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Isaiah 9:16

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9:16The leaders of this nation were misleading people,

and the people being led were destroyed.43

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  1. 43 Heb “and the ones being led were swallowed up.” Instead of taking מְבֻלָּעִים (mébulla’im) from בָּלַע (bala’, “to swallow”), בלע proposes a rare homonymic root בלע (“confuse”) here.

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ESVEnglish Standard Version

for those who guide this people have been leading them astray,

and those who are guided by them are swallowed up.

NIVNew International Version (2011)

Those who guide this people mislead them,

and those who are guided are led astray.

CSBChristian Standard Bible

The leaders of the people mislead them,

and those they mislead are swallowed up.

NLTNew Living Translation

For the leaders of the people have misled them.

They have led them down the path of destruction.

LEBThe Lexham English Bible

And the leaders of this people were misleading them,

and those who were led were confused.

KJV 1900King James Version

For the leaders of this people cause them to err;

And they that are led of them are destroyed.