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Guides who mislead. ORACLE OF JUDGMENT | The people do not return. Elders and false prophets are called head and tail; their guidance leads the people astray. The figures are unnamed illustrations of those roles.
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Isaiah 9:12-16

Guides who mislead

Light and the Coming King · Isaiah 9

Story guide: Guides who mislead. ORACLE OF JUDGMENT | The people do not return.

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12But the people did not return to him who struck them, nor did they seek Yahweh of Armies.

13So Yahweh cut off from Israel head and tail, palm branch and reed, in one day.

14The elder and the honored man is the head, and the prophet who teaches falsehood is the tail.

15And the guides of this people have become those who lead them astray, and those guided by them are swallowed up.

16Therefore the Lord does not rejoice over their young men, and he does not have compassion on their fatherless and their widows; for every one of them is godless and an evildoer, and every mouth speaks folly. For all this his anger has not turned away, and his hand is still stretched out.

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