Quotes About Leadership

“I will make mere lads their leaders, and children will rule over them.”

A man will seize his brother within his fatherís house: “You have a cloak—you be our leader! Take charge of this heap of rubble.”

On that day he will cry aloud: “I am not a healer. I have no food or clothing in my house. Do not make me leader of the people!”

Youths oppress My people, and women rule over them. O My people, your guides mislead you; they turn you from your paths.

The LORD brings this charge against the elders and leaders of His people: “You have devoured the vineyard; the plunder of the poor is in your houses.

When it was reported to the house of David that Aram was in league with Ephraim, the hearts of Ahaz and his people trembled like trees in the forest shaken by the wind.

Then the LORD said to Isaiah, “Go out with your son Shear-jashub to meet Ahaz at the end of the aqueduct that feeds the upper pool, on the road to the Laundererís Field,

The head of Ephraim is Samaria, and the head of Samaria is the son of Remaliah. If you do not stand firm in your faith, then you will not stand at all.í”

Again the LORD spoke to Ahaz, saying,

And I will appoint for Myself trustworthy witnesses—Uriah the priest and Zechariah son of Jeberekiah.”

They will roam the land, dejected and hungry. When they are famished, they will become enraged; and looking upward, they will curse their king and their God.

So the LORD will cut off Israelís head and tail, both palm branch and reed in a single day.

The head is the elder and honorable man, and the tail is the prophet who teaches lies.

For those who guide this people mislead them, and those they mislead are swallowed up.

“Are not all my commanders kings?” he says.

The wolf will live with the lamb, and the leopard will lie down with the goat; the calf and young lion and fatling will be together, and a little child will lead them.

The princes of Zoan are mere fools; Pharaohís wise counselors give senseless advice. How can you say to Pharaoh, “I am one of the wise, a son of eastern kings”?

The princes of Zoan have become fools; the princes of Memphis are deceived. The cornerstones of her tribes have led Egypt astray.

The LORD has poured into her a spirit of confusion. Egypt has been led astray in all she does, as a drunkard staggers through his own vomit.

Before the year that the chief commander, sent by Sargon king of Assyria, came to Ashdod and attacked and captured it,

They prepare a table, they lay out a carpet, they eat, they drink! Rise up, O princes, oil the shields!

This is what the Lord GOD of Hosts says: “Go, say to Shebna, the steward in charge of the palace:

I will remove you from office, and you will be ousted from your position.

On that day I will summon My servant, Eliakim son of Hilkiah.