Now when `Atalyah the mother of Achazyah saw that her son was dead, she arose and destroyed all the seed royal.
Isaiah 3:12 - Hebrew Names version (HNV) As for my people, children are their oppressors, and women rule over them. My people, those who lead you cause you to err, and destroy the way of your paths. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 As for my people, children are their oppressors, and women rule over them. O my people, they which lead thee cause thee to err, and destroy the way of thy paths. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition As for My people, children are their oppressors, and women rule over them. O My people, your leaders cause you to err, and they confuse (destroy and swallow up) the course of your paths. American Standard Version (1901) As for my people, children are their oppressors, and women rule over them. O my people, they that lead thee cause thee to err, and destroy the way of thy paths. Common English Bible As for my people—oppressors strip them and swindlers rule them. My people—your leaders mislead you and confuse your paths. Catholic Public Domain Version As for my people, their oppressors have despoiled them, and women have ruled over them. My people, who call you blessed, the same are deceiving you and disrupting the path of your steps. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version As for my people, their oppressors have stripped them, and women have ruled over them. O my people, they that call thee blessed, the same deceive thee and destroy the way of thy steps. |
Now when `Atalyah the mother of Achazyah saw that her son was dead, she arose and destroyed all the seed royal.
They mar my path, They set forward my calamity, without anyone's help.
A tyrannical ruler lacks judgment. One who hates ill-gotten gain will have long days.
Woe to you, land, when your king is a child, and your princes eat in the morning!
The LORD has mixed a spirit of perverseness in the midst of her; and they have caused Egypt to go astray in all of its works, like a drunken man staggers in his vomit.
I will give boys to be their princes, and children shall rule over them.
Thus says your Lord GOD, and your God who pleads the cause of his people, Behold, I have taken out of your hand the cup of staggering, even the bowl of the cup of my wrath; you shall no more drink it again:
the prophets prophesy falsely, and the Kohanim bear rule by their means; and my people love to have it so: and what will you do in the end of it?
Thus says the LORD concerning the prophets who lead my people astray; for those who feed their teeth, they proclaim, *Shalom!* and whoever doesn't provide for their mouths, they prepare war against him:
Behold, your troops in your midst are women. The gates of your land are set wide open to your enemies. The fire has devoured your bars.
Leave them alone. They are blind guides of the blind. If the blind guide the blind, both will fall into a pit.*
*Woe to you, scribes and Perushim, hypocrites! For you devour widows' houses, and as a pretense you make long prayers. Therefore you will receive greater condemnation.