Isaiah 9:16
(9:15) And the guides of this people are those that guide to error; and those that are led of them are misled.
Leeser Tanakh
In The King James Version
For the leaders of this people cause them to err; and they that are led of them are destroyed.
In Context
15(9:14) The ancient and honorable is the head; and the prophet that teacheth lies is the tail.
Cross References
1 Kings 8:55And he stood up, and blessed all the congregation of Israel with a loud voice, saying,
Isaiah 3:12My people! their oppressors are children, and women rule over them. O my people! thy leaders cause thee to err, and the direction of thy paths they corrupt.
Isaiah 10:4Without me they shall kneel down under the prisoners, and under the slain shall they fall. For all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand still remaineth stretched out.
Jeremiah 18:21Therefore give up their children to the famine, and let their life ebb out by means of the sword; and let their wives be bereaved of their children, and widows; and let their men be slain by death; their young men smitten by the sword in the battle.
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 →