Isaiah 3:12

New International Version

Youths oppress my people, women rule over them. My people, your guides lead you astray; they turn you from the path.

Cross References

Isaiah 3:4

“I will make mere youths their officials; children will rule over them.”

Nahum 3:13

Look at your troops— they are all weaklings. The gates of your land are wide open to your enemies; fire has consumed the bars of your gates.

Matthew 15:14

Leave them; they are blind guides. If the blind lead the blind, both will fall into a pit.”

Jeremiah 5:31

The prophets prophesy lies, the priests rule by their own authority, and my people love it this way. But what will you do in the end?

2 Kings 11:1

When Athaliah the mother of Ahaziah saw that her son was dead, she proceeded to destroy the whole royal family.

Matthew 23:13

“Woe to you, teachers of the law and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You shut the door of the kingdom of heaven in people’s faces. You yourselves do not enter, nor will you let those enter who are trying to.

Job 30:13

They break up my road; they succeed in destroying me. ‘No one can help him,’ they say.

Proverbs 28:16

A tyrannical ruler practices extortion, but one who hates ill-gotten gain will enjoy a long reign.

Ecclesiastes 10:16

Woe to the land whose king was a servant and whose princes feast in the morning.

Isaiah 19:14

The Lord has poured into them a spirit of dizziness; they make Egypt stagger in all that she does, as a drunkard staggers around in his vomit.

Isaiah 51:22

This is what your Sovereign Lord says, your God, who defends his people: “See, I have taken out of your hand the cup that made you stagger; from that cup, the goblet of my wrath, you will never drink again.

Micah 3:5

This is what the Lord says: “As for the prophets who lead my people astray, they proclaim ‘peace’ if they have something to eat, but prepare to wage war against anyone who refuses to feed them.