14 So the Lord cuts off (A)head and tail from Israel,
Both palm branch and bulrush (B)in a single day.
15 The head is (C)the elder and honorable man,
And the prophet who teaches (D)falsehood is the tail.
16 (E)For those who guide this people are leading them astray;
And those who are guided by them are [a]brought to confusion.

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  1. Isaiah 9:16 Or swallowed up

24 Then the captain of the guard took (A)Seraiah the chief priest and (B)Zephaniah the second priest, with the three [a](C)officers of the temple. 25 He also took from the city one official who was overseer of the men of war, and seven [b]of the (D)king’s advisers who were found in the city, and the scribe of the commander of the army who mustered the people of the land, and sixty men of the people of the land who were found in the midst of the city. 26 Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard took them and (E)brought them to the king of Babylon at Riblah. 27 Then the king of Babylon (F)struck them down and put them to death at Riblah in the land of Hamath. So Judah was (G)led away into exile from its land.

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Footnotes

  1. Jeremiah 52:24 Lit keepers of the door
  2. Jeremiah 52:25 Lit men of those seeing the king’s face