Isaiah 9:16
Modern Translations
New International Version
Those who guide this people mislead them, and those who are guided are led astray.

New Living Translation
For the leaders of the people have misled them. They have led them down the path of destruction.

English Standard Version
for those who guide this people have been leading them astray, and those who are guided by them are swallowed up.

Berean Study Bible
For those who guide this people mislead them, and those they mislead are swallowed up.

New American Standard Bible
For those who guide this people are leading them astray; And those who are guided by them are confused.

NASB 1995
For those who guide this people are leading them astray; And those who are guided by them are brought to confusion.

NASB 1977
For those who guide this people are leading them astray; And those who are guided by them are brought to confusion.

Amplified Bible
For those who lead this people are causing them to go astray; And those who are led [astray] by them are swallowed up.

Christian Standard Bible
The leaders of the people mislead them, and those they mislead are swallowed up.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
The leaders of the people mislead them, and those they mislead are swallowed up.

Contemporary English Version
They had led the nation down the wrong path, and the people were confused.

Good News Translation
Those who lead these people have misled them and totally confused them.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
Those who guide these people lead them astray. Those who are guided by them will be destroyed.

International Standard Version
For those who guide this people have been leading them astray, and those who are guided by them are swallowed up.

NET Bible
The leaders of this nation were misleading people, and the people being led were destroyed.
Classic Translations
King James Bible
For the leaders of this people cause them to err; and they that are led of them are destroyed.

New King James Version
For the leaders of this people cause them to err, And those who are led by them are destroyed.

King James 2000 Bible
For the leaders of this people cause them to err; and they that are led by them are destroyed.

New Heart English Bible
Therefore the Lord will not rejoice over their young men, neither will he have compassion on their fatherless and widows; for everyone is profane and an evildoer, and every mouth speaks folly. For all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still.

World English Bible
For those who lead this people lead them astray; and those who are led by them are destroyed.

American King James Version
For the leaders of this people cause them to err; and they that are led of them are destroyed.

American Standard Version
For they that lead this people cause them to err; and they that are led of them are destroyed.

A Faithful Version
For the leaders of this people led them astray; and those who are led by them are swallowed up.

Darby Bible Translation
For the guides of this people mislead [them]; and they that are guided by them are swallowed up.

English Revised Version
For they that lead this people cause them to err; and they that are led of them are destroyed.

Webster's Bible Translation
For the leaders of this people cause them to err; and they that are led by them are destroyed.

Early Modern
Geneva Bible of 1587
For the leaders of the people cause them to erre: and they that are led by them are deuoured.

Bishops' Bible of 1568
(9:15) For the guides of this people are deceauers, and those that be gouerned are vtterly lost.

Coverdale Bible of 1535
For all they which enfourme the people that they be in a right case, soch be disceauers. Soch as men thynke also to be perfecte amonge these, are but cast awaye.
Literal Translations
Literal Standard Version
And the eulogists of this people are causing to err, "" And its eulogized ones are consumed.

Young's Literal Translation
And the eulogists of this people are causing to err, And its eulogised ones are consumed.

Smith's Literal Translation
And there will be those leading this people causing them to wander; and those being led being swallowed up.

Catholic Translations
Douay-Rheims Bible
And they that call this people blessed, shall cause them to err: and they that are called blessed, shall be thrown down headlong.

Catholic Public Domain Version
And those who deceitfully praise this people, and those who are praised, will be thrown down violently.

Translations from Aramaic
Peshitta Holy Bible Translated
And they shall be the benefactors of this people, deceiving and sinking it

Lamsa Bible
For the leaders of this people shall cause them to err and cause them to sink low.

OT Translations
JPS Tanakh 1917
For they that lead this people cause them to err; And they that are led of them are destroyed.

Brenton Septuagint Translation
And they that pronounce this people blessed shall mislead them; and they mislead them that they may devour them.
















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