Now when Athaliah the mother of Ahaziah saw that her son was dead, she arose and destroyed all the royal offspring.
Isaiah 3:12 - Tree of Life Version My people! Children are their oppressors and women rule over them. My people! Your guides mislead you 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 Athaliah the mother of Ahaziah saw that her son was dead, she arose and destroyed all the royal offspring.
They break up my path; they succeed in destroying me without anyone helping them.
An oppressive leader lacks judgment. One who hates unjust gain will prolong his life.
Oy to you, O land, when your king is a youth and your princes feast in the morning.
Adonai has mixed within her a spirit of dizziness. They make Egypt stagger in every work, as a drunkard staggers in his vomit.
I will set children as their rulers. Capricious ones will govern them.
Thus says your Lord, Adonai your God who defends His people: “Behold, I have taken from your hand the cup of reeling, the bowl of My wrath. You will never drink it again.
The prophets prophesy falsely, the kohanim rule by their own authority, and My people love it this way! But what will you do in the end?”
Thus said Adonai about the prophets who are misleading My people, those who bite with their teeth and cry “Shalom”—a word that He did not put in their mouth— yet they consecrate war against him:
See, your people within you are women. The gates of your land are wide open to your enemies— fire has devoured your gate-bars.
Leave them alone; they are blind guides of the blind. And if a blind man leads a blind man, both will fall into a pit.”
“But woe to you, Torah scholars and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you shut people out of the kingdom of heaven. For you do not enter yourselves, nor do you let those enter who are trying to go in.