“‘ Therefore, you shepherds, hear the word of the LORD.

“所以，你们这些牧人要听耶和华的话。

“所以，你们这些牧人要听耶和华的话。

“所以，你们这些牧人要听耶和华的话。

“‘所以，你们这些牧人啊，要听耶和华的话。

“‘因此，你们这些作牧者的，要听耶和华的话：

「所以，你們這些牧人要聽耶和華的話。

「所以，你們這些牧人要聽耶和華的話。

「所以，你們這些牧人要聽耶和華的話。

「『所以，你們這些牧人啊，要聽耶和華的話。

“‘因此，你們這些作牧者的，要聽耶和華的話：

『所以牧民者啊，你們要聽永恆主的話語：

故爾牧者、其聽耶和華言、

故爾眾牧者、宜聽耶和華之言、

故爾眾牧者、當聽主言、

“‘ Therefore, you shepherds, hear the word of the Lord:

“‘ Shepherds, listen to the Lord’ s message. He says,

“ Therefore, you shepherds, hear the word of the Lord:

“ Therefore, you shepherds, hear the word of the Lord:

Therefore, you shepherds, hear the word of the Lord:

‘ Therefore, you shepherds, hear the word of the Lord:

Therefore, ye shepherds, hear the word of Jehovah:

“ Therefore, you shepherds, hear the word of the Lord.

Therefore, ye shepherds, hear the word of the LORD;

“‘ Therefore, you shepherds, hear the word of the LORD:

“‘ Therefore, you shepherds, hear Yahweh’s word:

therefore, you shepherds, hear the word of the LORD!

Hear the word of the LORD, you rulers of Sodom! Listen to the instruction of our God, you people of Gomorrah!

God stands in the divine assembly; he pronounces judgment among the gods:“ How long will you judge unjustly and show partiality to the wicked? SelahProvide justice for the needy and the fatherless; uphold the rights of the oppressed and the destitute.Rescue the poor and needy; save them from the power of the wicked.”They do not know or understand; they wander in darkness. All the foundations of the earth are shaken.I said,“ You are gods; you are all sons of the Most High.However, you will die like humans and fall like any other ruler.”

Say to the king and the queen mother: Take a humble seat, for your glorious crowns have fallen from your heads.

But the Lord said to him,“ Now you Pharisees clean the outside of the cup and dish, but inside you are full of greed and evil.Fools! Didn’t he who made the outside make the inside too?But give from what is within to the poor, and then everything is clean for you.“ But woe to you Pharisees! You give a tenth of mint, rue, and every kind of herb, and you bypass justice and love for God. These things you should have done without neglecting the others.“ Woe to you Pharisees! You love the front seat in the synagogues and greetings in the marketplaces.“ Woe to you! You are like unmarked graves; the people who walk over them don’t know it.”One of the experts in the law answered him,“ Teacher, when you say these things you insult us too.”Then he said,“ Woe also to you experts in the law! You load people with burdens that are hard to carry, and yet you yourselves don’t touch these burdens with one of your fingers.“ Woe to you! You build tombs for the prophets, and your fathers killed them.Therefore, you are witnesses that you approve the deeds of your fathers, for they killed them, and you build their monuments.Because of this, the wisdom of God said,‘ I will send them prophets and apostles, and some of them they will kill and persecute,’so that this generation may be held responsible for the blood of all the prophets shed since the foundation of the world—from the blood of Abel to the blood of Zechariah, who perished between the altar and the sanctuary.“ Yes, I tell you, this generation will be held responsible.“ Woe to you experts in the law! You have taken away the key to knowledge. You didn’t go in yourselves, and you hindered those who were trying to go in.”When he left there, the scribes and the Pharisees began to oppose him fiercely and to cross-examine him about many things;they were lying in wait for him to trap him in something he said.

“ Therefore, this decree is for you priests:

And you will say to them,‘ This is what the LORD says: I am about to fill all who live in this land— the kings who reign for David on his throne, the priests, the prophets, and all the residents of Jerusalem— with drunkenness.

“ Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! You shut the door of the kingdom of heaven in people’s faces. For you don’t go in, and you don’t allow those entering to go in.

You are to say,‘ Hear the word of the LORD, king of Judah, you who sit on the throne of David— you, your officers, and your people who enter these gates.This is what the LORD says: Administer justice and righteousness. Rescue the victim of robbery from his oppressor. Don’t exploit or brutalize the resident alien, the fatherless, or the widow. Don’t shed innocent blood in this place.

As for me, however, I am filled with power by the Spirit of the LORD, with justice and courage, to proclaim to Jacob his rebellion and to Israel his sin.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,