Isaiah 9:15
By the head, is vnderstande the senatour and honourable man, and by the tayle, the prophete that preached lyes.
Bible (Bishops')
In The King James Version
The ancient and honourable, he is the head; and the prophet that teacheth lies, he is the tail.
In Context
14Therefore hath the Lorde rooted out of Israel both head and tayle, bough and reede in one day.
16For the guides of this people are deceauers, and those that be gouerned are vtterly lost.
Cross References
Isaiah 3:5And the people shall eche one of them violently oppresse another, and euery one agaynst his neyghbour: The boy shall presume agaynst the elder, and the person of lowe degree agaynst the honorable.
Isaiah 5:13Therfore commeth my folke into captiuitie, because they haue no vnderstandyng: Their glorie is famished with hunger, and their multitude dryed vp with thirst.
Isaiah 29:10For the Lorde hath couered you with a slumbring spirite, and hath closed your eyes: your prophetes also and rulers that shoulde see, them hath he couered.
Matthew Henry on Isaiah 9:9-21
Threatenings against Judah; Threatenings against Israel. ( b. c. 740.) 8 The Lord sent a word into Jacob, and it hath lighted upon Israel. 9 And all the people shall know, even Ephraim and the inhabitant of Samaria, that say in the pride and stoutness of heart, 10 The bricks are fallen down, but we will build with hewn stones: the sycomores are cut down, but we will change them into cedars. 11 Therefore the Lord shall set up the adversaries of Rezin against him, and join his enemies together; 12 The Syrians… Read the whole commentary →