Isaiah 3:12 Parallel Translations

"Children will oppress my people. Women will rule them. My people, your guides mislead you, and you don't know which way to go."(GOD'S WORD®)

KJV:

As for my people, children are their oppressors, and women rule over them. O my people, they which lead thee cause thee to err, and destroy the way of thy paths.

ASV:

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.

BBE:

As for my people, their ruler is acting like a child, and those who have authority over them are women. O my people, your guides are the cause of your wandering, turning your footsteps out of the right way.

DBY:

As for my people, children are their oppressors, and women rule over them. My people! they that guide thee mislead thee, and destroy the way of thy paths.

ERV:

As for my people, children are their oppressors, and women rule over them. O my people, they which lead thee cause thee to err, and destroy the way of thy paths.

JPS:

As for My people, a babe is their master, and women rule over them. O My people, they that lead thee cause thee to err, and destroy the way of thy paths.

WBS:

As for my people, children are their oppressors, and women rule over them. O my people, they who lead thee cause thee to err, and destroy the way of thy paths.

WEB:

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.

YLT:

My people -- its exactors are sucklings, And women have ruled over it. My people -- thy eulogists are causing to err, And the way of thy paths swallowed up.

Isaiah 3:12 Cross References

XREF:

Isaiah 3:4 And I will make mere lads their princes, And capricious children will rule over them,

Isaiah 9:16 For those who guide this people are leading them astray; And those who are guided by them are brought to confusion.

Isaiah 28:14 Therefore, hear the word of the LORD, O scoffers, Who rule this people who are in Jerusalem,

Isaiah 28:15 Because you have said, "We have made a covenant with death, And with Sheol we have made a pact. The overwhelming scourge will not reach us when it passes by, For we have made falsehood our refuge and we have concealed ourselves with deception." (NASB ©1995)

Commentaries and Concordances

GSB:

3:12 [As for] my people, {k} children [are] their oppressors, and women rule over them. O my people, they who lead thee cause [thee] to err, and destroy the way of thy paths.
(k) Because the wicked people were more addicted to their princes than to the commandments of God, he shows that he would give them such princes, by whom they would have no help, but that they would be manifest tokens of his wrath, because they would be fools and effeminate.

WES:

3:12 Women - Weak and effeminate rulers. They - Thy rulers civil and ecclesiastical.

MHC:

3:10-15 The rule was certain; however there might be national prosperity or trouble, it would be well with the righteous and ill with the wicked. Blessed be God, there is abundant encouragement to the righteous to trust in him, and for sinners to repent and return to him. It was time for the Lord to show his might. He will call men to a strict account for all the wealth and power intrusted to and abused by them. If it is sinful to disregard the necessities of the poor, how odious and wicked a part do they act, who bring men into poverty, and then oppress them!

CONC:

Acting Astray Authority Babe Cause Causing Child Confuse Course Destroy Direction Err Eulogists Exactors Footsteps Guide Guides Lead Leaders Master Mislead O Oppress Oppressors Path Paths Rule Ruled Ruler Sucklings Swallowed Turn Turning Wandering Women

Acting Astray Authority Babe Cause Children Confuse Course Destroy Direction Err Eulogists Exactors Footsteps Guide Guides Lead Master Mislead Oppress Oppressors Path Paths Right Rule Ruled Ruler Sucklings Swallowed Turn Turning Wandering Way Women Youths

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