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

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.

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

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.

Arrogant people smear me with lies, but in truth I obey your commandments with all my heart.

“ Go up to Gilead to get medicine, O virgin daughter of Egypt! But your many treatments will bring you no healing.

“ I have heard all this before. What miserable comforters you are!

Is there no medicine in Gilead? Is there no physician there? Why is there no healing for the wounds of my people?

“ Surely the light of the wicked will be snuffed out. The sparks of their fire will not glow.The light in their tent will grow dark. The lamp hanging above them will be quenched.The confident stride of the wicked will be shortened. Their own schemes will be their downfall.The wicked walk into a net. They fall into a pit.A trap grabs them by the heel. A snare holds them tight.A noose lies hidden on the ground. A rope is stretched across their path.“ Terrors surround the wicked and trouble them at every step.Hunger depletes their strength, and calamity waits for them to stumble.Disease eats their skin; death devours their limbs.They are torn from the security of their homes and are brought down to the king of terrors.The homes of the wicked will burn down; burning sulfur rains on their houses.Their roots will dry up, and their branches will wither.All memory of their existence will fade from the earth; no one will remember their names.They will be thrust from light into darkness, driven from the world.They will have neither children nor grandchildren, nor any survivor in the place where they lived.People in the west are appalled at their fate; people in the east are horrified.They will say,‘ This was the home of a wicked person, the place of one who rejected God.’”

“ Look, I know what you’re thinking. I know the schemes you plot against me.You will tell me of rich and wicked people whose houses have vanished because of their sins.But ask those who have been around, and they will tell you the truth.Evil people are spared in times of calamity and are allowed to escape disaster.No one criticizes them openly or pays them back for what they have done.When they are carried to the grave, an honor guard keeps watch at their tomb.A great funeral procession goes to the cemetery. Many pay their respects as the body is laid to rest, and the earth gives sweet repose.“ How can your empty clichés comfort me? All your explanations are lies!”

Does God twist justice? Does the Almighty twist what is right?Your children must have sinned against him, so their punishment was well deserved.

“ You must not testify falsely against your neighbor.

She had suffered a great deal from many doctors, and over the years she had spent everything she had to pay them, but she had gotten no better. In fact, she had gotten worse.

“ For example, you must have lent money to your friend and demanded clothing as security. Yes, you stripped him to the bone.You must have refused water for the thirsty and food for the hungry.You probably think the land belongs to the powerful and only the privileged have a right to it!You must have sent widows away empty handed and crushed the hopes of orphans.That is why you are surrounded by traps and tremble from sudden fears.That is why you cannot see in the darkness, and waves of water cover you.“ God is so great— higher than the heavens, higher than the farthest stars.But you reply,‘ That’s why God can’t see what I am doing! How can he judge through the thick darkness?For thick clouds swirl about him, and he cannot see us. He is way up there, walking on the vault of heaven.’“ Will you continue on the old paths where evil people have walked?They were snatched away in the prime of life, the foundations of their lives washed away.For they said to God,‘ Leave us alone! What can the Almighty do to us?’Yet he was the one who filled their homes with good things, so I will have nothing to do with that kind of thinking.“ The righteous will be happy to see the wicked destroyed, and the innocent will laugh in contempt.They will say,‘ See how our enemies have been destroyed. The last of them have been consumed in the fire.’“ Submit to God, and you will have peace; then things will go well for you.Listen to his instructions, and store them in your heart.If you return to the Almighty, you will be restored— so clean up your life.If you give up your lust for money and throw your precious gold into the river,the Almighty himself will be your treasure. He will be your precious silver!“ Then you will take delight in the Almighty and look up to God.You will pray to him, and he will hear you, and you will fulfill your vows to him.You will succeed in whatever you choose to do, and light will shine on the road ahead of you.If people are in trouble and you say,‘ Help them,’ God will save them.Even sinners will be rescued; they will be rescued because your hands are pure.”

“ Stop and think! Do the innocent die? When have the upright been destroyed?My experience shows that those who plant trouble and cultivate evil will harvest the same.A breath from God destroys them. They vanish in a blast of his anger.The lion roars and the wildcat snarls, but the teeth of strong lions will be broken.The fierce lion will starve for lack of prey, and the cubs of the lioness will be scattered.

They offer superficial treatments for my people’s mortal wound. They give assurances of peace when there is no peace.

There is no one to help you or to bind up your injury. No medicine can heal you.

“ Cry for help, but will anyone answer you? Which of the angels will help you?Surely resentment destroys the fool, and jealousy kills the simple.I have seen that fools may be successful for the moment, but then comes sudden disaster.Their children are abandoned far from help; they are crushed in court with no one to defend them.The hungry devour their harvest, even when it is guarded by brambles. The thirsty pant after their wealth.

You have not taken care of the weak. You have not tended the sick or bound up the injured. You have not gone looking for those who have wandered away and are lost. Instead, you have ruled them with harshness and cruelty.

I am against these false prophets. Their imaginary dreams are flagrant lies that lead my people into sin. I did not send or appoint them, and they have no message at all for my people. I, the Lord, have spoken!

When Jesus heard this, he told them,“ Healthy people don’t need a doctor— sick people do. I have come to call not those who think they are righteous, but those who know they are sinners.”

You, too, have given no help. You have seen my calamity, and you are afraid.

“ When Israel and Judah saw how sick they were, Israel turned to Assyria— to the great king there— but he could neither help nor cure them.