Isa 3:12, 28:7, 56:10-12, Jer 5:31, 23:11-15, Lam 4:13-14, Eze 22:25-28 | ESV | STEP | My people — infants are their oppressors , and women rule over them. O my people , your guides mislead you and they have swallowed up the course of your paths .

Isaiah 3:12

12 My people— ^ainfants are their oppressors,
and women rule over them.
O my people, ^byour guides mislead you
and they have swallowed up ^{▼▼Or they have confused} the course of your paths.

Isaiah 28:7

7 ^dThese also reel with wine
and ^estagger with strong drink;
the priest and ^fthe prophet reel with strong drink,
they are swallowed by ^{▼▼Or confused by} wine,
they stagger with strong drink,
they reel in vision,
they stumble in giving judgment.

Isaiah 56:10-12

10 ^hHis watchmen are blind;
they are all without knowledge;
they are all silent ⁱdogs;
they cannot bark,
dreaming, lying down,
loving to slumber.
11 ^jThe dogs have a mighty appetite;
they never have enough.
But ^kthey are shepherds who have no understanding;
they have all turned to their own way,
^leach to his own gain, one and all.
12 ^m“Come,” they say, “let me get wine;
let us fill ourselves with strong drink;
ⁿand tomorrow will be like this day,
great beyond measure.”

Jeremiah 5:31

31 ^othe prophets prophesy falsely,
and the priests rule at their direction;
^pmy people love to have it so,
but what will you do when the end comes?

Jeremiah 23:11-15

11 ^q“Both prophet and priest are ungodly;
even ^rin my house I have found their evil,

declares the Lord.
12 ^sTherefore their way shall be to them
like slippery paths ^tin the darkness,
into which they shall be driven and fall,
for I will bring disaster upon them
^uin the year of their punishment,

declares the Lord.
13 In the prophets of ^vSamaria
^wI saw an unsavory thing:
^xthey prophesied by Baal
^yand led my people Israel astray.
14 But in the prophets of Jerusalem
I have seen a horrible thing:
^zthey commit adultery and walk in lies;
^aathey strengthen the hands of evildoers,
so that no one turns from his evil;
^aball of them have become like Sodom to me,
^acand its inhabitants like Gomorrah.”
15 Therefore thus says the Lord of hosts concerning the prophets:
^ad“Behold, I will feed them with bitter food
^aeand give them ^afpoisoned water to drink,
for from the prophets of Jerusalem
ungodliness has gone out into all the land.”

Lamentations 4:13-14

13 This was for ^agthe sins of her prophets
and ^ahthe iniquities of her priests,
who shed in the midst of her
the blood of the righteous.
14 ^aiThey wandered, blind, through the streets;
they were so defiled with blood
^ajthat no one was able to touch
their garments.

Ezekiel 22:25-28

25 ^akThe conspiracy of her prophets in her midst is ^allike a roaring lion ^amtearing the prey; they have devoured human lives; they have taken treasure and precious things; they have made many widows in her midst. 26 ^anHer priests ^aohave done violence to my law and ^aphave profaned my holy things. ^aqThey have made no distinction between the holy and the common, neither have they taught the difference between the unclean and the clean, and ^arthey have disregarded my Sabbaths, ^asso that I am profaned among them. 27 ^atHer princes in her midst are like wolves ^autearing the prey, ^avshedding blood, destroying lives to get dishonest gain. 28 And ^awher prophets have smeared whitewash for them, ^axseeing false visions and divining lies for them, saying, ‘Thus says the Lord God,’ when the Lord has not spoken.