¹² My people -- its exactors `are' sucklings, And women have ruled over it. My people -- thy eulogists are causing to err, And the way of thy paths swallowed up.

⁴ And I have made youths their heads, And sucklings rule over them.

²³ `Speak unto Aaron, and unto his sons, saying, Thus ye do bless the sons of Israel, saying to them,

²⁴ `Jehovah bless thee and keep thee;

²⁵ `Jehovah cause His face to shine upon thee, and favour thee;

²⁶ `Jehovah lift up His countenance upon thee, and appoint for thee -- peace.

²⁷ `And they have put My name upon the sons of Israel, and I -- I do bless them.'

¹ And Athaliah `is' mother of Ahaziah, and she hath seen that her son `is' dead, and she riseth, and destroyeth all the seed of the kingdom;

¹⁵ Elder, and accepted of face, he `is' the head, Prophet, teacher of falsehood, he `is' the tail.

¹⁶ And the eulogists of this people are causing to err, And its eulogised ones are consumed.

¹⁴ Therefore, hear a word of Jehovah, ye men of scorning, Ruling this people that `is' in Jerusalem.

¹⁵ Because ye have said: `We have made a covenant with death, And with Sheol we have made a provision, An overflowing scourge, when it passeth over, Doth not meet us, Though we have made a lie our refuge, And in falsehood have been hidden.'

³¹ The prophets have prophesied falsely, And the priests bear rule by their means, And My people have loved `it' so, And what do they at its latter end?

¹³ Lo, thy people `are' women in thy midst, To thine enemies thoroughly opened Have been the gates of thy land, Consumed hath fire thy bars.

¹⁴ let them alone, guides they are -- blind of blind; and if blind may guide blind, both into a ditch shall fall.'

¹³ `Wo to you, Scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! because ye shut up the reign of the heavens before men, for ye do not go in, nor those going in do ye suffer to enter.