You who turn justice to wormwood, and cast down righteousness to the earth:

你们这使公平变为茵陈、将公义丢弃于地的，

你们这使公平变为茵陈，将公义丢弃于地的人哪！

你们这使公平变为茵陈，将公义丢弃于地的人哪！

你们这些使正义变为苦艾、将公义丢弃在地的人啊，

他们使公正变为苦堇，把公义弃于地上。

你們這使公平變為茵蔯、將公義丟棄於地的，

你們這使公平變為茵蔯，將公義丟棄於地的人哪！

你們這使公平變為茵蔯，將公義丟棄於地的人哪！

你們這些使正義變為苦艾、將公義丟棄在地的人啊，

他們使公正變為苦堇，把公義棄於地上。

那些使公平變為苦堇，將公義摔落於地的，

爾曹變公平為茵蔯、委義於地、

爾不秉公、不行義、反使人茹荼飲酖、

爾曹判斷、不秉公義、使人受屈苦、若食茵蔯、爾曹拋棄公義於地、

There are those who turn justice into bitterness and cast righteousness to the ground.

There are people among you who turn what is fair into something bitter. They throw down to the ground what is right.

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

You twist justice, making it a bitter pill for the oppressed. You treat the righteous like dirt.

Those who turn justice into wormwood also throw righteousness to the ground.

For those who turn justice into wormwood, And throw righteousness to the earth.”

You who turn justice to wormwood, And lay righteousness to rest in the earth!”

Ye who turn justice to wormwood, and cast down righteousness to the earth,

Those who turn justice into wormwood throw righteousness to the ground.

Ye who turn judgment to wormwood, and leave off righteousness in the earth,

The Israelites turn justice into bitterness; they throw what is fair and right to the ground.

Do horses run on the rocky crags? Does one plow there with oxen? But you have turned justice into poison, and the fruit of righteousness into bitterness;

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

those who have turned back from following Yahweh, and those who haven’t sought Yahweh nor inquired after him.

“ Again, when a righteous man turns from his righteousness, and commits iniquity, and I lay a stumbling block before him, he will die. Because you have not given him warning, he will die in his sin, and his righteous deeds which he has done will not be remembered; but I will require his blood at your hand.

When the righteous turns from his righteousness, and commits iniquity, he will even die therein.

Aren’t you from everlasting, Yahweh my God, my Holy One? We will not die. Yahweh, you have appointed him for judgment. You, Rock, have established him to punish.You who have purer eyes than to see evil, and who cannot look on perversity, why do you tolerate those who deal treacherously, and keep silent when the wicked swallows up the man who is more righteous than he,and make men like the fish of the sea, like the creeping things, that have no ruler over them?

“ But when the righteous turns away from his righteousness, and commits iniquity, and does according to all the abominations that the wicked man does, should he live? None of his righteous deeds that he has done will be remembered. In his trespass that he has trespassed, and in his sin that he has sinned, in them he shall die.

Therefore, because you trample on the poor, and take taxes from him of wheat: You have built houses of cut stone, but you will not dwell in them. You have planted pleasant vineyards, but you shall not drink their wine.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.

“ You, son of man, tell the children of your people,‘ The righteousness of the righteous will not deliver him in the day of his disobedience. And as for the wickedness of the wicked, he will not fall by it in the day that he turns from his wickedness; neither will he who is righteous be able to live by it in the day that he sins.When I tell the righteous that he will surely live; if he trusts in his righteousness, and commits iniquity, none of his righteous deeds will be remembered; but he will die in his iniquity that he has committed.

The words of his mouth are iniquity and deceit. He has ceased to be wise and to do good.

lest there should be among you man, woman, family, or tribe whose heart turns away today from Yahweh our God, to go to serve the gods of those nations; lest there should be among you a root that produces bitter poison;

Your princes are rebellious and companions of thieves. Everyone loves bribes and follows after rewards. They don’t defend the fatherless, neither does the cause of the widow come to them.

But as for those who turn away to their crooked ways, Yahweh will lead them away with the workers of iniquity. Peace be on Israel.

transgressing and denying Yahweh, and turning away from following our God, speaking oppression and revolt, conceiving and uttering from the heart words of falsehood.Justice is turned away backward, and righteousness stands far away; for truth has fallen in the street, and uprightness can’t enter.

For the vineyard of Yahweh of Armies is the house of Israel, and the men of Judah his pleasant plant: and he looked for justice, but, behold, oppression; for righteousness, but, behold, a cry of distress.

Woe to those who decree unrighteous decrees, and to the writers who write oppressive decrees;