They utter empty words, taking false oaths and making empty agreements. Therefore legal disputes sprout up like poisonous weeds in the furrows of a plowed field.

他们为立约说谎言，起假誓；因此，灾罚如苦菜滋生在田间的犁沟中。

他们讲空话，以假誓立约；因此，惩罚如苦菜滋生在田间的犁沟中。

他们讲空话，以假誓立约；因此，惩罚如苦菜滋生在田间的犁沟中。

他们说虚话，起假誓，立空盟，因此不法之事滋长，犹如田间犁沟中蔓延的毒草。

他们说很多话，起假誓，又立盟约；所以审判像毒草一般在田间的犁沟中生长起来。

他們為立約說謊言，起假誓；因此，災罰如苦菜滋生在田間的犂溝中。

他們講空話，以假誓立約；因此，懲罰如苦菜滋生在田間的犁溝中。

他們講空話，以假誓立約；因此，懲罰如苦菜滋生在田間的犁溝中。

他們說虛話，起假誓，立空盟，因此不法之事滋長，猶如田間犁溝中蔓延的毒草。

他們說很多話，起假誓，又立盟約；所以審判像毒草一般在田間的犁溝中生長起來。

嘿，講空話，起假誓，立盟約！莫怪司法如毒草、發生於田間的犂溝中呀！

彼出虛言、假誓立約、故災罰滋生、若毒草之於隴畝、

先知曰、斯民立約誑辭是尚、故災害必降、譬諸茵蔯、生於田疇、

斯民出言惟虛、立盟妄誓、故災罰滋生、如茵蔯生於田隴、

They make many promises, take false oaths and make agreements; therefore lawsuits spring up like poisonous weeds in a plowed field.

They make a lot of promises. They make agreements among themselves. They make promises they don’t mean to keep. So court cases spring up like poisonous weeds in a plowed field.

They utter mere words; with empty oaths they make covenants; so judgment springs up like poisonous weeds in the furrows of the field.

They spout empty words and make covenants they don’t intend to keep. So injustice springs up among them like poisonous weeds in a farmer’s field.

They speak mere words, taking false oaths while making covenants. So lawsuits break out like poisonous weeds in the furrows of a field.

They speak mere words, With worthless oaths they make covenants; And judgment sprouts like poisonous weeds in the furrows of the field.

They have spoken words, Swearing falsely in making a covenant. Thus judgment springs up like hemlock in the furrows of the field.

They speak vain words, swearing falsely in making covenants: therefore judgment springeth up as hemlock in the furrows of the field.

They speak mere words, taking false oaths while making covenants. So lawsuits break out like poisonous weeds in the furrows of a field.

They have spoken words, swearing falsely in making a covenant: thus judgment springeth up as hemlock in the furrows of the field.

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

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

There is only cursing, lying, murder, stealing, and adultery. They resort to violence and bloodshed.

Can horses run on rocky cliffs? Can one plow the sea with oxen? Yet you have turned justice into a poisonous plant, and the fruit of righteous actions into a bitter plant.

He took one from the royal family, made a treaty with him, and put him under oath. He then took the leaders of the landso it would be a lowly kingdom which could not rise on its own but must keep its treaty with him in order to stand.But this one from Israel’s royal family rebelled against the king of Babylon by sending his emissaries to Egypt to obtain horses and a large army. Will he prosper? Will the one doing these things escape? Can he break the covenant and escape?“‘ As surely as I live, declares the sovereign LORD, surely in the city of the king who crowned him, whose oath he despised and whose covenant he broke– in the middle of Babylon he will die!Pharaoh with his great army and mighty horde will not help him in battle, when siege ramps are erected and siege-walls are built to kill many people.He despised the oath by breaking the covenant. Take note– he gave his promise and did all these things– he will not escape!“‘ Therefore this is what the sovereign LORD says: As surely as I live, I will certainly repay him for despising my oath and breaking my covenant!

King Shalmaneser of Assyria threatened him; Hoshea became his subject and paid him tribute.The king of Assyria discovered that Hoshea was planning a revolt. Hoshea had sent messengers to King So of Egypt and had not sent his annual tribute to the king of Assyria. So the king of Assyria arrested him and imprisoned him.

At Adam they broke the covenant; Oh how they were unfaithful to me!

unloving, irreconcilable, slanderers, without self- control, savage, opposed to what is good,

senseless, covenant- breakers, heartless, ruthless.

Beware that the heart of no man, woman, clan, or tribe among you turns away from the LORD our God today to pursue and serve the gods of those nations; beware that there is among you no root producing poisonous and bitter fruit.

See to it that no one comes short of the grace of God, that no one be like a bitter root springing up and causing trouble, and through him many become defiled.

We have rebelled and tried to deceive the LORD; we turned back from following our God. We stir up oppression and rebellion; we tell lies we concocted in our minds.Justice is driven back; godliness stands far off. Indeed, honesty stumbles in the city square and morality is not even able to enter.Honesty has disappeared; the one who tries to avoid evil is robbed. The LORD watches and is displeased, for there is no justice.

Then the third angel blew his trumpet, and a huge star burning like a torch fell from the sky; it landed on a third of the rivers and on the springs of water.( Now the name of the star is Wormwood.) So a third of the waters became wormwood, and many people died from these waters because they were poisoned.

Indeed Israel is the vineyard of the LORD who commands armies, the people of Judah are the cultivated place in which he took delight. He waited for justice, but look what he got– disobedience! He waited for fairness, but look what he got– cries for help!

For I see that you are bitterly envious and in bondage to sin.”