Isa 9:16 | NETfull | STEP | The leaders of this nation were misleading people, and the people being led were destroyed.

Isaiah 9:16

16 The leaders of this nation were misleading people,
and the people being led were destroyed. ^{▼▼ Heb “and the ones being led were swallowed up.” Instead of taking מְבֻלָּעִים (m^ebulla’im) from בָּלַע (bala’, “to swallow”), HALOT 134 s.v. בלע proposes a rare homonymic root בלע (“confuse”) here.}