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Isaiah 3:12 - Meaning and Application

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Translation: World English Bible — Catholic Edition

" 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. "

Isaiah 3:12

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10 Tell the righteous that it will be well with them, for they will eat the fruit of their deeds.

11 Woe to the wicked! Disaster is upon them, for the deeds of their hands will be paid back to them.

12 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.

13 The LORD stands up to contend, and stands to judge the peoples.

14 The LORD will enter into judgment with the elders of his people and their leaders: “It is you who have eaten up the vineyard. The plunder of the poor is in your houses.

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Isaiah 3:1

"For, behold, the Lord, GOD of Armies, takes away from Jerusalem and from Judah supply and support, the whole supply of bread, and the whole supply of water;"

Isaiah 3:2

"the mighty man, the man of war, the judge, the prophet, the diviner, the elder,"

Isaiah 3:3

"the captain of fifty, the honorable man, the counselor, the skilled craftsman, and the clever enchanter."

Isaiah 3:4

"I will give boys to be their princes, and children shall rule over them."

Isaiah 3:5

"The people will be oppressed, everyone by another, and everyone by his neighbor. The child will behave himself proudly against the old man, and the wicked against the honorable."

Isaiah 3:6

"Indeed a man shall take hold of his brother in the house of his father, saying, “You have clothing, you be our ruler, and let this ruin be under your hand.”"

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