Isaiah 3:12

Modern English Version

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

Cross References

2 Kings 11:1

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

Job 30:13

They tear apart my path, they promote my calamity; they have no helper.

Proverbs 28:16

A ruler who lacks understanding is a great oppressor, but he who hates ill-gotten gain will prolong his days.

Ecclesiastes 10:16

Woe to you, O land, when your king is a lad, and your princes feast in the morning!

Isaiah 19:14

The Lord has mingled a perverse spirit in her; so they have caused Egypt to err in her every work, as a drunken man staggers in his vomit.

Isaiah 3:4

I will give youths to be their princes, and unweaned children shall rule over them.

Isaiah 51:22

Thus says your Lord, the Lord, and your God who pleads the cause of His people: Behold, I have taken out of your hand the cup of reeling, even the dregs of the cup of My fury; you will never drink it again.

Jeremiah 5:31

The prophets prophesy falsely, and the priests rule by their own authority; and My people love to have it so. Yet what will you do in the end?

Micah 3:5

Thus says the Lord: Regarding the prophets who mislead My people — the ones who have something to eat proclaim “Peace,” but if one does not feed them, then they prepare for war against him.

Nahum 3:13

Your troops are women in your midst! The gates of your land are wide open to your enemies; fire has devoured your bars.

Matthew 15:14

Leave them alone. They are blind leaders of the blind. And if the blind lead the blind, both will fall into the ditch.”

Matthew 23:13

“Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! You shut the kingdom of heaven against men. For you neither enter yourselves, nor allow those who are entering to go in.