Blessed is the man Who has filled his quiver with them. They are not ashamed, When they speak with their enemies in the gate.
Isaiah 29:21 - The Scriptures 2009 those who make a man to sin in word, and lay a snare for him who reproves in the gate, and turn aside the righteous with empty reasoning. Dugang nga mga bersyonKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 that make a man an offender for a word, and lay a snare for him that reproveth in the gate, and turn aside the just for a thing of nought. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition Those who make a man an offender and bring condemnation upon him with a word, and lay a trap for him who upholds justice at the city gate, and thrust aside the innocent and truly righteous with an empty plea. American Standard Version (1901) that make a man an offender in his cause, and lay a snare for him that reproveth in the gate, and turn aside the just with a thing of nought. Common English Bible all who incriminate others wrongly, who entrap the judge in the gate, and pointlessly postpone justice for the innocent. Catholic Public Domain Version For they caused men to sin by a word, and they supplanted him who argued against them at the gates, and they turned away from justice in vain. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version That made men sin by word, and supplanted him that reproved them in the gate, and declined in vain from the just. |
Blessed is the man Who has filled his quiver with them. They are not ashamed, When they speak with their enemies in the gate.
To show partiality is not good, Because for a piece of bread a man would transgress.
“Woe to those making unrighteous inscriptions, and writers who have prescribed toil,
And the methods of the scoundrel are evil – he has devised wicked plans to destroy the poor with words of falsehood, even when the needy pleads for right-ruling.
Woe to those who call evil good, and good evil; who put darkness for light, and light for darkness; who put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter!
who declare right the wrong for a bribe, and the righteousness of the righteous they turn aside from him!
And the truth is lacking, and whoever turns away from evil makes himself a prey. And יהוה saw, and it displeased Him that there was no right-ruling.
Then they said, “Come and let us devise plans against Yirmeyahu, for the Torah shall not perish from the priest, nor counsel from the wise, nor the word from the prophet. Come and let us strike him with the tongue, and let us not listen to any of his words.”
and say to Yehoyaqim sovereign of Yehuḏah, ‘Thus said יהוה, “You have burned this scroll, saying, ‘Why have you written in it that the sovereign of Baḇel is certainly coming to destroy this land, and cause man and beast to cease from here?’ ”
“And you have profaned Me among My people for handfuls of barley and for pieces of bread, to put to death beings that should not die, and to keep alive beings who should not live, by your lying to My people who listen to lies!”
“And I shall draw near to you for right-ruling. And I shall be a swift witness against the practisers of witchcraft, and against adulterers, and against them that swear to falsehood, and against those who oppress the wage earner in his wages and widows and the fatherless, and those who turn away a sojourner and do not fear Me,” said יהוה of hosts.
and said, “What would you give me to deliver Him to you?” And they counted out to him thirty pieces of silver.
“But you denied the Set-apart and Righteous One, and asked that a man, a murderer, be granted you.
You have condemned, you have murdered the righteous – he does not resist you.
then they would say to him, “Please say, ‘Shibboleth’!” And he would say, “Sibboleth,” for he was unable to pronounce it right. Then they seized him and slew him at the fords of the Yardĕn. And at that time there fell forty-two thousand Ephrayimites.