Parallel Verses

New American Standard Bible

No, in heart you work unrighteousness;
On earth you weigh out the violence of your hands.

King James Version

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

Holman Bible

No, you practice injustice in your hearts;
with your hands you weigh out violence in the land.

International Standard Version

As a matter of fact, in your heart you plan iniquities! In the land your hands are violent!

A Conservative Version

No! In heart ye work wickedness. Ye weigh out the violence of your hands in the earth.

American Standard Version

Nay, in heart ye work wickedness; Ye weigh out the violence of your hands in the earth.

Amplified


No, in your heart you devise wrongdoing;
On earth you deal out the violence of your hands.

Bible in Basic English

The purposes of your hearts are evil; your hands are full of cruel doings on the earth.

Darby Translation

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

Julia Smith Translation

Also in heart ye will work evil; in the earth ye will roll the violence of your hands.

King James 2000

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

Lexham Expanded Bible

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

Modern King James verseion

Yes, in heart you work the evil, you weigh the violence of your hands in the land.

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

But ye imagine mischief in your hearts, and your hands deal with wickedness.

NET Bible

No! You plan how to do what is unjust; you deal out violence in the earth.

New Heart English Bible

No, in your heart you plot injustice. You measure out the violence of your hands in the earth.

The Emphasized Bible

Aye! ye all do work, perversity, - Throughout the land, your hands, weigh out, violence!

Webster

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

World English Bible

No, in your heart you plot injustice. You measure out the violence of your hands in the earth.

Youngs Literal Translation

Even in heart ye work iniquities, In the land the violence of your hands ye ponder.

Context Readings

A Cry Against Injustice

1 Do you indeed decree what is right, you gods? Do you judge the children of man uprightly? 2 No, in heart you work unrighteousness;
On earth you weigh out the violence of your hands.
3 The wicked are estranged from the womb; they go astray from birth, speaking lies.

Cross References

Psalm 94:20

Can wicked rulers be allied with you, those who frame injustice by statute?

Isaiah 10:1

Woe to those who decree iniquitous decrees, and the writers who keep writing oppression,

Psalm 21:11

Though they plan evil against you, though they devise mischief, they will not succeed.

Ecclesiastes 3:16

Moreover, I saw under the sun that in the place of justice, even there was wickedness, and in the place of righteousness, even there was wickedness.

Isaiah 26:7

The path of the righteous is level; you make level the way of the righteous.

Isaiah 59:4-6

No one enters suit justly; no one goes to law honestly; they rely on empty pleas, they speak lies, they conceive mischief and give birth to iniquity.

Jeremiah 22:16-17

He judged the cause of the poor and needy; then it was well. Is not this to know me? declares the LORD.

Ezekiel 22:12

In you they take bribes to shed blood; you take interest and profit and make gain of your neighbors by extortion; but me you have forgotten, declares the Lord GOD.

Ezekiel 22:27

Her princes in her midst are like wolves tearing the prey, shedding blood, destroying lives to get dishonest gain.

Micah 3:1-3

And I said: Hear, you heads of Jacob and rulers of the house of Israel! Is it not for you to know justice?--

Micah 3:9-12

Hear this, you heads of the house of Jacob and rulers of the house of Israel, who detest justice and make crooked all that is straight,

Malachi 3:15

And now we call the arrogant blessed. Evildoers not only prosper but they put God to the test and they escape.'"

John 11:47-53

So the chief priests and the Pharisees gathered the Council and said, "What are we to do? For this man performs many signs.

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