Isaiah 3:12
Parallel Strong's
Berean Study Bible
Youths oppress My people, and women rule over them. O My people, your guides mislead you; they turn you from your paths.

Young's Literal Translation
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.

King James Bible
[As for] my people, children [are] their oppressors, and women rule over them. O my people, they which lead thee cause [thee] to err, and destroy the way of thy paths.

Hebrew
Youths
מְעוֹלֵ֔ל (mə·‘ō·w·lêl)
Verb - Piel - Participle - masculine singular
Strong's 5768: A suckling

oppress
נֹגְשָׂ֣יו (nō·ḡə·śāw)
Verb - Qal - Participle - masculine plural construct | third person masculine singular
Strong's 5065: To drive, to tax, harass, tyrannize

My people,
עַמִּי֙ (‘am·mî)
Noun - masculine singular construct | first person common singular
Strong's 5971: A people, a tribe, troops, attendants, a flock

and women
וְנָשִׁ֖ים (wə·nā·šîm)
Conjunctive waw | Noun - feminine plural
Strong's 802: Woman, wife, female

rule
מָ֣שְׁלוּ (mā·šə·lū)
Verb - Qal - Perfect - third person common plural
Strong's 4910: To rule, have dominion, reign

over them.
ב֑וֹ (ḇōw)
Preposition | third person masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew

O My people,
עַמִּי֙ (‘am·mî)
Noun - masculine singular construct | first person common singular
Strong's 5971: A people, a tribe, troops, attendants, a flock

your guides
מְאַשְּׁרֶ֣יךָ (mə·’aš·šə·re·ḵā)
Verb - Piel - Participle - masculine plural construct | second person masculine singular
Strong's 833: To be straight, to go forward, be honest, proper

mislead you;
מַתְעִ֔ים (maṯ·‘îm)
Verb - Hifil - Participle - masculine plural
Strong's 8582: To vacillate, reel, stray

they turn you
בִּלֵּֽעוּ׃ (bil·lê·‘ū)
Verb - Piel - Perfect - third person common plural
Strong's 1104: To swallow down, swallow up, engulf

from your paths.
אֹֽרְחֹתֶ֖יךָ (’ō·rə·ḥō·ṯe·ḵā)
Noun - common plural construct | second person masculine singular
Strong's 734: A well-trodden road, a caravan

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           
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