A righteous person who yields to the wicked is like a muddied spring or a polluted well.

义人在恶人面前退缩，好像趟浑之泉，弄浊之井。

义人在恶人面前退缩，好像搅浑之泉，污染之井。

义人在恶人面前退缩，好像搅浑之泉，污染之井。

义人向恶人低头，就像清泉被搅浑，水井受污染。

义人在恶人面前屈服，好像混浊了的水泉、污染了的水井。

义人在恶人面前动摇，就如被践踏的泉源，受污染的水泉。

義人在惡人面前退縮，好像蹚渾之泉，弄濁之井。

義人在惡人面前退縮，好像攪渾之泉，污染之井。

義人在惡人面前退縮，好像攪渾之泉，污染之井。

義人向惡人低頭，就像清泉被攪渾，水井受污染。

義人在惡人面前屈服，好像混濁了的水泉、污染了的水井。

義人在惡人面前退讓，好像踹渾的泉源、踏濁的水源。

義人在惡人面前動搖，就如被踐踏的泉源，受汙染的水泉。

義人為惡人而卻退、如泉渾井濁、

義人失足、為惡者目擊、猶混源濁井。

善人於惡人前傾躓、如泉渾井濁、

Like a muddied spring or a polluted well are the righteous who give way to the wicked.

Sometimes godly people give in to those who are evil. Then they become like a muddy spring of water or a polluted well.

Like a muddied spring or a polluted fountain is a righteous man who gives way before the wicked.

If the godly give in to the wicked, it’s like polluting a fountain or muddying a spring.

A righteous person who yields to the wicked is like a muddied spring or a polluted well.

Like a trampled spring and a polluted well, So is a righteous person who gives way before the wicked.

A righteous man who falters before the wicked Is like a murky spring and a polluted well.

As a troubled fountain, and a corrupted spring, So is a righteous man that giveth way before the wicked.

A righteous man falling down before the wicked[ is as] a troubled fountain, and a corrupt spring.

Like a muddied spring and a polluted well, so is a righteous person who gives way before the wicked.

Like a muddied spring and a polluted well, so is a righteous man who gives way before the wicked.

Then I saw that the woman was drunk on the blood of the saints and on the blood of the witnesses to Jesus. When I saw her, I was greatly astonished.

Now Peter was sitting outside in the courtyard. A servant approached him and she said,“ You were with Jesus the Galilean too.”But he denied it in front of everyone:“ I don’t know what you’re talking about!”When he had gone out to the gateway, another woman saw him and told those who were there,“ This man was with Jesus the Nazarene!”And again he denied it with an oath,“ I don’t know the man!”After a little while those standing there approached and said to Peter,“ You certainly are one of them, since even your accent gives you away.”Then he started to curse and to swear with an oath,“ I do not know the man!” Immediately a rooster crowed,

Isn’t it enough for you to feed on the good pasture? Must you also trample the rest of the pasture with your feet? Or isn’t it enough that you drink the clear water? Must you also muddy the rest with your feet?Yet My flock has to feed on what your feet have trampled, and drink what your feet have muddied.

This is why I am sending you prophets, sages, and scribes. Some of them you will kill and crucify, and some of them you will flog in your synagogues and hound from town to town.So all the righteous blood shed on the earth will be charged to you, from the blood of righteous Abel to the blood of Zechariah, son of Berechiah, whom you murdered between the sanctuary and the altar.I assure you: All these things will come on this generation!“ Jerusalem, Jerusalem! She who kills the prophets and stones those who are sent to her. How often I wanted to gather your children together, as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, yet you were not willing!

But they conspired against him and stoned him at the king’s command in the courtyard of the Lord’s temple.King Joash didn’t remember the kindness that Zechariah’s father Jehoiada had extended to him, but killed his son. While he was dying, he said,“ May the Lord see and demand an account.”

who killed both the Lord Jesus and the prophets and persecuted us; they displease God and are hostile to everyone,

Cain said to his brother Abel,“ Let’s go out to the field.” And while they were in the field, Cain attacked his brother Abel and killed him.

Which of the prophets did your fathers not persecute? They even killed those who announced beforehand the coming of the Righteous One, whose betrayers and murderers you have now become.

“ Son of man, lament for Pharaoh king of Egypt and say to him: You compare yourself to a lion of the nations, but you are like a monster in the seas. You thrash about in your rivers, churn up the waters with your feet, and muddy the rivers.”

Ahimelech replied to the king:“ Who among all your servants is as faithful as David? He is the king’s son-in-law, captain of your bodyguard, and honored in your house.Was today the first time I inquired of God for him? Of course not! Please don’t let the king make an accusation against your servant or any of my father’s household, for your servant didn’t have any idea about all this.”But the king said,“ You will die, Ahimelech— you and your father’s whole family!”Then the king ordered the guards standing by him,“ Turn and kill the priests of the Lord because they sided with David. For they knew he was fleeing, but they didn’t tell me.” But the king’s servants would not lift a hand to execute the priests of the Lord.So the king said to Doeg,“ Go and execute the priests!” So Doeg the Edomite went and executed the priests himself. On that day, he killed 85 men who wore linen ephods.