But you, however, are inventors of lies; all of you are worthless physicians!

你们是编造谎言的，都是无用的医生。

但你们是编造谎言的，全都是无用的医生。

但你们是编造谎言的，全都是无用的医生。

而你们只会编造谎言，都是无用的庸医。

你们都是捏造谎言的，都是无用的医生。

你們是編造謊言的，都是無用的醫生。

但你們是編造謊言的，全都是無用的醫生。

但你們是編造謊言的，全都是無用的醫生。

而你們只會編造謊言，都是無用的庸醫。

你們都是捏造謊言的，都是無用的醫生。

你們呢，你們是粉飾虛假的，是無用的醫生。

爾乃造妄言者、俱為無用之醫、

爾曹言詞誕妄、如庸醫治疾、斷不能愈。

爾造虛妄之言詞、皆如無用之醫士、

You, however, smear me with lies; you are worthless physicians, all of you!

But you spread lies about me and take away my good name. If you are trying to heal me, you aren’t very good doctors!

As for you, you whitewash with lies; worthless physicians are you all.

As for you, you smear me with lies. As physicians, you are worthless quacks.

You use lies like plaster; you are all worthless healers.

But you smear me with lies; You are all worthless physicians.

But you forgers of lies, You are all worthless physicians.

But ye are forgers of lies; Ye are all physicians of no value.

But you coat the truth with lies; you are all worthless doctors.

But ye[ are] forgers of lies, ye[ are] all physicians of no value.

But you are forgers of lies. You are all physicians of no value.

Arrogant people smear my reputation with lies, but I observe your precepts with all my heart.

Go up to Gilead and get medicinal ointment, you dear poor people of Egypt. But it will prove useless no matter how much medicine you use; there will be no healing for you.

“ I have heard many things like these before. What miserable comforters are you all!

There is still medicinal ointment available in Gilead! There is still a physician there! Why then have my dear people not been restored to health?

“ Yes, the lamp of the wicked is extinguished; his flame of fire does not shine.The light in his tent grows dark; his lamp above him is extinguished.His vigorous steps are restricted, and his own counsel throws him down.For he has been thrown into a net by his feet and he wanders into a mesh.A trap seizes him by the heel; a snare grips him.A rope is hidden for him on the ground and a trap for him lies on the path.Terrors frighten him on all sides and dog his every step.Calamity is hungry for him, and misfortune is ready at his side.It eats away parts of his skin; the most terrible death devours his limbs.He is dragged from the security of his tent, and marched off to the king of terrors.Fire resides in his tent; over his residence burning sulfur is scattered.Below his roots dry up, and his branches wither above.His memory perishes from the earth, he has no name in the land.He is driven from light into darkness and is banished from the world.He has neither children nor descendants among his people, no survivor in those places he once stayed.People of the west are appalled at his fate; people of the east are seized with horror, saying,‘ Surely such is the residence of an evil man; and this is the place of one who has not known God.’”

“ Yes, I know what you are thinking, the schemes by which you would wrong me.For you say,‘ Where now is the nobleman’s house, and where are the tents in which the wicked lived?’Have you never questioned those who travel the roads? Do you not recognize their accounts–that the evil man is spared from the day of his misfortune, that he is delivered from the day of God’s wrath?No one denounces his conduct to his face; no one repays him for what he has done.And when he is carried to the tombs, and watch is kept over the funeral mound,The clods of the torrent valley are sweet to him; behind him everybody follows in procession, and before him goes a countless throng.So how can you console me with your futile words? Nothing is left of your answers but deception!”

Does God pervert justice? Or does the Almighty pervert what is right?If your children sinned against him, he gave them over to the penalty of their sin.

“ You shall not give false testimony against your neighbor.

She had endured a great deal under the care of many doctors and had spent all that she had. Yet instead of getting better, she grew worse.

“ For you took pledges from your brothers for no reason, and you stripped the clothing from the naked.You gave the weary no water to drink and from the hungry you withheld food.Although you were a powerful man, owning land, an honored man living on it,you sent widows away empty-handed, and the arms of the orphans you crushed.That is why snares surround you, and why sudden fear terrifies you,why it is so dark you cannot see, and why a flood of water covers you.“ Is not God on high in heaven? And see the lofty stars, how high they are!But you have said,‘ What does God know? Does he judge through such deep darkness?Thick clouds are a veil for him, so he does not see us, as he goes back and forth in the vault of heaven.’Will you keep to the old path that evil men have walked–men who were carried off before their time, when the flood was poured out on their foundations?They were saying to God,‘ Turn away from us,’ and‘ What can the Almighty do to us?’But it was he who filled their houses with good things– yet the counsel of the wicked was far from me.The righteous see their destruction and rejoice; the innocent mock them scornfully, saying,‘ Surely our enemies are destroyed, and fire consumes their wealth.’“ Reconcile yourself with God, and be at peace with him; in this way your prosperity will be good.Accept instruction from his mouth and store up his words in your heart.If you return to the Almighty, you will be built up; if you remove wicked behavior far from your tent,and throw your gold in the dust– your gold of Ophir among the rocks in the ravines–then the Almighty himself will be your gold, and the choicest silver for you.Surely then you will delight yourself in the Almighty, and will lift up your face toward God.You will pray to him and he will hear you, and you will fulfill your vows to him.Whatever you decide on a matter, it will be established for you, and light will shine on your ways.When people are brought low and you say‘ Lift them up!’ then he will save the downcast;he will deliver even someone who is not innocent, who will escape through the cleanness of your hands.”

Call to mind now: Who, being innocent, ever perished? And where were upright people ever destroyed?Even as I have seen, those who plow iniquity and those who sow trouble reap the same.By the breath of God they perish, and by the blast of his anger they are consumed.There is the roaring of the lion and the growling of the young lion, but the teeth of the young lions are broken.The mighty lion perishes for lack of prey, and the cubs of the lioness are scattered.

They offer only superficial help for the harm my people have suffered. They say,‘ Everything will be all right!’ But everything is not all right!

There is no one to plead your cause. There are no remedies for your wounds. There is no healing for you.

“ Call now! Is there anyone who will answer you? To which of the holy ones will you turn?For wrath kills the foolish person, and anger slays the silly one.I myself have seen the fool taking root, but suddenly I cursed his place of residence.His children are far from safety, and they are crushed at the place where judgment is rendered, nor is there anyone to deliver them.The hungry eat up his harvest, and take it even from behind the thorns, and the thirsty swallow up their fortune.

You have not strengthened the weak, healed the sick, bandaged the injured, brought back the strays, or sought the lost, but with force and harshness you have ruled over them.

I, the LORD, affirm that I am opposed to those prophets who dream up lies and report them. They are misleading my people with their reckless lies. I did not send them. I did not commission them. They are not helping these people at all. I, the LORD, affirm it!”

When Jesus heard this he said to them,“ Those who are healthy don’t need a physician, but those who are sick do. I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners.”

For now you have become like these streams that are no help; you see a terror, and are afraid.

When Ephraim saw his sickness and Judah saw his wound, then Ephraim turned to Assyria, and begged its great king for help. But he will not be able to heal you! He cannot cure your wound!