When their drinking is over, they turn to promiscuity. Israel’s leaders fervently love disgrace.

他们所喝的已经发酸，他们时常行淫，他们的官长最爱羞耻的事。

他们喝完了酒，荒淫无度，他们的官长甚爱羞耻的事。

他们喝完了酒，荒淫无度，他们的官长甚爱羞耻的事。

他们酒足兴尽之后，便不住地行淫；他们的首领恋慕羞耻之事。

他们醉意全消以后，就不断行淫；他们的官长最喜爱耻辱的事。

他們所喝的已經發酸，他們時常行淫，他們的官長最愛羞恥的事。

他們喝完了酒，荒淫無度，他們的官長甚愛羞恥的事。

他們喝完了酒，荒淫無度，他們的官長甚愛羞恥的事。

他們酒足興盡之後，便不住地行淫；他們的首領戀慕羞恥之事。

他們醉意全消以後，就不斷行淫；他們的官長最喜愛恥辱的事。

嘿，一羣醉漢！一味行淫；他們深愛羞辱、勝過他們所誇耀的。

彼縱飲既畢、則行淫不已、牧伯悅乎恥辱、

彼縱飲無度、恆作淫行、民牧所好、可醜之事、

彼縱飲已畢、遂即行淫、民牧喜悅可恥之事、

Even when their drinks are gone, they continue their prostitution; their rulers dearly love shameful ways.

They continue to be unfaithful to me even when their drinks are gone. And their rulers love to do shameful things.

When their drink is gone, they give themselves to whoring; their rulers dearly love shame.

When the rulers of Israel finish their drinking, off they go to find some prostitutes. They love shame more than honor.

When their drinking is over, they turn to promiscuity. Israel’s leaders fervently love disgrace.

Their liquor is gone, They prostitute themselves continually; Their rulers dearly love shame.

Their drink is rebellion, They commit harlotry continually. Her rulers dearly love dishonor.

Their drink is become sour; they play the harlot continually; her rulers dearly love shame.

Their drink is sour: they have committed whoredom continually: her rulers[ with] shame do love, Give ye.

They consume their alcohol, then engage in cult prostitution; they dearly love their shameful behavior.

Their drink has become sour. They play the prostitute continually. Her rulers dearly love their shameful way.

Her leaders issue rulings for a bribe, her priests teach for payment, and her prophets practice divination for money. Yet they lean on the Lord, saying,“ Isn’t the Lord among us? No disaster will overtake us.”

The nobles of the peoples have assembled with the people of the God of Abraham. For the leaders of the earth belong to God; He is greatly exalted.

You must not take a bribe, for a bribe blinds the clear-sighted and corrupts the words of the righteous.

I planted you, a choice vine from the very best seed. How then could you turn into a degenerate, foreign vine?

This disaster happened because the people of Israel had sinned against the Lord their God who had brought them out of the land of Egypt from the power of Pharaoh king of Egypt and because they had worshiped other gods.They had lived according to the customs of the nations that the Lord had dispossessed before the Israelites and the customs the kings of Israel had introduced.The Israelites secretly did what was not right against the Lord their God. They built high places in all their towns from watchtower to fortified city.They set up for themselves sacred pillars and Asherah poles on every high hill and under every green tree.They burned incense on all the high places just like those nations that the Lord had driven out before them. They did evil things, provoking the Lord.They served idols, although the Lord had told them,“ You must not do this.”Still, the Lord warned Israel and Judah through every prophet and every seer, saying,“ Turn from your evil ways and keep My commands and statutes according to all the law I commanded your ancestors and sent to you through My servants the prophets.”But they would not listen. Instead they became obstinate like their ancestors who did not believe the Lord their God.They rejected His statutes and His covenant He had made with their ancestors and the decrees He had given them. They pursued worthless idols and became worthless themselves, following the surrounding nations the Lord had commanded them not to imitate.They abandoned all the commands of the Lord their God. They made cast images for themselves, two calves, and an Asherah pole. They worshiped the whole heavenly host and served Baal.They made their sons and daughters pass through the fire and practiced divination and interpreted omens. They devoted themselves to do what was evil in the Lord’s sight and provoked Him.

Cursing, lying, murder, stealing, and adultery are rampant; one act of bloodshed follows another.

The leech has two daughters:“ Give, Give!” Three things are never satisfied; four never say,“ Enough!”:Sheol; a childless womb; earth, which is never satisfied with water; and fire, which never says,“ Enough!”

The faithful city— what an adulteress she has become! She was once full of justice. Righteousness once dwelt in her— but now, murderers!Your silver has become dross, your beer is diluted with water.

For I know your crimes are many and your sins innumerable. They oppress the righteous, take a bribe, and deprive the poor of justice at the gates.

Here I am. Bring charges against me before the Lord and His anointed: Whose ox or donkey have I taken? Whom have I wronged or mistreated? From whose hand have I taken a bribe to overlook something? I will return it to you.”“ You haven’t wronged us, you haven’t mistreated us, and you haven’t taken anything from anyone’s hand,” they responded.

Do not deny justice or show partiality to anyone. Do not accept a bribe, for it blinds the eyes of the wise and twists the words of the righteous.

For their vine is from the vine of Sodom and from the fields of Gomorrah. Their grapes are poisonous; their clusters are bitter.Their wine is serpents’ venom, the deadly poison of cobras.

They will eat but not be satisfied; they will be promiscuous but not multiply. For they have abandoned their devotion to the Lord.

However, his sons did not walk in his ways— they turned toward dishonest gain, took bribes, and perverted justice.

Both hands are good at accomplishing evil: the official and the judge demand a bribe; when the powerful man communicates his evil desire, they plot it together.