The businessmen love to cheat; they use dishonest scales.

“以法莲是商人，手里有诡诈的天平，爱行欺骗。

商人手持诡诈的天平，喜爱欺压。

商人手持诡诈的天平，喜爱欺压。

以法莲是个不诚实的商人，手里拿着骗人的秤，喜欢压榨人。

以色列是个商人，手里拿着诡诈的天平，喜爱欺压别人。

以法蓮是商人，手裏有詭詐的天平，愛行欺騙。

商人手持詭詐的天平，喜愛欺壓。

商人手持詭詐的天平，喜愛欺壓。

以法蓮是個不誠實的商人，手裡拿著騙人的秤，喜歡壓榨人。

以色列是個商人，手裡拿著詭詐的天平，喜愛欺壓別人。

嘿，作買賣的！他手裏有詭詐的天平，他愛敲竹槓騙人。

彼為迦南人、手執欺誑之衡、以勒索為悅、

以法蓮為商賈、權衡不公、虐取人財為悅、

以法蓮猶如商賈、手持不公之權衡、樂行欺詐、

The merchant uses dishonest scales and loves to defraud.

You are like a trader who uses dishonest scales. You love to cheat others.

A merchant, in whose hands are false balances, he loves to oppress.

But no, the people are like crafty merchants selling from dishonest scales— they love to cheat.

A merchant loves to extort with dishonest scales in his hands.

A merchant, in whose hands are fraudulent balances, Loves to exploit.

“ A cunning Canaanite! Deceitful scales are in his hand; He loves to oppress.

He is a trafficker, the balances of deceit are in his hand: he loveth to oppress.

A merchant loves to extort with dishonest scales in his hands.

[ He is] a merchant, the balances of deceit[ are] in his hand: he loveth to oppress.

A merchant has dishonest scales in his hand. He loves to defraud.

The Lord abhors dishonest scales, but an accurate weight is his delight.

“ I will not overlook, O sinful house, the dishonest gain you have hoarded away, or the smaller-than-standard measure I hate so much.I do not condone the use of rigged scales, or a bag of deceptive weights.

You say,“ When will the new moon festival be over, so we can sell grain? When will the Sabbath end, so we can open up the grain bins? We’re eager to sell less for a higher price, and to cheat the buyer with rigged scales!We’re eager to trade silver for the poor, a pair of sandals for the needy! We want to mix in some chaff with the grain!”

You must not do injustice in the regulation of measures, whether of length, weight, or volume.You must have honest balances, honest weights, an honest ephah, and an honest hin. I am the LORD your God who brought you out from the land of Egypt.

Here I am. Bring a charge against me before the LORD and before his chosen king. Whose ox have I taken? Whose donkey have I taken? Whom have I wronged? Whom have I oppressed? From whose hand have I taken a bribe so that I would overlook something? Tell me, and I will return it to you!”

Faithful men have disappeared from the land; there are no godly men left. They all wait in ambush so they can shed blood; they hunt their own brother with a net.

To those who sold the doves he said,“ Take these things away from here! Do not make my Father’s house a marketplace!”

Therefore, because you make the poor pay taxes on their crops and exact a grain tax from them, you will not live in the houses you built with chiseled stone, nor will you drink the wine from the fine vineyards you planted.

The people will treat each other harshly; men will oppose each other; neighbors will fight. Youths will proudly defy the elderly and riffraff will challenge those who were once respected.

Honest scales and balances are from the LORD; all the weights in the bag are his handiwork.

They trample on the dirt-covered heads of the poor; they push the destitute away. A man and his father go to the same girl; in this way they show disrespect for my moral purity.

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.

and say,‘ This is what the sovereign LORD says to Jerusalem: Your origin and your birth were in the land of the Canaanites; your father was an Amorite and your mother a Hittite.

The people of the land have practiced extortion and committed robbery. They have wronged the poor and needy; they have oppressed the foreigner who lives among them and denied them justice.

Look, the pay you have held back from the workers who mowed your fields cries out against you, and the cries of the reapers have reached the ears of the Lord of hosts.

Those who long to be rich, however, stumble into temptation and a trap and many senseless and harmful desires that plunge people into ruin and destruction.For the love of money is the root of all evils. Some people in reaching for it have strayed from the faith and stabbed themselves with many pains.

Every cooking pot in Jerusalem and Judah will become holy in the sight of the LORD who rules over all, so that all who offer sacrifices may come and use some of them to boil their sacrifices in them. On that day there will no longer be a Canaanite in the house of the LORD who rules over all.

“ I will come to you in judgment. I will be quick to testify against those who practice divination, those who commit adultery, those who break promises, and those who exploit workers, widows, and orphans, who refuse to help the immigrant and in this way show they do not fear me,” says the LORD who rules over all.

Make this announcement in the fortresses of Ashdod and in the fortresses in the land of Egypt. Say this:“ Gather on the hills around Samaria! Observe the many acts of violence taking place within the city, the oppressive deeds occurring in it.”

Listen to this message, you cows of Bashan who live on Mount Samaria! You oppress the poor; you crush the needy. You say to your husbands,“ Bring us more to drink!”

Those who devise sinful plans are as good as dead, those who dream about doing evil as they lie in bed. As soon as morning dawns they carry out their plans, because they have the power to do so.