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

“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、

The merchant uses dishonest scales and loves to defraud.

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.

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.

Dishonest scales are an abomination to the Lord, But a just weight is His delight.

Are there yet the treasures of wickedness In the house of the wicked, And the short measure that is an abomination?Shall I count pure those with the wicked scales, And with the bag of deceitful weights?

Saying:“ When will the New Moon be past, That we may sell grain? And the Sabbath, That we may trade wheat? Making the ephah small and the shekel large, Falsifying the scales by deceit,That we may buy the poor for silver, And the needy for a pair of sandals— Even sell the bad wheat?”

‘ You shall do no injustice in judgment, in measurement of length, weight, or volume.You shall have honest scales, honest weights, an honest ephah, and an honest hin: I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt.

Here I am. Witness against me before the Lord and before His anointed: Whose ox have I taken, or whose donkey have I taken, or whom have I cheated? Whom have I oppressed, or from whose hand have I received any bribe with which to blind my eyes? I will restore it to you.”

The faithful man has perished from the earth, And there is no one upright among men. They all lie in wait for blood; Every man hunts his brother with a net.

And He said to those who sold doves,“ Take these things away! Do not make My Father’s house a house of merchandise!”

Therefore, because you tread down the poor And take grain taxes from him, Though you have built houses of hewn stone, Yet you shall not dwell in them; You have planted pleasant vineyards, But you shall not drink wine from them.

The people will be oppressed, Every one by another and every one by his neighbor; The child will be insolent toward the elder, And the base toward the honorable.”

Honest weights and scales are the LORD’s; All the weights in the bag are His work.

They pant after the dust of the earth which is on the head of the poor, And pervert the way of the humble. A man and his father go in to the same girl, To defile My holy name.

And I said:“ Hear now, O heads of Jacob, And you rulers of the house of Israel: Is it not for you to know justice?You who hate good and love evil; Who strip the skin from My people, And the flesh from their bones;Who also eat the flesh of My people, Flay their skin from them, Break their bones, And chop them in pieces Like meat for the pot, Like flesh in the caldron.”

and say,‘ Thus says the Lord GOD to Jerusalem:“ Your birth and your nativity are from the land of Canaan; your father was an Amorite and your mother a Hittite.

The people of the land have used oppressions, committed robbery, and mistreated the poor and needy; and they wrongfully oppress the stranger.

Indeed the wages of the laborers who mowed your fields, which you kept back by fraud, cry out; and the cries of the reapers have reached the ears of the Lord of Sabaoth.

But those who desire to be rich fall into temptation and a snare, and into many foolish and harmful lusts which drown men in destruction and perdition.For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evil, for which some have strayed from the faith in their greediness, and pierced themselves through with many sorrows.

Yes, every pot in Jerusalem and Judah shall be holiness to the Lord of hosts. Everyone who sacrifices shall come and take them and cook in them. In that day there shall no longer be a Canaanite in the house of the Lord of hosts.

And I will come near you for judgment; I will be a swift witness Against sorcerers, Against adulterers, Against perjurers, Against those who exploit wage earners and widows and orphans, And against those who turn away an alien— Because they do not fear Me,” Says the Lord of hosts.

“ Proclaim in the palaces at Ashdod, And in the palaces in the land of Egypt, and say:‘ Assemble on the mountains of Samaria; See great tumults in her midst, And the oppressed within her.

Hear this word, you cows of Bashan, who are on the mountain of Samaria, Who oppress the poor, Who crush the needy, Who say to your husbands,“ Bring wine, let us drink!”

Woe to those who devise iniquity, And work out evil on their beds! At morning light they practice it, Because it is in the power of their hand.