Isaiah 9:15 - Tree of Life Version

¹⁵ The leaders of this people lead them astray. Those they mislead are swallowed up.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹⁵ The ancient and honourable, he is the head; and the prophet that teacheth lies, he is the tail.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹⁵ The elderly and honored man, he is the head; and the prophet who teaches lies, he is the tail.

American Standard Version (1901)

¹⁵ The elder and the honorable man, he is the head; and the prophet that teacheth lies, he is the tail.

Common English Bible

¹⁵ (Elders and celebrities are the head; prophets who teach lies are the tail.)

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹⁵ The long-lived and honorable, he is the head; and the prophet who teaches lies, he is the tail.

Isaiah 9:15 Tagairtí Cros

1 Kings 13:18

So he said to him: “I also am a prophet like you. An angel spoke to me with the word of Adonai saying, ‘Bring him back with you to your house that he may eat bread and drink water.’” (He lied to him.)

Job 22:8

Though you were a mighty man, owning land— an honored man living on it.

Isaiah 19:15

There will be no work for Egypt to do, for head or tail, palm branch or rush.

Isaiah 23:9

Adonai-Tzva’ot has planned it, to defile the pride of all glory, to shame all the honored of earth.

Isaiah 28:15

“Because you have said, ‘We cut a covenant with death, we made a pact with Sheol, so when the overflowing scourge passes through, it won’t come for us, for we have made lies our refuge, and hid ourselves in falsehood’—

Isaiah 28:17

But I will make justice the measuring line and righteousness the plumb line. Hail will sweep away the refuge of lies, and water will overflow the hiding place.

Isaiah 28:7

But these also reel from wine and stagger from strong drink —the kohen and the prophet reel from strong drink— are confused because of wine, they stagger because of strong drink, they are muddled in vision, they stumble in judgment.

Isaiah 29:10

For Adonai has poured out on you a spirit of deep sleep, and has shut your eyes—the prophets, and covered your heads—the seers.

Isaiah 3:12

My people! Children are their oppressors and women rule over them. My people! Your guides mislead you and destroy the way of your paths.

Isaiah 3:5

The people will oppress one another— each one by his fellow, each one by his neighbor. The child will be insolent to the aged, and dishonorable to the honorable.

Isaiah 43:27

Your first father sinned, and your mediators rebelled against Me.

Isaiah 5:13

“Therefore My people are in captivity for lack of knowledge. Their honorable men are famished and their multitudes parched with thirst.

Isaiah 59:3

For your hands are defiled with blood and your fingers with iniquity. Your lips have spoken lies, your tongue mutters wickedness.

Isaiah 59:4

No one sues justly, and none pleads a case honestly. They trust in confusion and speak lies. They conceive mischief, and bring forth iniquity.

Jeremiah 23:32

Behold, I am against those who prophesy lying dreams,” declares Adonai, “and tell them, and so lead My people astray with their lies and with their reckless boasts. Yet I never sent them or commanded them. Nor do they benefit this people at all.” It is a declaration of Adonai.

Jeremiah 23:9

As for the prophets: My heart within me is broken, all my bones shake. I am like a drunken man, like a man overcome by wine because of Adonai, because of His holy words.

Jeremiah 5:31

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?”

Lamentations 2:14

Your prophets have seen for you false and worthless visions. They did not expose your iniquity, so as to restore your captivity. Rather, they have seen for you false and worthless oracles.

Ezekiel 13:19

You have profaned Me among My people for handfuls of barley and crumbs of bread, to kill those who should not die and to save those who should not live, by lying to My people, who listen to lies.’”

Ezekiel 13:22

Because you have discouraged the hearts of the righteous with your lies, when I have not grieved him; and strengthened the hands of the wicked so he may not return from his wicked way and live,

Hosea 9:8

Ephraim is a watchman with my God, a prophet. A bird catcher’s trap is on all his paths. Hostility is in the House of his God.

Amos 2:4

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.

Micah 3:5

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:

Malachi 2:9

“So I also have made you despised and lowly to all the people, because you are not keeping My ways but show favoritism in Torah.”

Matthew 24:24

For false messiahs and false prophets will rise up and show great signs and wonders so as to lead astray, if possible, even the chosen.

Matthew 7:15

“Watch out for false prophets, who come to you in sheep’s clothing but inwardly are ravenous wolves.

1 John 4:1

Loved ones, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits to see if they are from God. For many false prophets have gone out into the world.

Revelation 19:20

Then the beast was captured, and along with him the false prophet who had performed the signs before him by which he deceived those who had received the mark of the beast, as well as those who had worshiped his image. These two were thrown alive into the lake of fire burning with brimstone.

1 Samuel 9:6

Then his servant said to him, “Behold now, there is a man of God in this town, and he is a man held in honor—everything he says is sure to come true. Now, let’s go there. Perhaps he’ll tell us the way we should go.”