They utter mere words; with empty oaths they make covenants; so judgment springs up like poisonous weeds in the furrows of the field.

他们为立约说谎言，起假誓；因此，灾罚如苦菜滋生在田间的犁沟中。

他们讲空话，以假誓立约；因此，惩罚如苦菜滋生在田间的犁沟中。

他们讲空话，以假誓立约；因此，惩罚如苦菜滋生在田间的犁沟中。

他们说虚话，起假誓，立空盟，因此不法之事滋长，犹如田间犁沟中蔓延的毒草。

他们说很多话，起假誓，又立盟约；所以审判像毒草一般在田间的犁沟中生长起来。

他們為立約說謊言，起假誓；因此，災罰如苦菜滋生在田間的犂溝中。

他們講空話，以假誓立約；因此，懲罰如苦菜滋生在田間的犁溝中。

他們講空話，以假誓立約；因此，懲罰如苦菜滋生在田間的犁溝中。

他們說虛話，起假誓，立空盟，因此不法之事滋長，猶如田間犁溝中蔓延的毒草。

他們說很多話，起假誓，又立盟約；所以審判像毒草一般在田間的犁溝中生長起來。

嘿，講空話，起假誓，立盟約！莫怪司法如毒草、發生於田間的犂溝中呀！

彼出虛言、假誓立約、故災罰滋生、若毒草之於隴畝、

先知曰、斯民立約誑辭是尚、故災害必降、譬諸茵蔯、生於田疇、

斯民出言惟虛、立盟妄誓、故災罰滋生、如茵蔯生於田隴、

They make many promises, take false oaths and make agreements; therefore lawsuits spring up like poisonous weeds in a plowed field.

They make a lot of promises. They make agreements among themselves. They make promises they don’t mean to keep. So court cases spring up like poisonous weeds in a plowed field.

They spout empty words and make covenants they don’t intend to keep. So injustice springs up among them like poisonous weeds in a farmer’s field.

They speak mere words, taking false oaths while making covenants. So lawsuits break out like poisonous weeds in the furrows of a field.

They speak mere words, With worthless oaths they make covenants; And judgment sprouts like poisonous weeds in the furrows of the field.

They have spoken words, Swearing falsely in making a covenant. Thus judgment springs up like hemlock in the furrows of the field.

They speak vain words, swearing falsely in making covenants: therefore judgment springeth up as hemlock in the furrows of the field.

They speak mere words, taking false oaths while making covenants. So lawsuits break out like poisonous weeds in the furrows of a field.

They have spoken words, swearing falsely in making a covenant: thus judgment springeth up as hemlock in the furrows of the field.

They utter empty words, taking false oaths and making empty agreements. Therefore legal disputes sprout up like poisonous weeds in the furrows of a plowed field.

They make promises, swearing falsely in making covenants. Therefore judgment springs up like poisonous weeds in the furrows of the field.

O you who turn justice to wormwood and cast down righteousness to the earth!

there is swearing, lying, murder, stealing, and committing adultery; they break all bounds, and bloodshed follows bloodshed.

Do horses run on rocks? Does one plow there with oxen? But you have turned justice into poison and the fruit of righteousness into wormwood—

And he took one of the royal offspring and made a covenant with him, putting him under oath( the chief men of the land he had taken away),that the kingdom might be humble and not lift itself up, and keep his covenant that it might stand.But he rebelled against him by sending his ambassadors to Egypt, that they might give him horses and a large army. Will he thrive? Can one escape who does such things? Can he break the covenant and yet escape?“ As I live, declares the Lord God, surely in the place where the king dwells who made him king, whose oath he despised, and whose covenant with him he broke, in Babylon he shall die.Pharaoh with his mighty army and great company will not help him in war, when mounds are cast up and siege walls built to cut off many lives.He despised the oath in breaking the covenant, and behold, he gave his hand and did all these things; he shall not escape.Therefore thus says the Lord God: As I live, surely it is my oath that he despised, and my covenant that he broke. I will return it upon his head.

Against him came up Shalmaneser king of Assyria. And Hoshea became his vassal and paid him tribute.But the king of Assyria found treachery in Hoshea, for he had sent messengers to So, king of Egypt, and offered no tribute to the king of Assyria, as he had done year by year. Therefore the king of Assyria shut him up and bound him in prison.

But like Adam they transgressed the covenant; there they dealt faithlessly with me.

heartless, unappeasable, slanderous, without self-control, brutal, not loving good,

foolish, faithless, heartless, ruthless.

Beware lest there be among you a man or woman or clan or tribe whose heart is turning away today from the Lord our God to go and serve the gods of those nations. Beware lest there be among you a root bearing poisonous and bitter fruit,

See to it that no one fails to obtain the grace of God; that no“ root of bitterness” springs up and causes trouble, and by it many become defiled;

transgressing, and denying the Lord, and turning back from following our God, speaking oppression and revolt, conceiving and uttering from the heart lying words.Justice is turned back, and righteousness stands far away; for truth has stumbled in the public squares, and uprightness cannot enter.Truth is lacking, and he who departs from evil makes himself a prey. The Lord saw it, and it displeased him that there was no justice.

The third angel blew his trumpet, and a great star fell from heaven, blazing like a torch, and it fell on a third of the rivers and on the springs of water.The name of the star is Wormwood. A third of the waters became wormwood, and many people died from the water, because it had been made bitter.

For the vineyard of the Lord of hosts is the house of Israel, and the men of Judah are his pleasant planting; and he looked for justice, but behold, bloodshed; for righteousness, but behold, an outcry!

For I see that you are in the gall of bitterness and in the bond of iniquity.”