12 My people! Their oppressors (A)treat them violently,
And women rule over them.
My people! (B)Those who guide you lead you astray
And confuse the direction of your paths.

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12 Youths(A) oppress my people,
    women rule over them.
My people, your guides lead you astray;(B)
    they turn you from the path.

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15 The head is (A)the elder and esteemed man,
And the prophet who teaches (B)falsehood is the tail.
16 (C)For those who guide this people are leading them astray;
And those who are guided by them are [a]confused.

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  1. Isaiah 9:16 Or swallowed up

15 the elders(A) and dignitaries(B) are the head,
    the prophets(C) who teach lies(D) are the tail.
16 Those who guide(E) this people mislead them,
    and those who are guided are led astray.(F)

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14 Then the Lord said to me, “The (A)prophets are prophesying falsehood in My name. (B)I have neither sent them nor commanded them, nor spoken to them; they are prophesying to you a (C)false vision, divination, futility, and the deception of their own [a]minds. 15 Therefore this is what the Lord says concerning the prophets who are prophesying in My name, although it was not I who sent them—yet they keep saying: ‘There will be no sword or famine in this land’—(D)by sword and famine those prophets shall meet their end!

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  1. Jeremiah 14:14 Lit heart

14 Then the Lord said to me, “The prophets are prophesying lies(A) in my name. I have not sent(B) them or appointed them or spoken to them. They are prophesying to you false visions,(C) divinations,(D) idolatries[a] and the delusions of their own minds. 15 Therefore this is what the Lord says about the prophets who are prophesying in my name: I did not send them, yet they are saying, ‘No sword or famine will touch this land.’ Those same prophets will perish(E) by sword and famine.(F)

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  1. Jeremiah 14:14 Or visions, worthless divinations