You use lies like plaster; you are all worthless healers.

你们是编造谎言的，都是无用的医生。

但你们是编造谎言的，全都是无用的医生。

但你们是编造谎言的，全都是无用的医生。

而你们只会编造谎言，都是无用的庸医。

你们都是捏造谎言的，都是无用的医生。

你們是編造謊言的，都是無用的醫生。

但你們是編造謊言的，全都是無用的醫生。

但你們是編造謊言的，全都是無用的醫生。

而你們只會編造謊言，都是無用的庸醫。

你們都是捏造謊言的，都是無用的醫生。

你們呢，你們是粉飾虛假的，是無用的醫生。

爾乃造妄言者、俱為無用之醫、

爾曹言詞誕妄、如庸醫治疾、斷不能愈。

爾造虛妄之言詞、皆如無用之醫士、

You, however, smear me with lies; you are worthless physicians, all of you!

But you spread lies about me and take away my good name. If you are trying to heal me, you aren’t very good doctors!

As for you, you whitewash with lies; worthless physicians are you all.

As for you, you smear me with lies. As physicians, you are worthless quacks.

But you smear me with lies; You are all worthless physicians.

But you forgers of lies, You are all worthless physicians.

But ye are forgers of lies; Ye are all physicians of no value.

But you coat the truth with lies; you are all worthless doctors.

But ye[ are] forgers of lies, ye[ are] all physicians of no value.

But you, however, are inventors of lies; all of you are worthless physicians!

But you are forgers of lies. You are all physicians of no value.

The arrogant have smeared me with lies, but I obey your precepts with all my heart.

Go up to Gilead and get balm, Virgin Daughter Egypt! You have multiplied remedies in vain; there is no healing for you.

I have heard many things like these. You are all miserable comforters.

Is there no balm in Gilead? Is there no physician there? So why has the healing of my dear people not come about?

Yes, the light of the wicked is extinguished; the flame of his fire does not glow.The light in his tent grows dark, and the lamp beside him is put out.His powerful stride is shortened, and his own schemes trip him up.For his own feet lead him into a net, and he strays into its mesh.A trap catches him by the heel; a noose seizes him.A rope lies hidden for him on the ground, and a snare waits for him along the path.Terrors frighten him on every side and harass him at every step.His strength is depleted; disaster lies ready for him to stumble.Parts of his skin are eaten away; death’s firstborn consumes his limbs.He is ripped from the security of his tent and marched away to the king of terrors.Nothing he owned remains in his tent. Burning sulfur is scattered over his home.His roots below dry up, and his branches above wither away.All memory of him perishes from the earth; he has no name anywhere.He is driven from light to darkness and chased from the inhabited world.He has no children or descendants among his people, no survivor where he used to live.Those in the west are appalled at his fate, while those in the east tremble in horror.Indeed, such is the dwelling of the unjust man, and this is the place of the one who does not know God.

I know your thoughts very well, the schemes by which you would wrong me.For you say,“ Where now is the nobleman’s house?” and“ Where are the tents the wicked lived in?”Have you never consulted those who travel the roads? Don’t you accept their reports?Indeed, the evil person is spared from the day of disaster, rescued from the day of wrath.Who would denounce his behavior to his face? Who would repay him for what he has done?He is carried to the grave, and someone keeps watch over his tomb.The dirt on his grave is sweet to him. Everyone follows behind him, and those who go before him are without number.So how can you offer me such futile comfort? Your answers are deceptive.

Does God pervert justice? Does the Almighty pervert what is right?Since your children sinned against him, he gave them over to their rebellion.

Do not give false testimony against your neighbor.

had endured much under many doctors. She had spent everything she had and was not helped at all. On the contrary, she became worse.

For you took collateral from your brothers without cause, stripping off their clothes and leaving them naked.You gave no water to the thirsty and withheld food from the famished,while the land belonged to a powerful man and an influential man lived on it.You sent widows away empty-handed, and the strength of the fatherless was crushed.Therefore snares surround you, and sudden dread terrifies you,or darkness, so you cannot see, and a flood of water covers you.Isn’t God as high as the heavens? And look at the highest stars— how lofty they are!Yet you say,“ What does God know? Can he judge through total darkness?Clouds veil him so that he cannot see, as he walks on the circle of the sky.”Will you continue on the ancient path that wicked men have walked?They were snatched away before their time, and their foundations were washed away by a river.They were the ones who said to God,“ Leave us alone!” and“ What can the Almighty do to us?”But it was he who filled their houses with good things. The counsel of the wicked is far from me!The righteous see this and rejoice; the innocent mock them, saying,“ Surely our opponents are destroyed, and fire has consumed what they left behind.”Come to terms with God and be at peace; in this way good will come to you.Receive instruction from his mouth, and place his sayings in your heart.If you return to the Almighty, you will be renewed. If you banish injustice from your tentand consign your gold to the dust, the gold of Ophir to the stones in the wadis,the Almighty will be your gold and your finest silver.Then you will delight in the Almighty and lift up your face to God.You will pray to him, and he will hear you, and you will fulfill your vows.When you make a decision, it will be carried out, and light will shine on your ways.When others are humiliated and you say,“ Lift them up,” God will save the humble.He will even rescue the guilty one, who will be rescued by the purity of your hands.

Consider: Who has perished when he was innocent? Where have the honest been destroyed?In my experience, those who plow injustice and those who sow trouble reap the same.They perish at a single blast from God and come to an end by the breath of his nostrils.The lion may roar and the fierce lion growl, but the teeth of young lions are broken.The strong lion dies if it catches no prey, and the cubs of the lioness are scattered.

They have treated my people’s brokenness superficially, claiming,“ Peace, peace,” when there is no peace.

You have no defender for your case. There is no remedy for your sores, and no healing for you.

Call out! Will anyone answer you? Which of the holy ones will you turn to?For anger kills a fool, and jealousy slays the gullible.I have seen a fool taking root, but I immediately pronounced a curse on his home.His children are far from safety. They are crushed at the city gate, with no one to rescue them.The hungry consume his harvest, even taking it out of the thorns. The thirsty pant for his children’s wealth.

You have not strengthened the weak, healed the sick, bandaged the injured, brought back the strays, or sought the lost. Instead, you have ruled them with violence and cruelty.

I am against those who prophesy false dreams”— the LORD’s declaration—“ telling them and leading my people astray with their reckless lies. It was not I who sent or commanded them, and they are of no benefit at all to these people”— this is the LORD’s declaration.

When Jesus heard this, he told them,“ It is not those who are well who need a doctor, but those who are sick. I didn’t come to call the righteous, but sinners.”

So this is what you have now become to me. When you see something dreadful, you are afraid.

When Ephraim saw his sickness and Judah his wound, Ephraim went to Assyria and sent a delegation to the great king. But he cannot cure you or heal your wound.