Isaiah 3:12

The English Standar Version

My people -- infants are their oppressors, and women rule over them. O my people, your guides mislead you and they have swallowed up[5] the course of your paths.

Cross References

2 Kings 11:1

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

Job 30:13

They break up my path; they promote my calamity; they need no one to help them.

Proverbs 28:16

A ruler who lacks understanding is a cruel oppressor, but he who hates unjust gain will prolong his days.

Ecclesiastes 10:16

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

Isaiah 19:14

The LORD has mingled within her a spirit of confusion, and they will make Egypt stagger in all its deeds, as a drunken man staggers in his vomit.

Isaiah 3:4

And I will make boys their princes, and infants[2] shall rule over them.

Isaiah 51:22

Thus says your Lord, the LORD, your God who pleads the cause of his people: "Behold, I have taken from your hand the cup of staggering; the bowl of my wrath you shall drink no more;

Jeremiah 5:31

the prophets prophesy falsely, and the priests rule at their direction; my people love to have it so, but what will you do when the end comes?

Micah 3:5

Thus says the LORD concerning the prophets who lead my people astray, who cry "Peace" when they have something to eat, but declare war against him who puts nothing into their mouths.

Nahum 3:13

Behold, 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

Let them alone; they are blind guides.[3] And if the blind lead the blind, both will fall into a pit."

Matthew 23:13

"But woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you shut the kingdom of heaven in people's faces. For you neither enter yourselves nor allow those who would enter to go in.[4]