16Those who guide this people mislead them, and those who are guided are led astray.


In Context

13 But the people have not returned to him who struck them, nor have they sought the Lord Almighty.

14 So the Lord will cut off from Israel both head and tail, both palm branch and reed in a single day;

15 the elders and prominent men are the head, the prophets who teach lies are the tail.

16 Those who guide this people mislead them, and those who are guided are led astray.

17 Therefore the Lord will take no pleasure in the young men, nor will he pity the fatherless and widows, for everyone is ungodly and wicked, every mouth speaks vileness. Yet for all this, his anger is not turned away, his hand is still upraised.

18 Surely wickedness burns like a fire; it consumes briers and thorns, it sets the forest thickets ablaze, so that it rolls upward in a column of smoke.

Isaiah 9:16 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

9:16For the leaders of this people cause [them] to err; and [they that are] led of them [are] destroyed.

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

9:16And they that call this people blessed, shall cause them to err: and they that are called blessed, shall be thrown down headlong.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

9:16For they that lead this people cause them to err; and they that are led of them are destroyed.

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

9:16For the guides of this people mislead them; and they that are guided by them are swallowed up.

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

9:16For they that lead this people cause them to err; and they that are led of them are destroyed.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

9:16For the leaders of this people cause them to err; and they that are led by them are destroyed.

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

9:16For those who lead this people lead them astray; and those who are led by them are destroyed.

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

9:16And the eulogists of this people are causing to err, And its eulogised ones are consumed.

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

9:16For the leaders of this people cause them to err; and they that are led of them are destroyed.