12As for my people, children are their oppressors, and women rule over them. My people, those who lead you cause you to err, and destroy the way of your paths.


In Context

9 The look of their faces testify against them. They parade their sin like Sodom. They don't hide it. Woe to their soul! For they have brought disaster upon themselves.

10 Tell the righteous |Good!| For they shall eat the fruit of their deeds.

11 Woe to the wicked! Disaster is upon them; for the deeds of his hands will be paid back to him.

12 As for my people, children are their oppressors, and women rule over them. My people, those who lead you cause you to err, and destroy the way of your paths.

13 Yahweh stands up to contend, and stands to judge the peoples.

14 Yahweh will enter into judgment with the elders of his people, and their leaders: |It is you who have eaten up the vineyard. The spoil of the poor is in your houses.

Isaiah 3:12 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

3:12[As for] my people, children [are] their oppressors, and women rule over them. O my people, they which lead thee cause [thee] to err, and destroy the way of thy paths.

The New International Version of the Holy Bible

3:12Youths oppress my people, women rule over them. O my people, your guides lead you astray; they turn you from the path.

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

3:12As for my people, their oppressors have stripped them, and women have ruled over them. O my people, they that call thee blessed, the same deceive thee, and destroy the way of thy steps.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

3:12As for my people, children are their oppressors, and women rule over them. O my people, they that lead thee cause thee to err, and destroy the way of thy paths.

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

3:12As for my people, children are their oppressors, and women rule over them. My people! they that guide thee mislead thee, and destroy the way of thy paths.

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

3:12As for my people, children are their oppressors, and women rule over them. O my people, they which lead thee cause thee to err, and destroy the way of thy paths.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

3:12As for my people, children are their oppressors, and women rule over them. O my people, they who lead thee cause thee to err, and destroy the way of thy paths.

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

3:12My people — its exactors are sucklings, And women have ruled over it. My people — thy eulogists are causing to err, And the way of thy paths swallowed up.

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

3:12As for my people, children are their oppressors, and women rule over them. O my people, they which lead you cause you to err, and destroy the way of your paths.