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Isaiah 3:12

World English Bible

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.

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Isaiah 3:12 in other translations

As 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.

Isaiah 3:12 · American Standard Version

Isaiah 3:12 in context

  1. 10Tell the righteous “Good!”
    For they shall eat the fruit of their deeds.
  2. 11Woe to the wicked!
    Disaster is upon them;
    for the deeds of his hands will be paid back to him.
  3. 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.
  4. 13Yahweh stands up to contend,
    and stands to judge the peoples.
  5. 14Yahweh will enter into judgment with the elders of his people
    and their leaders:
    “It is you who have eaten up the vineyard.
    The plunder of the poor is in your houses.