and shall show great signs and wonders, insomuch as to deceive (if possible) even the elect.

Isaiah 29:10

For the Lord hath mingled for you the spirit of a deep sleep: he will shut up your eyes: he will cover your prophets and princes, that see visions.

Ezekiel 13:19

And they violated me among my people for a handful of barley and a piece of bread, to kill souls which should not die and to save souls alive which should not live telling lies to my people that believe lies.

1 Samuel 9:6

And he said to him: Behold, there is a man of God in this city, a famous man; all that he saith cometh certainly to pass. Now therefore let us go thither; perhaps he may tell us of our way, for which we are come.

Revelation 19:20

And the beast was taken, and with him the false prophet, who wrought signs before him, wherewith he seduced them who received the character of the beast, and who adored his image. These two were cast alive into the pool of fire, burning with brimstone.

1 John 4:1

Dearly beloved, believe not every spirit, but try the spirits if they be of God: because many false prophets are gone out into the world.

Matthew 7:15

Beware of false prophets, who come to you in the clothing of sheep, but inwardly they are ravening wolves.

Malachi 2:9

Therefore have I also made you contemptible, and base before all people, as you have not kept my ways, and have accepted persons in the law.

Hosea 9:8

The watchman of Ephraim was with my God: the prophet is become a snare of ruin upon all his ways, madness is in the house of his God.

Ezekiel 13:22

Because with lies you have made the heart of the just to mourn, whom I have not made sorrowful: and have strengthened the hands of the wicked, that he should not return from his evil way and live.

Jeremiah 23:9

To the prophets: My heart is broken within me, all my bones tremble: I am become as a drunken man, and as a man full of wine, at the presence of the Lord and at the presence of his holy words.

Jeremiah 5:31

The prophets prophesied falsehood, and the priests clapped their hands: and my people loved such things. What then shall be done in the end thereof?

Isaiah 28:17

And I will set judgment in weight, and justice in measure: and hail shall overturn the hope of falsehood, and waters shall overflow its protection.

Isaiah 5:13

Therefore is my people led away captive, because they had not knowledge: and their nobles have perished with famine, and their multitude were dried up with thirst.

Isaiah 3:5

And the people shall rush one upon another, and every man against his neighbour: the child shall make it tumult against the ancient, and the base against the honourable.

1 Kings 13:18

He said to him: I also am a prophet like unto thee. And an angel spoke to me in the word of the Lord, saying: Bring him back with thee into thy house, that he may eat bread, and drink water. He deceived him,

Job 22:8

In the strength of thy arm thou didst possess the land, and being the most mighty thou holdest it.

Isaiah 19:15

And there shall be no work for Egypt, to make head or tail, him that bendeth down, or that holdeth back.

Isaiah 23:9

The Lord of hosts hath designed it, to pull down the pride of all glory and bring to disgrace all the glorious ones of the earth.

Isaiah 28:7

But these also have been ignorant through wine, and through drunkenness have erred: the priest and the prophet have been ignorant through drunkenness. They are swallowed up with wine, they have gone astray in drunkenness, they have not known him that seeth, they have been ignorant of judgment.

Isaiah 28:15

For you have said: We have entered into a league with death, and we have made a covenant with hell. When the overflowing scourge shall pass through, it shall not come upon us: for we have placed our hope in lies, and by falsehood we are protected.

Isaiah 43:27

Thy first father sinned: and thy teachers have transgressed against me.

Isaiah 59:3

For your hands are defiled with blood and your fingers with iniquity: your lips have spoken lies and your tongue uttereth iniquity.

Isaiah 59:4

There is none that calleth upon justice, neither is there any one that judgeth truly: but they trust in a mere nothing and speak vanities. They have conceived labour and brought forth iniquity.

Jeremiah 23:32

Behold, I am against the prophets that have lying dreams, saith the Lord, and tell them and cause my people to err by their lying and by their wonders: when I sent them not nor commanded them, who have not profited this people at all, saith the Lord.

Amos 2:4

Thus saith the Lord: For three crimes of Juda, and for four I will not convert him: because he hath cast away the law of the Lord, and hath not kept his commandments: for their idols have caused them to err, after which their fathers have walked.

Micah 3:5

Thus saith the Lord concerning the prophets that make my people err: that bite with their teeth, and preach peace: and if a man give not something into their mouth, they prepare war against him.

Isaiah 3:12

As for my people, their oppressors have stripped them, and women have ruled over them. O my people, they that call thee blessed, the same deceive thee and destroy the way of thy steps.

Lamentations 2:14

Nun. Thy prophets have seen false and foolish things for thee: and they have not laid open thy iniquity, to excite thee to penance: but they have seen for thee false revelations and banishments.