For I know your crimes are many and your sins innumerable. They oppress the righteous, take a bribe, and deprive the poor of justice at the city gates.

我知道你们的罪过何等多，你们的罪恶何等大。你们苦待义人，收受贿赂，在城门口屈枉穷乏人。

我知道你们的罪过何其多，你们的罪恶何其大；你们迫害义人，收受贿赂，在城门口屈枉贫穷人。

我知道你们的罪过何其多，你们的罪恶何其大；你们迫害义人，收受贿赂，在城门口屈枉贫穷人。

我知道你们的过犯众多、罪恶无数。你们迫害义人，收受贿赂，在城门口冤枉穷人。

因为我知道你们的过犯众多，罪大恶极；你们迫害义人，收受贿赂，在城门口屈枉穷乏人；

我知道你們的罪過何等多，你們的罪惡何等大。你們苦待義人，收受賄賂，在城門口屈枉窮乏人。

我知道你們的罪過何其多，你們的罪惡何其大；你們迫害義人，收受賄賂，在城門口屈枉貧窮人。

我知道你們的罪過何其多，你們的罪惡何其大；你們迫害義人，收受賄賂，在城門口屈枉貧窮人。

我知道你們的過犯眾多、罪惡無數。你們迫害義人，收受賄賂，在城門口冤枉窮人。

因為我知道你們的過犯眾多，罪大惡極；你們迫害義人，收受賄賂，在城門口屈枉窮乏人；

因為我知道你們的過犯多麼多，你們的罪多麼大：你們這些苦待義人，收受贖金、在城門口屈枉窮人的。

蓋我知爾罪惡繁多、愆尤重大、虐義人而受賄賂、在邑門而枉窮民、

我知爾罪戾繁多、愆尤滋大、困逼義人、而受賄賂、在彼公庭、枉法害貧、

我知爾愆尤最多、罪惡甚重、爾困逼困逼或作虐待義人、爾受賄賂、在公庭公庭原文作邑門下同屈枉貧民、

For I know how many are your offenses and how great your sins. There are those who oppress the innocent and take bribes and deprive the poor of justice in the courts.

I know how many crimes you have committed. You have sinned far too much. Among you are people who crush those who have done no wrong. They accept money from people who want special favors. They take away the rights of poor people in the courts.

For I know how many are your transgressions and how great are your sins— you who afflict the righteous, who take a bribe, and turn aside the needy in the gate.

For I know the vast number of your sins and the depth of your rebellions. You oppress good people by taking bribes and deprive the poor of justice in the courts.

For I know your offenses are many and your sins are great, You who are hostile to the righteous and accept bribes, And turn away the poor from justice at the gate.

For I know your manifold transgressions And your mighty sins: Afflicting the just and taking bribes; Diverting the poor from justice at the gate.

For I know how manifold are your transgressions, and how mighty are your sins— ye that afflict the just, that take a bribe, and that turn aside the needy in the gate from their right.

For I know your crimes are many and your sins innumerable. They oppress the righteous, take a bribe, and deprive the poor of justice at the gates.

For I know your manifold transgressions and your mighty sins: they afflict the just, they take a bribe, and they turn aside the poor in the gate[ from their right].

Certainly I am aware of your many rebellious acts and your numerous sins. You torment the innocent, you take bribes, and you deny justice to the needy at the city gate.

For I know how many your offenses, and how great are your sins— you who afflict the just, who take a bribe, and who turn away the needy in the courts.

They hate the one who convicts the guilty at the city gate, and they despise the one who speaks with integrity.

The LORD says: I will not relent from punishing Israel for three crimes, even four, because they sell a righteous person for silver and a needy person for a pair of sandals.They trample the heads of the poor on the dust of the ground and obstruct the path of the needy. A man and his father have sexual relations with the same girl, profaning my holy name.

However, his sons did not walk in his ways— they turned toward dishonest profit, took bribes, and perverted justice.

those who, with their speech, accuse a person of wrongdoing, who set a trap for the one mediating at the city gate and without cause deprive the righteous of justice.

Your rulers are rebels, friends of thieves. They all love graft and chase after bribes. They do not defend the rights of the fatherless, and the widow’s case never comes before them.

For the word of God is living and effective and sharper than any double-edged sword, penetrating as far as the separation of soul and spirit, joints and marrow. It is able to judge the thoughts and intentions of the heart.No creature is hidden from him, but all things are naked and exposed to the eyes of him to whom we must give an account.

Boaz went to the gate of the town and sat down there. Soon the family redeemer Boaz had spoken about came by. Boaz said,“ Come over here and sit down.” So he went over and sat down.

The God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, the God of our ancestors, has glorified his servant Jesus, whom you handed over and denied before Pilate, though he had decided to release him.You denied the Holy and Righteous One and asked to have a murderer released to you.

Which of the prophets did your ancestors not persecute? They even killed those who foretold the coming of the Righteous One, whose betrayers and murderers you have now become.

who acquit the guilty for a bribe and deprive the innocent of justice.

Look! The pay that you withheld from the workers who mowed your fields cries out, and the outcry of the harvesters has reached the ears of the Lord of Armies.

“ I will come to you in judgment, and I will be ready to witness against sorcerers and adulterers; against those who swear falsely; against those who oppress the hired worker, the widow, and the fatherless; and against those who deny justice to the resident alien. They do not fear me,” says the LORD of Armies.

And when many troubles and afflictions come to them, this song will testify against them, because their descendants will not have forgotten it. For I know what they are prone to do, even before I bring them into the land I swore to give them.”

This disaster happened because the people of Israel sinned against the LORD their God who had brought them out of the land of Egypt from the power of Pharaoh king of Egypt and because they worshiped other gods.They lived according to the customs of the nations that the LORD had dispossessed before the Israelites and according to what the kings of Israel did.The Israelites secretly did things against the LORD their God that were not right. They built high places in all their towns from watchtower to fortified city.They set up for themselves sacred pillars and Asherah poles on every high hill and under every green tree.They burned incense there on all the high places just like the nations that the LORD had driven out before them had done. They did evil things, angering the LORD.They served idols, although the LORD had told them,“ You must not do this.”Still, the LORD warned Israel and Judah through every prophet and every seer, saying,“ Turn from your evil ways and keep my commands and statutes according to the whole law I commanded your ancestors and sent to you through my servants the prophets.”But they would not listen. Instead they became obstinate like their ancestors who did not believe the LORD their God.They rejected his statutes and his covenant he had made with their ancestors and the warnings he had given them. They followed worthless idols and became worthless themselves, following the surrounding nations the LORD had commanded them not to imitate.They abandoned all the commands of the LORD their God. They made cast images for themselves, two calves, and an Asherah pole. They bowed in worship to all the stars in the sky and served Baal.They sacrificed their sons and daughters in the fire and practiced divination and interpreted omens. They devoted themselves to do what was evil in the LORD’s sight and angered him.

These two things will happen to you suddenly, in one day: loss of children and widowhood. They will happen to you in their entirety, in spite of your many sorceries and the potency of your spells.

Her leaders issue rulings for a bribe, her priests teach for payment, and her prophets practice divination for silver. Yet they lean on the LORD, saying,“ Isn’t the LORD among us? No disaster will overtake us.”

Both hands are good at accomplishing evil: the official and the judge demand a bribe; when the powerful man communicates his evil desire, they plot it together.

Don’t rob a poor person because he is poor, and don’t crush the oppressed at the city gate,

Even the most courageous of the warriors will flee naked on that day— this is the LORD’s declaration.

The one who lives righteously and speaks rightly, who refuses profit from extortion, whose hand never takes a bribe, who stops his ears from listening to murderous plots and shuts his eyes against evil schemes—

“ Appoint judges and officials for your tribes in all your towns the LORD your God is giving you. They are to judge the people with righteous judgment.

When I went out to the city gate and took my seat in the town square,the young men saw me and withdrew, while older men stood to their feet.City officials stopped talking and covered their mouths with their hands.The noblemen’s voices were hushed, and their tongues stuck to the roof of their mouths.When they heard me, they blessed me, and when they saw me, they spoke well of me.For I rescued the poor who cried out for help, and the fatherless child who had no one to support him.The dying blessed me, and I made the widow’s heart rejoice.I clothed myself in righteousness, and it enveloped me; my just decisions were like a robe and a turban.I was eyes to the blind and feet to the lame.I was a father to the needy, and I examined the case of the stranger.I shattered the fangs of the unjust and snatched the prey from his teeth.So I thought,“ I will die in my own nest and multiply my days as the sand.My roots will have access to water, and the dew will rest on my branches all night.My whole being will be refreshed within me, and my bow will be renewed in my hand.”Men listened to me with expectation, waiting silently for my advice.After a word from me they did not speak again; my speech settled on them like dew.They waited for me as for the rain and opened their mouths as for spring showers.If I smiled at them, they couldn’t believe it; they were thrilled at the light of my countenance.I directed their course and presided as chief. I lived as a king among his troops, like one who comforts those who mourn.

“ Knowing their works and their thoughts, I have come to gather all nations and languages; they will come and see my glory.

You have condemned, you have murdered the righteous, who does not resist you.

if I ever cast my vote against a fatherless child when I saw that I had support in the city gate,

to keep the poor from getting a fair trial and to deprive the needy among my people of justice, so that widows can be their spoil and they can plunder the fatherless.

because they have committed an outrage in Israel by committing adultery with their neighbors’ wives and have spoken in my name a lie, which I did not command them. I am he who knows, and I am a witness.” This is the LORD’s declaration.

Do not destroy me along with sinners, or my life along with men of bloodshedin whose hands are evil schemes and whose right hands are filled with bribes.

Crushing all the prisoners of the land beneath one’s feet,