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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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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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 9:16 Or swallowed up

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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Footnotes

  1. Jeremiah 14:14 Lit heart

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