And when Athaliah the mother of Ahaziah saw that her son was dead, she arose and destroyed all the royal heirs.
Isaiah 3:12 - King James 2000 As for my people, children are their oppressors, and women rule over them. O my people, they 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. |
And when Athaliah the mother of Ahaziah saw that her son was dead, she arose and destroyed all the royal heirs.
The prince that lacks understanding is also a great oppressor: but he that hates covetousness shall prolong his days.
Woe to you, O land, when your king is a child, and your princes feast in the morning!
The LORD has mixed a perverse spirit in its midst: and they have caused Egypt to err in her every work, as a drunken man staggers in his vomit.
And I will give children to be their princes, and babes shall rule over them.
Thus says your Lord the LORD, and your God that pleads the cause of his people, Behold, I have taken out of your hand the cup of trembling, even the dregs of the cup of my fury; you shall no more drink it again:
The prophets prophesy falsely, and the priests bear rule by their own power; and my people love to have it so: and what will you do in the end?
Thus says the LORD: Concerning the prophets who make my people stray, who bite with their teeth, and cry, Peace; and he that puts nothing into their mouths, they even prepare war against him.
Behold, your troops in the midst of you are women: the gates of your land shall be set wide open unto your enemies: the fire shall devour the bars of your gates.
Let them alone: they are blind leaders of the blind. And if the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch.
But woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for you shut up the kingdom of heaven against men: for you neither go in yourselves, neither allow you them that are entering to go in.