Isaiah 3:12 Cross References - CLV

¹² My people--its exactors are clean-gleaners, and the exactors rule among My people. Those making you happy lead you astray, and the way of your paths they confuse."

²³ Speak to Aaron and to his sons, saying, Thus shall you bless the sons of Israel, saying to them, ²⁴ May Yahweh bless you and keep you; ²⁵ may Yahweh light up His face toward you and be gracious to you; ²⁶ may Yahweh lift His face to you and appoint peace for you. ²⁷ Thus they will place My name over the sons of Israel and I Myself shall bless them.

¹ And Athaliah [is] mother of Ahaziah, and she has seen that her son [is] dead, and she rises, and destroys all the seed of the kingdom;"

⁴ And I give them youths for their chiefs, and the unweaned will rule among them."

¹⁵ The elder and reputable, he is the head, and a prophet directing with falsehood, he is the tail." ¹⁶ And they are coming to make this people happy, leading them astray, and those being made happy will be swallowed up."

¹⁴ Wherefore, hear the word of Yahweh, mocking mortals, proverb quoters of this people who are in Jerusalem." ¹⁵ For you say, "We have contracted a covenant with death, and with the unseen we made a public treaty. The scourge overflowing that shall pass will not come on us, for we constitute a lie our refuge, and in falsehood are we concealed."

³¹ The prophets have prophesied falsely, And the priests bear rule by their means, And My people have loved [it] so, And what do they at its latter end?

¹³ Behold! your people are women within you; verily the gates of your land are opened to your enemies. Fire devours your bars.

¹⁴ Leave them! Blind guides are they of the blind! Now if the blind should be guiding the blind, both shall be falling into a pit."

¹³ Now woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for you are locking the kingdom of the heavens in front of men. For you are not entering, neither are you letting those entering to enter."