No, in [your] heart you plan injustices; in the land you weigh out the violence of your hands.

Can there be allied with you a throne of destruction, one that forms trouble based on statute?

Ah! Those who decree decrees of evil, and writers who have written harm,

Though they have {plotted} evil against you, [though] they have planned a scheme, they will not prevail.

I saw something else under the sun: instead of justice [there was] evil; instead of righteousness [there was] wickedness.

[The] way of the righteous [is] a straight path; {you clear the level path of the righteous}.

There is nobody {who pleads with} justice, and there is nobody who judges with honesty. They rely on nothing and speak vanity. They conceive trouble and beget iniquity;

He judged [the] legal cause of [the] needy and [the] poor, [and] then it was well. {Is that not what it means to know me}?" {declares} Yahweh.

They take a bribe among you in order to shed blood; and you take usury, and you make gain [from] your neighbors by extortion, and [so] you have forgotten me, {declares} the Lord Yahweh.

Its officials [are] like wolves tearing prey in its midst, to pour out blood, to destroy people, to make dishonest gain.

And I said, "Listen, O heads of Jacob and leaders of the house of Israel! [Is it] not for you to know justice?

Hear this, O rulers of the house of Jacob and leaders of the house of Israel, those detesting justice and perverting all that [is] right,

And now we [are] calling [the] arrogant blessed! Not only do those who do wickedness prosper; they also test God and they escape!'"

So the chief priests and the Pharisees called together the Sanhedrin and said, "What are we doing? For this man is performing many signs!

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Summary

Yea, in heart ye work wickedness; ye weigh the violence of your hands in the earth.

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In heart

Though they have {plotted} evil against you, [though] they have planned a scheme, they will not prevail.
I saw something else under the sun: instead of justice [there was] evil; instead of righteousness [there was] wickedness.
There is nobody {who pleads with} justice, and there is nobody who judges with honesty. They rely on nothing and speak vanity. They conceive trouble and beget iniquity;
He judged [the] legal cause of [the] needy and [the] poor, [and] then it was well. {Is that not what it means to know me}?" {declares} Yahweh.
They take a bribe among you in order to shed blood; and you take usury, and you make gain [from] your neighbors by extortion, and [so] you have forgotten me, {declares} the Lord Yahweh.
And I said, "Listen, O heads of Jacob and leaders of the house of Israel! [Is it] not for you to know justice?
So the chief priests and the Pharisees called together the Sanhedrin and said, "What are we doing? For this man is performing many signs!

Weigh

Can there be allied with you a throne of destruction, one that forms trouble based on statute?
Ah! Those who decree decrees of evil, and writers who have written harm,
[The] way of the righteous [is] a straight path; {you clear the level path of the righteous}.

General references

"When a legal dispute {takes place} between men and they come near to the court, and [the judges] judge [with respect to] them, then they shall declare the righteous [to be] in the right and they shall condemn the wicked,
Open your mouth, judge righteousness, and defend [the] poor and needy.
I saw something else under the sun: instead of justice [there was] evil; instead of righteousness [there was] wickedness.
Do not judge according to outward appearance, but judge according to righteous judgment!"
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