No! You plan how to do what is unjust; you deal out violence in the earth.

不然！你们是心中作恶；你们在地上秤出你们手所行的强暴。

不然！你们心中作恶，量出你们在地上手中的残暴。

不然！你们心中作恶，量出你们在地上手中的残暴。

不，你们心中图谋不义，你们在地上行凶作恶。

不是的，你们心中策划奸恶；你们的手在地上施行强暴（本句原文作“你们在地上称出你们手中的强暴”）。

不，你们在心里行不义，你们在地上手施残暴。

不然！你們是心中作惡；你們在地上秤出你們手所行的強暴。

不然！你們心中作惡，量出你們在地上手中的殘暴。

不然！你們心中作惡，量出你們在地上手中的殘暴。

不，你們心中圖謀不義，你們在地上行兇作惡。

不是的，你們心中策劃奸惡；你們的手在地上施行強暴（本句原文作“你們在地上稱出你們手中的強暴”）。

不，你們是心中行着不義，而在地上以手秤出強暴的。

不，你們在心裡行不義，你們在地上手施殘暴。

非也、爾心造惡、且於地上、衡施強暴兮、

爾之中心、惟懷惡念、爾居斯土、所行強梁兮、

爾乃心懷奸惡、在此國中、以手施行強暴、

嗟時俗之詭詐兮。背繩墨而改錯。

No, in your heart you devise injustice, and your hands mete out violence on the earth.

No, in your hearts you plan to be unfair. With your hands you do terrible things on the earth.

No, in your hearts you devise wrongs; your hands deal out violence on earth.

No! You plot injustice in your hearts. You spread violence throughout the land.

No, you practice injustice in your hearts; with your hands you weigh out violence in the land.

No, in heart you practice injustice; On earth you clear a way for the violence of your hands.

No, in heart you work wickedness; You weigh out the violence of your hands in the earth.

Nay, in heart ye work wickedness; Ye weigh out the violence of your hands in the earth.

No, you practice injustice in your hearts; with your hands you weigh out violence in the land.

Yea, in heart ye work wickedness; ye weigh the violence of your hands in the earth.

No, in your heart you plot injustice. You measure out the violence of your hands in the earth.

Cruel rulers are not your allies, those who make oppressive laws.

Those who enact unjust policies are as good as dead, those who are always instituting unfair regulations,

The way of the righteous is level, the path of the righteous that you make is straight.

He upheld the cause of the poor and needy. So things went well for Judah.’ The LORD says,‘ That is a good example of what it means to know me.’But you are always thinking and looking for ways to increase your wealth by dishonest means. Your eyes and your heart are set on killing some innocent person and committing fraud and oppression.

So now we consider the arrogant to be happy; indeed, those who practice evil are successful. In fact, those who challenge God escape!’”

They take bribes within you to shed blood. You engage in usury and charge interest; you extort money from your neighbors. You have forgotten me, declares the sovereign LORD.

No one is concerned about justice; no one sets forth his case truthfully. They depend on false words and tell lies; they conceive of oppression and give birth to sin.They hatch the eggs of a poisonous snake and spin a spider’s web. Whoever eats their eggs will die, a poisonous snake is hatched.Their webs cannot be used for clothing; they cannot cover themselves with what they make. Their deeds are sinful; they commit violent crimes.

I said,“ Listen, you leaders of Jacob, you rulers of the nation of Israel! You ought to know what is just,yet you hate what is good, and love what is evil. You flay my people’s skin and rip the flesh from their bones.You devour my people’s flesh, strip off their skin, and crush their bones. You chop them up like flesh in a pot– like meat in a kettle.

Yes, they intend to do you harm; they dream up a scheme, but they do not succeed.

I saw something else on earth: In the place of justice, there was wickedness, and in the place of fairness, there was wickedness.

So the chief priests and the Pharisees called the council together and said,“ What are we doing? For this man is performing many miraculous signs.If we allow him to go on in this way, everyone will believe in him, and the Romans will come and take away our sanctuary and our nation.”Then one of them, Caiaphas, who was high priest that year, said,“ You know nothing at all!You do not realize that it is more to your advantage to have one man die for the people than for the whole nation to perish.”( Now he did not say this on his own, but because he was high priest that year, he prophesied that Jesus was going to die for the Jewish nation,and not for the Jewish nation only, but to gather together into one the children of God who are scattered.)So from that day they planned together to kill him.

Her officials are like wolves in her midst rending their prey– shedding blood and destroying lives– so they can get dishonest profit.

Listen to this, you leaders of the family of Jacob, you rulers of the nation of Israel! You hate justice and pervert all that is right.You build Zion through bloody crimes, Jerusalem through unjust violence.Her leaders take bribes when they decide legal cases, her priests proclaim rulings for profit, and her prophets read omens for pay. Yet they claim to trust the LORD and say,“ The LORD is among us. Disaster will not overtake us!”Therefore, because of you, Zion will be plowed up like a field, Jerusalem will become a heap of ruins, and the Temple Mount will become a hill overgrown with brush!