Isaiah 9:16
Therefore Adonoi shall have no joy in their bocherim, 1 neither shall have mercy on their yetomim and almanot; 1 for every one is a chanef (g-dless, hypocritical) and an evildoer, 1 and every mouth speaketh nevalah (folly). 1 For all this His anger is not turned away, 1 but His yad is upraised still. 1
Orthodox Jewish Bible
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
Cross References
1 Kings 8:55And he stood, and made on Kol Kehal Yisroel a brocha with a kol gadol (loud voice), saying,
Isaiah 3:12As for My people, children are their nogesim (taskmasters), 1 and nashim rule over them. 1 O My people, they which lead thee cause thee to go astray, 1 misleading and swallowing up the Derech Orkhot (way of paths) of thee. 1
Isaiah 10:4Without Me they shall bow down under the prisoners, 1 and they shall fall under the slain. 1 For all this His anger is not turned away, 1 but His yad is upraised still. 1
Jeremiah 18:21Therefore deliver up their banim to the ra'av (famine) 1 and pour out their dahm by the force of the cherev; 1 and let their nashim be bereaved as childless, and be almanot (widows); 1 and let their anashim be put to death; 1 let their bochurim be slain by the cherev in milchamah. 1
Matthew 23:16Oy to you, morei derech ivrim (blind guides), the, ones saying, Whoever swears by the Beis Hamikdash, it is a worthless shevuah (oath): but whoever swears by the gold of the Beis Hamikdash, he is obligated.
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 →