Isaiah 3:12

The Scriptures 1998

“My people! Youths exert pressure on them, and women rule over them. O My people! Your leaders lead you astray, and swallow the way of your paths.”

Cross References

2 Kings 11:1

And Athalyah was the mother of Aḥ

Job 30:13

They have broken up my path, they gain by my ruin; no one restrains them.

Proverbs 28:16

A leader who lacks understanding is a great oppressor, But the hater of greed prolongs his days.

Ecclesiastes 10:16

Woe to you, O land, when your sovereign is a youth, and your rulers feast in the morning!

Isaiah 19:14

יהוה  has mixed a perverse spirit in her midst. And they have led Mitsrayim astray in all her work, as a drunkard strays in his vomit.

Isaiah 3:4

“And I shall make youths their heads, and children shall rule over them.

Isaiah 51:22

Thus said your Master, יהוה  and your Elohim, who pleads the cause of His people, “See, I shall take out of your hand the cup of reeling, the dregs of the cup of My wrath – never again shall you drink it.

Jeremiah 5:31

The prophets have prophesied falsely, and the priests rule by their own hand, and My people have loved it so. And what are you going to do at the end of it?

Micah 3:5

Thus said יהוה  concerning the prophets who lead my people astray, who are biting with their teeth and have called out, “Peace!” They even set apart a battle against him who does not give for their mouths.

Nahum 3:13

See, your people in your midst are women! The gates of your land shall be opened wide to your enemies. Fire shall consume your gate bars.

Matthew 15:14

“Leave them alone. They are blind leaders of the blind. And if the blind leads the blind, both shall fall into a ditch.”

Matthew 23:13

“But woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! Because you shut up the reign of the heavens before men, for you do not go in, nor do you allow those who are entering to go in.