The merchant uses dishonest scales and loves to defraud.

“以法莲是商人，手里有诡诈的天平，爱行欺骗。

商人手持诡诈的天平，喜爱欺压。

商人手持诡诈的天平，喜爱欺压。

以法莲是个不诚实的商人，手里拿着骗人的秤，喜欢压榨人。

以色列是个商人，手里拿着诡诈的天平，喜爱欺压别人。

以法蓮是商人，手裏有詭詐的天平，愛行欺騙。

商人手持詭詐的天平，喜愛欺壓。

商人手持詭詐的天平，喜愛欺壓。

以法蓮是個不誠實的商人，手裡拿著騙人的秤，喜歡壓榨人。

以色列是個商人，手裡拿著詭詐的天平，喜愛欺壓別人。

嘿，作買賣的！他手裏有詭詐的天平，他愛敲竹槓騙人。

彼為迦南人、手執欺誑之衡、以勒索為悅、

以法蓮為商賈、權衡不公、虐取人財為悅、

以法蓮猶如商賈、手持不公之權衡、樂行欺詐、

You are like a trader who uses dishonest scales. You love to cheat others.

A merchant, in whose hands are false balances, he loves to oppress.

But no, the people are like crafty merchants selling from dishonest scales— they love to cheat.

A merchant loves to extort with dishonest scales in his hands.

A merchant, in whose hands are fraudulent balances, Loves to exploit.

“ A cunning Canaanite! Deceitful scales are in his hand; He loves to oppress.

He is a trafficker, the balances of deceit are in his hand: he loveth to oppress.

A merchant loves to extort with dishonest scales in his hands.

[ He is] a merchant, the balances of deceit[ are] in his hand: he loveth to oppress.

The businessmen love to cheat; they use dishonest scales.

A merchant has dishonest scales in his hand. He loves to defraud.

The Lord detests dishonest scales, but accurate weights find favor with him.

Am I still to forget your ill- gotten treasures, you wicked house, and the short ephah, which is accursed?Shall I acquit someone with dishonest scales, with a bag of false weights?

saying,“ When will the New Moon be over that we may sell grain, and the Sabbath be ended that we may market wheat?”— skimping on the measure, boosting the price and cheating with dishonest scales,buying the poor with silver and the needy for a pair of sandals, selling even the sweepings with the wheat.

“‘ Do not use dishonest standards when measuring length, weight or quantity.Use honest scales and honest weights, an honest ephah and an honest hin. I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of Egypt.

Here I stand. Testify against me in the presence of the Lord and his anointed. Whose ox have I taken? Whose donkey have I taken? Whom have I cheated? Whom have I oppressed? From whose hand have I accepted a bribe to make me shut my eyes? If I have done any of these things, I will make it right.”

The faithful have been swept from the land; not one upright person remains. Everyone lies in wait to shed blood; they hunt each other with nets.

To those who sold doves he said,“ Get these out of here! Stop turning my Father’s house into a market!”

You levy a straw tax on the poor and impose a tax on their grain. Therefore, though you have built stone mansions, you will not live in them; though you have planted lush vineyards, you will not drink their wine.

People will oppress each other— man against man, neighbor against neighbor. The young will rise up against the old, the nobody against the honored.

Honest scales and balances belong to the Lord; all the weights in the bag are of his making.

They trample on the heads of the poor as on the dust of the ground and deny justice to the oppressed. Father and son use the same girl and so profane my holy name.

Then I said,“ Listen, you leaders of Jacob, you rulers of Israel. Should you not embrace justice,you who hate good and love evil; who tear the skin from my people and the flesh from their bones;who eat my people’s flesh, strip off their skin and break their bones in pieces; who chop them up like meat for the pan, like flesh for the pot?”

and say,‘ This is what the Sovereign Lord says to Jerusalem: Your ancestry and birth were in the land of the Canaanites; your father was an Amorite and your mother a Hittite.

The people of the land practice extortion and commit robbery; they oppress the poor and needy and mistreat the foreigner, denying them justice.

Look! The wages you failed to pay the workers who mowed your fields are crying out against you. The cries of the harvesters have reached the ears of the Lord Almighty.

Those who want to get rich fall into temptation and a trap and into many foolish and harmful desires that plunge people into ruin and destruction.For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evil. Some people, eager for money, have wandered from the faith and pierced themselves with many griefs.

Every pot in Jerusalem and Judah will be holy to the Lord Almighty, and all who come to sacrifice will take some of the pots and cook in them. And on that day there will no longer be a Canaanite in the house of the Lord Almighty.

“ So I will come to put you on trial. I will be quick to testify against sorcerers, adulterers and perjurers, against those who defraud laborers of their wages, who oppress the widows and the fatherless, and deprive the foreigners among you of justice, but do not fear me,” says the Lord Almighty.

Proclaim to the fortresses of Ashdod and to the fortresses of Egypt:“ Assemble yourselves on the mountains of Samaria; see the great unrest within her and the oppression among her people.”

Hear this word, you cows of Bashan on Mount Samaria, you women who oppress the poor and crush the needy and say to your husbands,“ Bring us some drinks!”

Woe to those who plan iniquity, to those who plot evil on their beds! At morning’s light they carry it out because it is in their power to do it.