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

“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.

The businessmen love to cheat; they use dishonest scales.

A false balance is an abomination to Yahweh, but accurate weights are his delight.

Are there yet treasures of wickedness in the house of the wicked, and a short ephah that is accursed?Shall I be pure with dishonest scales, and with a bag of deceitful weights?

Saying,‘ When will the new moon be gone, that we may sell grain? And the Sabbath, that we may market wheat, making the ephah small, and the shekel large, and dealing falsely with balances of deceit;that we may buy the poor for silver, and the needy for a pair of sandals, and sell the sweepings with the wheat?’”

“‘ You shall do no unrighteousness in judgment, in measures of length, of weight, or of quantity.You shall have just balances, just weights, a just ephah, and a just hin. I am Yahweh your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt.

Here I am. Witness against me before Yahweh, and before his anointed. Whose ox have I taken? Whose donkey have I taken? Whom have I defrauded? Whom have I oppressed? Of whose hand have I taken a bribe to make me blind my eyes? I will restore it to you.”

The godly man has perished out of the earth, and there is no one upright among men. They all lie in wait for blood; every man hunts his brother with a net.

To those who sold the doves, he said,“ Take these things out of here! Don’t make my Father’s house a marketplace!”

Therefore, because you trample on the poor, and take taxes from him of wheat: You have built houses of cut stone, but you will not dwell in them. You have planted pleasant vineyards, but you shall not drink their wine.

The people will be oppressed, everyone by another, and everyone by his neighbor. The child will behave himself proudly against the old man, and the wicked against the honorable.

Honest balances and scales are Yahweh’s; all the weights in the bag are his work.

They trample on the dust of the earth on the head of the poor, and deny justice to the oppressed; and a man and his father use the same maiden, to profane my holy name;

I said,“ Please listen, you heads of Jacob, and rulers of the house of Israel: Isn’t it for you to know justice?You who hate the good, and love the evil; who tear off their skin, and their flesh from off their bones;who also eat the flesh of my people, and peel their skin from off them, and break their bones, and chop them in pieces, as for the pot, and as meat within the cauldron.

and say,‘ The Lord Yahweh says to Jerusalem:“ Your origin and your birth is of the land of the Canaanite. An Amorite was your father, and your mother was a Hittite.

The people of the land have used oppression and exercised robbery. Yes, they have troubled the poor and needy, and have oppressed the foreigner wrongfully.

Behold, the wages of the laborers who mowed your fields, which you have kept back by fraud, cry out, and the cries of those who reaped have entered into the ears of the Lord of Armies.

But those who are determined to be rich fall into a temptation, a snare, and many foolish and harmful lusts, such as drown men in ruin and destruction.For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evil. Some have been led astray from the faith in their greed, and have pierced themselves through with many sorrows.

Yes, every pot in Jerusalem and in Judah will be holy to Yahweh of Armies; and all those who sacrifice will come and take of them, and cook in them. In that day there will no longer be a Canaanite in the house of Yahweh of Armies.

I will come near to you to judgment; and I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers, and against the adulterers, and against the perjurers, and against those who oppress the hireling in his wages, the widow, and the fatherless, and who deprive the foreigner of justice, and don’t fear me,” says Yahweh of Armies.

Proclaim in the palaces at Ashdod, and in the palaces in the land of Egypt, and say,“ Assemble yourselves on the mountains of Samaria, and see what unrest is in her, and what oppression is among them.”

Listen to this word, you cows of Bashan, who are on the mountain of Samaria, who oppress the poor, who crush the needy, who tell their husbands,“ Bring us drinks!”

Woe to those who devise iniquity and work evil on their beds! When the morning is light, they practice it, because it is in the power of their hand.