Isaiah 3:12
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New International Version (©1984)
Youths oppress my people, women rule over them. O my people, your guides lead you astray; they turn you from the path.

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
O My people! Their oppressors are children, And women rule over them. O My people! Those who guide you lead you astray And confuse the direction of your paths.

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
"Children will oppress my people. Women will rule them. My people, your guides mislead you, and you don't know which way to go."

King James Bible
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.

American King James Version
As for my people, children are their oppressors, and women rule over them. O my people, they which lead you cause you to err, and destroy the way of your paths.

American Standard Version
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.

Bible in Basic English
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.

Douay-Rheims Bible
As for my people, their oppressors have stripped them, and women have ruled over them. O my people, they that call thee blessed, the same deceive thee, and destroy the way of thy steps.

Darby Bible Translation
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.

English Revised Version
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.

Webster's Bible Translation
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.

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.

Young's Literal Translation
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.

Geneva Study Bible

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.

Wesley's Notes

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

King James Translators' Notes

lead...: or, call thee blessed

destroy: Heb. swallow up

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary

12. (See Isa 3:4).

oppressors-literally, "exactors," that is, exacting princes (Isa 60:17). They who ought to be protectors are exactors; as unqualified for rule as "children," as effeminate as "women." Perhaps it is also implied that they were under the influence of their harem, the women of their court.

lead-Hebrew, "call thee blessed"; namely, the false prophets, who flatter the people with promises of safety in sin; as the political "rulers" are meant in the first clause.

way of thy paths-(Jer 6:16). The right way set forth in the law. "Destroy"-Hebrew, "Swallow up," that is, cause so utterly to disappear that not a vestige of it is left.

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary

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!


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)

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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.

children Isa 3:4 2Ki 11:1 Na 3:13

lead thee. or, which call thee blessed Isa 9:15 Nu 6:23-27 Jer 5:31 Mt 15:14

destroy. Heb. swallow p Mt 23:14

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