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Isaiah 9:16

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For the leaders of this people cause them to err; and they that are led of them are destroyed.

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  1. Isaiah 9:14

    Therefore the Lord will cut off from Israel head and tail, branch and rush, in one day.

  2. Isaiah 9:15

    The ancient and honourable, he is the head; and the prophet that teacheth lies, he is the tail.

  3. Isaiah 9:17

    Therefore the Lord shall have no joy in their young men, neither shall have mercy on their fatherless and widows: for every one is an hypocrite and an evildoer, and every mouth speaketh folly. For all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still.

  4. Isaiah 9:18

    For wickedness burneth as the fire: it shall devour the briers and thorns, and shall kindle in the thickets of the forest, and they shall mount up like the lifting up of smoke.

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Scripture: King James Version (KJV), English, 66-book canon. The quotation retains the wording and numbering of our source corpus.