Isaiah 3:12 is not a Prohibition on Female Leadership

                                         Isaiah 3:12 is Not a Prohibition on Female Leadership

Isaiah 3:12 English Standard Version 12 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.

 

NOTE: Isaiah 3:12 is not a proof text to be used against Deborah the judge. If Deborah was a judgment to the people, so would the male judges. However, the text never says that at all. First, this is a descriptive text (not a prescriptive text), second, it is a variant (see below). You never make doctrines out of variants. Third, it can be interpreted in another way: Isaiah is using insulting, figurative language to describe the wicked rulers of Israel as childish/immature and feminine/weak. Compare to Isaiah 3:4 for figurative language.

 




Variants

Isaiah 3:12 Good News Translation 12 Moneylenders oppress my people, and their creditors cheat them. My people, your leaders are misleading you, so that you do not know which way to turn.

 

Isaiah 3:12 New English Translation 12 Oppressors treat my people cruelly; creditors rule over them. My people, your leaders mislead you; they give you confusing directions.

 

Isaiah 3:12 Brenton Septuagint Translation O my people, your exactors strip you, and extortioners rule over you: O my people, they that pronounce you blesses lead you astray, and pervert the path of your feet.

 

 

 

 

Similar imagery like Isaiah 3:12 to insult the male rulers as feminine/weak

Isaiah 3:4 4 And I will make boys their princes, and infants shall rule over them.


Isaiah 13:8 8 They will be dismayed: pangs and agony will seize them; they will be in anguish LIKE A WOMAN in labor. They will look aghast at one another; their faces will be aflame.



Isaiah 19:16 In that day the Egyptians will be LIKE WOMEN. They will tremble with fear beneath the uplifted hand of the LORD of Hosts, when He brandishes it against them.

 

Jeremiah 50:37 A sword is against her horses and chariots and against all the foreigners in her midst, and they will become LIKE WOMEN. A sword is against her treasuries, and they will be plundered.

 

Jeremiah 51:30 The warriors of Babylon have stopped fighting; they sit in their strongholds. Their strength is exhausted; they have become LIKE WOMEN. Babylon’s homes have been set ablaze, the bars of her gates are broken.

 

Nahum 3:13  Behold, your troops ARE WOMEN in your midst. The gates of your land are wide open to your enemies; fire has devoured your bars.

 

Ecclesiastes 10:16 Woe to you, O land whose king is A YOUTH, and whose princes feast in the morning.

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