A merchant, in whose hands are fraudulent balances, Loves to exploit.

“以法莲是商人，手里有诡诈的天平，爱行欺骗。

商人手持诡诈的天平，喜爱欺压。

商人手持诡诈的天平，喜爱欺压。

以法莲是个不诚实的商人，手里拿着骗人的秤，喜欢压榨人。

以色列是个商人，手里拿着诡诈的天平，喜爱欺压别人。

以法蓮是商人，手裏有詭詐的天平，愛行欺騙。

商人手持詭詐的天平，喜愛欺壓。

商人手持詭詐的天平，喜愛欺壓。

以法蓮是個不誠實的商人，手裡拿著騙人的秤，喜歡壓榨人。

以色列是個商人，手裡拿著詭詐的天平，喜愛欺壓別人。

嘿，作買賣的！他手裏有詭詐的天平，他愛敲竹槓騙人。

彼為迦南人、手執欺誑之衡、以勒索為悅、

以法蓮為商賈、權衡不公、虐取人財為悅、

以法蓮猶如商賈、手持不公之權衡、樂行欺詐、

The merchant uses dishonest scales and loves to defraud.

You are like a trader who uses dishonest scales. You love to cheat others.

A merchant, in whose hands are false balances, he loves to oppress.

But no, the people are like crafty merchants selling from dishonest scales— they love to cheat.

A merchant loves to extort with dishonest scales in his hands.

“ A cunning Canaanite! Deceitful scales are in his hand; He loves to oppress.

He is a trafficker, the balances of deceit are in his hand: he loveth to oppress.

A merchant loves to extort with dishonest scales in his hands.

[ He is] a merchant, the balances of deceit[ are] in his hand: he loveth to oppress.

The businessmen love to cheat; they use dishonest scales.

A merchant has dishonest scales in his hand. He loves to defraud.

A false balance is an abomination to the Lord, But a just weight is His delight.

Is there still a person in the wicked house, Along with treasures of wickedness, And a short measure that is cursed?Can I justify dishonest balances, And a bag of fraudulent weights?

saying,“ When will the new moon be over, So that we may sell grain; And the Sabbath, so that we may open the wheat market, To make the ephah smaller and the shekel bigger, And to cheat with dishonest scales,So as to buy the helpless for money, And the needy for a pair of sandals, And that we may sell the refuse of the wheat?”

‘ You shall do no wrong in judgment, in measurement of weight, or volume.You shall have accurate balances, accurate weights, an accurate ephah, and an accurate hin; I am the Lord your God, who brought you out from the land of Egypt.

Here I am; testify against me before the Lord and His anointed. Whose ox have I taken, or whose donkey have I taken, or whom have I exploited? Whom have I oppressed, or from whose hand have I taken a bribe to close my eyes with it? I will return it to you.”

The godly person has perished from the land, And there is no upright person among mankind. All of them lie in wait for bloodshed; Each of them hunts the other with a net.

and to those who were selling the doves He said,“ Take these things away from here; stop making My Father’s house a place of business!”

Therefore because you impose heavy rent on the poor And take a tribute of grain from them, Though you have built houses of cut stone, Yet you will not live in them; You have planted beautiful vineyards, yet you will not drink their wine.

And the people will be oppressed, Each one by another, and each one by his neighbor; The youth will assault the elder, And the contemptible person will assault the one honored.

A just balance and scales belong to the Lord; All the weights of the bag are His concern.

These who trample the head of the helpless to the dust of the earth Also divert the way of the humble; And a man and his father resort to the same girl So as to profane My holy name.

And I said,“ Hear now, you leaders of Jacob And rulers of the house of Israel: Is it not for you to know justice?You who hate good and love evil, Who tear off their skin from them And their flesh from their bones,Who eat the flesh of my people, Strip off their skin from them, Smash their bones, And chop them up as for the pot, And as meat in a cauldron!”

and say,‘ This is what the Lord God says to Jerusalem:“ Your origin and your birth are from the land of the Canaanite; your father was an Amorite and your mother a Hittite.

The people of the land have practiced extortion and committed robbery, and they have oppressed the poor and needy, and have oppressed the stranger without justice.

Behold, the pay of the laborers who mowed your fields, and which has been withheld by you, cries out against you; and the outcry of those who did the harvesting has reached the ears of the Lord of armies.

But those who want to get rich fall into temptation and a trap, and many foolish and harmful desires which plunge people into ruin and destruction.For the love of money is a root of all sorts of evil, and some by longing for it have wandered away from the faith and pierced themselves with many griefs.

Every cooking pot in Jerusalem and in Judah will be holy to the Lord of armies; and all who sacrifice will come and take of them and boil in them. And there will no longer be a Canaanite in the house of the Lord of armies on that day.

“ Then I will come near to you for judgment; and I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers, the adulterers, against those who swear falsely, those who oppress the wage earner in his wages or the widow or the orphan, and those who turn away the stranger from justice and do not fear Me,” says the Lord of armies.

Proclaim on the citadels in Ashdod and on the citadels in the land of Egypt and say,“ Assemble yourselves on the mountains of Samaria and see the great panic within her and the oppressions in her midst.

Hear this word, you cows of Bashan who are on the mountain of Samaria, Who exploit the poor, who oppress the needy, And say to their husbands,“ Bring now, that we may drink!”

Woe to those who devise wrongdoing, Who practice evil on their beds! When morning comes, they do it, Because it is in the power of their hands.