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Isaiah 29:21

Young's Literal Translation 1862

Causing men to sin in word, And for a reprover in the gate lay a snare, And turn aside into emptiness the righteous.

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O the happiness of the man Who hath filled his quiver with them, They are not ashamed, For they speak with enemies in the gate!

To discern faces is not good, And for a piece of bread doth a man transgress.

Wo `to' those decreeing decrees of iniquity, And writers who have prescribed perverseness.

And the miser -- his instruments `are' evil, He hath counselled wicked devices, To corrupt the poor with lying sayings, Even when the needy speaketh justly.

Wo `to' those saying to evil `good,' And to good `evil,' Putting darkness for light, and light for darkness, Putting bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter.

Declaring righteous the wicked for a bribe, And the righteousness of the righteous They turn aside from him.

And the truth is lacking, And whoso is turning aside from evil, Is making himself a spoil. And Jehovah seeth, and it is evil in His eyes, That there is no judgment.

And they say, Come, And we devise against Jeremiah devices, For law doth not perish from the priest, Nor counsel from the wise, Nor the word from the prophet, Come, and we smite him with the tongue, And we do not attend to any of his words.

and unto Jehoiakim king of Judah thou dost say: Thus said Jehovah, Thou hast burnt this roll, saying, Wherefore hast thou written on it, saying, The king of Babylon surely cometh in, and hath destroyed this land, and caused to cease from it man and beast?

Yea, ye pierce Me concerning My people, For handfuls of barley, And for pieces of bread, to put to death Souls that should not die, And to keep alive souls that should not live, By your lying to My people -- hearkening to lies.

And I have drawn near to you for judgment, And I have been a witness, Making haste against sorcerers, And against adulterers, And against swearers to a falsehood, And against oppressors of the hire of an hireling, Of a widow, and of a fatherless one, And those turning aside a sojourner, And who fear Me not, said Jehovah of Hosts.

Then the Pharisees having gone, took counsel how they might ensnare him in words,

`What are ye willing to give me, and I will deliver him up to you?' and they weighed out to him thirty silverlings,

and ye the Holy and Righteous One did deny, and desired a man -- a murderer -- to be granted to you,

ye did condemn -- ye did murder the righteous one, he doth not resist you.

that they say to him, `Say, I pray thee, Shibboleth;' and he saith, `Sibboleth,' and is not prepared to speak right -- and they seize him, and slaughter him at the passages of the Jordan, and there fall at that time, of Ephraim, forty and two chiefs.




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