Your leaders are like wolves who tear apart their victims. They actually destroy people’s lives for money!

其中的首领仿佛豺狼抓撕掠物，杀人流血，伤害人命，要得不义之财。

其中的领袖仿佛野狼抓撕掠物，流人的血，伤害人命，为得不义之财。

其中的领袖仿佛野狼抓撕掠物，流人的血，伤害人命，为得不义之财。

你的首领好像撕碎猎物的豺狼，杀人流血，谋取不义之财。

其中的官长好像撕碎猎物的豺狼，流人的血，灭人的命，为要得不义之财。

其中的首領彷彿豺狼抓撕掠物，殺人流血，傷害人命，要得不義之財。

其中的領袖彷彿野狼抓撕掠物，流人的血，傷害人命，為得不義之財。

其中的領袖彷彿野狼抓撕掠物，流人的血，傷害人命，為得不義之財。

你的首領好像撕碎獵物的豺狼，殺人流血，謀取不義之財。

其中的官長好像撕碎獵物的豺狼，流人的血，滅人的命，為要得不義之財。

她的首領在她裏邊正彷彿豺狼抓撕所抓到之物；他們行兇流人的血，殺滅人的性命，要得不義之財。

其中之牧伯、若狼攫而裂物、惟欲流血、殄滅人靈、以獲不義之利、

邑中之牧伯若狼、行其殘害、肆其吞噬、以獲不義之利。

其中牧伯、若狼攫傷生物、彼殺人流血、傷害人命、為獲不義之財、

Her officials within her are like wolves tearing their prey; they shed blood and kill people to make unjust gain.

The officials in the land are like wolves that tear their food apart. They spill blood and kill people to get rich.

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

“ Her officials within her are like wolves tearing their prey, shedding blood, and destroying lives in order to make profit dishonestly.

Her leaders within her are like wolves tearing the prey, by shedding blood and destroying lives in order to make dishonest profit.

Her princes in her midst are like wolves tearing the prey, to shed blood, to destroy people, and to get dishonest gain.

Her princes in the midst thereof are like wolves ravening the prey, to shed blood, and to destroy souls, that they may get dishonest gain.

“ Her officials within her are like wolves tearing their prey, shedding blood, and destroying lives in order to make profit dishonestly.

Her princes in the midst thereof[ are] like wolves ravening the prey, to shed blood,[ and] to destroy souls, to get dishonest gain.

Her officials are like wolves in her midst rending their prey– shedding blood and destroying lives– so they can get dishonest profit.

Her princes within it are like wolves ravening the prey, to shed blood, and to destroy souls, that they may get dishonest gain.

“ But now I clap my hands in indignation over your dishonest gain and bloodshed.

Your leaders are rebels, the companions of thieves. All of them love bribes and demand payoffs, but they refuse to defend the cause of orphans or fight for the rights of widows.

Its leaders are like roaring lions hunting for their victims. Its judges are like ravenous wolves at evening time, who by dawn have left no trace of their prey.

“ Every leader in Israel who lives within your walls is bent on murder.

Your princes plot conspiracies just as lions stalk their prey. They devour innocent people, seizing treasures and extorting wealth. They make many widows in the land.

“ For this is what the Sovereign Lord says: Enough, you princes of Israel! Stop your violence and oppression and do what is just and right. Quit robbing and cheating my people out of their land. Stop expelling them from their homes, says the Sovereign Lord.

Do not gloat over me, my enemies! For though I fall, I will rise again. Though I sit in darkness, the Lord will be my light.

but you are the very ones who hate good and love evil. You skin my people alive and tear the flesh from their bones.Yes, you eat my people’s flesh, strip off their skin, and break their bones. You chop them up like meat for the cooking pot.

“ I want to heal Israel, but its sins are too great. Samaria is filled with liars. Thieves are on the inside and bandits on the outside!Its people don’t realize that I am watching them. Their sinful deeds are all around them, and I see them all.“ The people entertain the king with their wickedness, and the princes laugh at their lies.They are all adulterers, always aflame with lust. They are like an oven that is kept hot while the baker is kneading the dough.On royal holidays, the princes get drunk with wine, carousing with those who mock them.Their hearts are like an oven blazing with intrigue. Their plot smolders through the night, and in the morning it breaks out like a raging fire.Burning like an oven, they consume their leaders. They kill their kings one after another, and no one cries to me for help.

Look here, you rich people: Weep and groan with anguish because of all the terrible troubles ahead of you.Your wealth is rotting away, and your fine clothes are moth eaten rags.Your gold and silver are corroded. The very wealth you were counting on will eat away your flesh like fire. This corroded treasure you have hoarded will testify against you on the day of judgment.For listen! Hear the cries of the field workers whom you have cheated of their pay. The cries of those who harvest your fields have reached the ears of the Lord of Heaven’s Armies.

She raised one of her cubs to become a strong young lion. He learned to hunt and devour prey, and he became a man eater.Then the nations heard about him, and he was trapped in their pit. They led him away with hooks to the land of Egypt.“ When the lioness saw that her hopes for him were gone, she took another of her cubs and taught him to be a strong young lion.He prowled among the other lions and stood out among them in his strength. He learned to hunt and devour prey, and he, too, became a man eater.

He said to them,“ The Scriptures declare,‘ My Temple will be called a house of prayer,’ but you have turned it into a den of thieves!”

Listen to me, you leaders of Israel! You hate justice and twist all that is right.You are building Jerusalem on a foundation of murder and corruption.You rulers make decisions based on bribes; you priests teach God’s laws only for a price; you prophets won’t prophesy unless you are paid. Yet all of you claim to depend on the Lord.“ No harm can come to us,” you say,“ for the Lord is here among us.”

But you dishonor the poor! Isn’t it the rich who oppress you and drag you into court?Aren’t they the ones who slander Jesus Christ, whose noble name you bear?