No, you practice injustice in your hearts; with your hands you weigh out violence in the land.

不然！你们是心中作恶；你们在地上秤出你们手所行的强暴。

不然！你们心中作恶，量出你们在地上手中的残暴。

不然！你们心中作恶，量出你们在地上手中的残暴。

不，你们心中图谋不义，你们在地上行凶作恶。

不是的，你们心中策划奸恶；你们的手在地上施行强暴（本句原文作“你们在地上称出你们手中的强暴”）。

不，你们在心里行不义，你们在地上手施残暴。

不然！你們是心中作惡；你們在地上秤出你們手所行的強暴。

不然！你們心中作惡，量出你們在地上手中的殘暴。

不然！你們心中作惡，量出你們在地上手中的殘暴。

不，你們心中圖謀不義，你們在地上行兇作惡。

不是的，你們心中策劃奸惡；你們的手在地上施行強暴（本句原文作“你們在地上稱出你們手中的強暴”）。

不，你們是心中行着不義，而在地上以手秤出強暴的。

不，你們在心裡行不義，你們在地上手施殘暴。

非也、爾心造惡、且於地上、衡施強暴兮、

爾之中心、惟懷惡念、爾居斯土、所行強梁兮、

爾乃心懷奸惡、在此國中、以手施行強暴、

嗟時俗之詭詐兮。背繩墨而改錯。

No, in your heart you devise injustice, and your hands mete out violence on the earth.

No, in your hearts you plan to be unfair. With your hands you do terrible things on the earth.

No, in your hearts you devise wrongs; your hands deal out violence on earth.

No! You plot injustice in your hearts. You spread violence throughout the land.

No, you practice injustice in your hearts; with your hands you weigh out violence in the land.

No, in heart you practice injustice; On earth you clear a way for the violence of your hands.

No, in heart you work wickedness; You weigh out the violence of your hands in the earth.

Nay, in heart ye work wickedness; Ye weigh out the violence of your hands in the earth.

Yea, in heart ye work wickedness; ye weigh the violence of your hands in the earth.

No! You plan how to do what is unjust; you deal out violence in the earth.

No, in your heart you plot injustice. You measure out the violence of your hands in the earth.

Can a corrupt throne— one that creates trouble by law— become Your ally?

Woe to those enacting crooked statutes and writing oppressive laws

The path of the righteous is level; You clear a straight path for the righteous.

He took up the case of the poor and needy, then it went well. Is this not what it means to know Me? This is the Lord’s declaration.But you have eyes and a heart for nothing except your own dishonest profit, shedding innocent blood and committing extortion and oppression.

So now we consider the arrogant to be fortunate. Not only do those who commit wickedness prosper, they even test God and escape.”

People who live in you accept bribes in order to shed blood. You take interest and profit on a loan and brutally extort your neighbors. You have forgotten Me.” This is the declaration of the Lord God.

No one makes claims justly; no one pleads honestly. They trust in empty and worthless words; they conceive trouble and give birth to iniquity.They hatch viper’s eggs and weave spider’s webs. Whoever eats their eggs will die; crack one open, and a viper is hatched.Their webs cannot become clothing, and they cannot cover themselves with their works. Their works are sinful works, and violent acts are in their hands.

Then I said,“ Now listen, leaders of Jacob, you rulers of the house of Israel. Aren’t you supposed to know what is just?You hate good and love evil. You tear off people’s skin and strip their flesh from their bones.You eat the flesh of my people after you strip their skin from them and break their bones. You chop them up like flesh for the cooking pot, like meat in a cauldron.”

Though they intend to harm you and devise a wicked plan, they will not prevail.

I also observed under the sun: there is wickedness at the place of judgment and there is wickedness at the place of righteousness.

So the chief priests and the Pharisees convened the Sanhedrin and said,“ What are we going to do since this man does many signs?If we let Him continue in this way, everyone will believe in Him! Then the Romans will come and remove both our place and our nation.”One of them, Caiaphas, who was high priest that year, said to them,“ You know nothing at all!You’re not considering that it is to your advantage that one man should die for the people rather than the whole nation perish.”He did not say this on his own, but being high priest that year he prophesied that Jesus was going to die for the nation,and not for the nation only, but also to unite the scattered children of God.So from that day on they plotted to kill Him.

“ Her officials within her are like wolves tearing their prey, shedding blood, and destroying lives in order to make profit dishonestly.

Listen to this, leaders of the house of Jacob, you rulers of the house of Israel, who abhor justice and pervert everything that is right,who build Zion with bloodshed and Jerusalem with injustice.Her leaders issue rulings for a bribe, her priests teach for payment, and her prophets practice divination for money. Yet they lean on the Lord, saying,“ Isn’t the Lord among us? No disaster will overtake us.”Therefore, because of you, Zion will be plowed like a field, Jerusalem will become ruins, and the hill of the temple mount will be a thicket.