Isaiah 9:15

Modern English Version

The elder and honorable man, he is the head; and the prophet that teaches lies, he is the tail.

Cross References

1 Kings 13:18

He said to him, “I am a prophet like you, and an angel spoke to me by the word of the Lord, saying, ‘Bring him back with you into your house so that he may eat bread and drink water.’ ” But he had lied to him.

Job 22:8

But as for the mighty man, he possessed the earth, and the honorable man lived in it.

Isaiah 19:15

Nor shall there be any work for Egypt, which its head or tail, its branch or bulrush, may do.

Isaiah 23:9

The Lord of Hosts has purposed it, to stain the pride of all glory and to bring into contempt all the honorable of the earth.

Isaiah 28:15

because you have said, “We have made a covenant with death, and with Sheol we are in agreement. The overflowing scourge shall not come to us when it passes through, for we have made lies our refuge and under falsehood we have hidden ourselves.”

Isaiah 28:17

I shall make justice the measuring line and righteousness the plummet; then the hail shall sweep away the refuge of lies and the waters shall overflow the hiding place.

Isaiah 28:7

But they also have erred through wine and stagger from strong drink; the priest and the prophet have erred through strong drink, they are confused by wine, they stagger from strong drink; they err while having visions, they stumble when rendering judgment.

Isaiah 29:10

For the Lord has poured out on you the spirit of deep sleep and has closed your eyes, the prophets; and He has covered your heads, the seers.

Isaiah 3:12

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.

Isaiah 3:5

The people shall be oppressed, every one by another, and every one by his neighbor; the youth shall behave himself proudly against the elder, and the inferior against the honorable.

Isaiah 43:27

Your first father has sinned, and your teachers have transgressed against Me.

Isaiah 5:13

Therefore My people go into captivity because they have no knowledge; and their honorable men are famished, and their multitude dried up with thirst.

Isaiah 59:3

For your hands are defiled with blood and your fingers with iniquity; your lips have spoken lies, your tongue has muttered perverseness.

Isaiah 59:4

No one calls for justice, nor does anyone plead for truth. They trust in vanity and speak lies; they conceive mischief and bring forth iniquity.

Jeremiah 23:32

Behold, I am against those who prophesy false dreams, says the Lord, and recount them and cause My people to err by their lies and reckless boasting. Yet I did not send them or command them. Therefore they shall not profit this people at all, says the Lord.

Jeremiah 23:9

My heart is broken within me, because of the prophets; all my bones shake; I am like a drunken man, like a man overcome by wine, because of the Lord, and because of His holy words.

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?

Lamentations 2:14

Your prophets have seen for you false and deceptive visions; they have not revealed your iniquity, to bring back your captives, but have seen for you oracles that are false and misleading.

Ezekiel 13:19

And you pollute Me among My people for handfuls of barley and pieces of bread to slay the souls of those who should not die and to save the souls alive of those who should not live by your lying to My people who hear your lies.

Ezekiel 13:22

Because with lies you have made the heart of the righteous sad, whom I have not made sad, and strengthened the hands of the wicked that he should not turn from his wicked way and save his life,

Hosea 9:8

The watchman of Ephraim is a prophet for my God; yet a fowler’s snare is on all his ways, and hatred in the house of his God.

Amos 2:4

Thus says the Lord: For three transgressions of Judah, and for four, I will not revoke the punishment, because they have rejected the law of the Lord, and have not kept His commandments. The lies which their fathers followed have led them astray.

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.

Malachi 2:9

So I have made you contemptible and base before all the people, because you have not kept My ways, but have shown partiality in the law.

Matthew 24:24

For false christs and false prophets will arise and show great signs and wonders to deceive, if possible, even the elect.

Matthew 7:15

“Beware of false prophets who come to you in sheep’s clothing, but inwardly they are ravenous wolves.

1 John 4:1

Beloved, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits to see whether they are from God, because many false prophets have gone out into the world.

Revelation 19:20

But the beast was captured and with him the false prophet who worked signs in his presence, by which he deceived those who received the mark of the beast and those who worshipped his image. These two were thrown alive into the lake of fire that burns with brimstone.

1 Samuel 9:6

He said to him, “Behold, there is in this city a man of God, and he is highly respected. All that he speaks surely comes about. Now let us go there. Perhaps he can show us the way that we should go.”