Then the Levitical kohanim arose and blessed the people, and Adonai heard their voice, for their prayer reached heaven, His holy dwelling place.
Isaiah 9:16 - Tree of Life Version Therefore Adonai will have no joy in their young men, nor will He have compassion on their orphans and widows, for everyone is ungodly and an evildoer, and every mouth speaks foolishness. For all this His anger is not turned away, yet His hand is still outstretched. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 For the leaders of this people cause them to err; and they that are led of them are destroyed. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition For they who lead this people cause them to err, and they who are led [astray] by them are swallowed up (destroyed). American Standard Version (1901) For they that lead this people cause them to err; and they that are led of them are destroyed. Common English Bible But this people’s leaders were misleading, and those being led were confused. Catholic Public Domain Version And those who deceitfully praise this people, and those who are praised, will be thrown down violently. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version And they that call this people blessed shall cause them to err: and they that are called blessed shall be thrown down headlong. |
Then the Levitical kohanim arose and blessed the people, and Adonai heard their voice, for their prayer reached heaven, His holy dwelling place.
One can only crouch among the captives or collapse among the slain. For all this His anger is not turned away, yet His hand is still outstretched.
Adonai has mixed within her a spirit of dizziness. They make Egypt stagger in every work, as a drunkard staggers in his vomit.
My people! Children are their oppressors and women rule over them. My people! Your guides mislead you and destroy the way of your paths.
Therefore Adonai’s anger is kindled against His people. When He has stretched out His hand against them and struck them, the hills trembled, and their carcasses were like refuse in the streets. For all this His anger is not turned away, yet His hand is still outstretched.
Therefore give their children to famine and pour out the power of the sword. Let their wives be bereaved of children, and widows, and let their men be slain to death, and their young men struck down by the sword in battle.
Moreover, I have seen unseemliness in the prophets of Samaria: they prophesied by Baal, and led My people Israel astray.
Everyone deceives his neighbor and does not speak the truth. They taught their tongue to speak lies. They wear themselves out doing wrong.
Thus says Adonai: “For three crimes of Judah even for four, I will not relent. For they despise Adonai’s Torah and have not kept His statutes. Their lies have misled them— those their fathers walked after.
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:
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.”