No, in your hearts you plan to be unfair. With your hands you do terrible things on 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 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! You plan how to do what is unjust; you deal out violence in the earth.

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

Can you have anything to do with rulers who aren’t fair? Can those who make laws that cause suffering be friends of yours?

How terrible it will be for you who make laws that aren’t fair! How terrible for you who write laws that make life hard for others!

The path of godly people is level. You are the God who does what is right. You make their way smooth.

He stood up for those who were poor or needy. So everything went well with him. That is what it means to know me,” announces the Lord.“ Jehoiakim, the only thing on your mind is to get rich by cheating others. You would even kill people who are not guilty of doing anything wrong. You would mistreat them. You would take everything they own.”

But now we call proud people blessed. Things go well with those who do what is evil. And God doesn’t even punish those who test him.’ ”

You accept money from people who want special favors. You do this to spill someone’s blood. You charge interest to poor people when you lend them money. You make money from them. You get rich by cheating your neighbors. And you have forgotten me,” announces the Lord and King.

People aren’t fair when they present cases in court. They aren’t honest when they state their case. They depend on weak arguments. They tell lies. They plan to make trouble. Then they carry it out.The plans they make are like the eggs of poisonous snakes. Anyone who eats those eggs will die. When one of them is broken, a snake comes out.Those people weave their evil plans together like a spider’s web. But the webs they make can’t be used as clothes. They can’t cover themselves with what they make. Their acts are evil. They do things to harm others.

Then I said,“ Listen, you leaders of Jacob’s people! Pay attention, you rulers of Israel! You should want to judge others fairly.But you hate what is good. And you love what is evil. You are like someone who tears the skin off my people. You pull the meat off their bones.You eat my people’s bodies. You strip off their skin. You break their bones in pieces. You chop them up like meat. You put them in a cooking pot.”

Your enemies make evil plans against you. They think up evil things to do. But they can’t succeed.

Here’s something else I saw on earth. Where people should be treated right, they are treated wrong. Where people should be treated fairly, they are treated unfairly.

Then the chief priests and the Pharisees called a meeting of the Sanhedrin.“ What can we do?” they asked.“ This man is performing many signs.If we let him keep on doing this, everyone will believe in him. Then the Romans will come. They will take away our temple and our nation.”One of the Jewish leaders spoke up. His name was Caiaphas. He was high priest at that time. He said,“ You don’t know anything at all!You don’t realize what is good for you. It is better if one man dies for the people than if the whole nation is destroyed.”He did not say this on his own because he was high priest at that time. He prophesied that Jesus would die for the Jewish nation.He also prophesied that Jesus would die for God’s children scattered everywhere. He would die to bring them together and make them one.So from that day on, the Jewish rulers planned to kill Jesus.

The officials in the land are like wolves that tear their food apart. They spill blood and kill people to get rich.

Listen to me, you leaders of Jacob’s people! Pay attention, you rulers of Israel! You hate to do what is fair. You twist everything that is right.You build up Zion by spilling the blood of others. You build Jerusalem by doing what is evil.Your judges take money from people who want special favors. Your priests teach only if they get paid for it. Your prophets won’t tell fortunes unless they receive money. But you still look for the Lord’ s help. You say,“ The Lord is with us. No trouble will come on us.”So because of what you have done, Zion will be plowed up like a field. Jerusalem will be turned into a pile of trash. The temple hill will be covered with bushes and weeds.