saying,“ There was a judge in a certain city who didn’t fear God, and didn’t respect man.

说：“某城里有一个官，不惧怕神，也不尊重世人。

他说：“某城有一个官，不惧怕上帝，也不尊重人。

他说：“某城有一个官，不惧怕神，也不尊重人。

祂说：“某城有一位既不敬畏上帝也不尊重人的审判官。

他说：“某城里有一个法官，不惧怕神，也不尊敬人。

他说：“某城里有一个审判官，他既不敬畏神，也不尊重人。

說：「某城裏有一個官，不懼怕神，也不尊重世人。

他說：「某城有一個官，不懼怕上帝，也不尊重人。

他說：「某城有一個官，不懼怕神，也不尊重人。

祂說：「某城有一位既不敬畏上帝也不尊重人的審判官。

他說：“某城裡有一個法官，不懼怕神，也不尊敬人。

他說：『某城裏有一個審判官不敬畏上帝，也不尊敬人。

他說：「某城裡有一個審判官，他既不敬畏神，也不尊重人。

曰、邑有士師、不畏上帝、不禮世人、

曰、邑有士師、不畏上帝、不禮世人、

曰、某邑有一士師、不畏天主、不禮世人、

曰『昔有邑宰、不敬天主、無恤於人。

He said:“ In a certain town there was a judge who neither feared God nor cared what people thought.

He said,“ In a certain town there was a judge. He didn’t have any respect for God or care about what people thought.

He said,“ In a certain city there was a judge who neither feared God nor respected man.

“ There was a judge in a certain city,” he said,“ who neither feared God nor cared about people.

“ There was a judge in a certain town who didn’t fear God or respect people.

saying,“ In a certain city there was a judge who did not fear God and did not respect any person.

saying:“ There was in a certain city a judge who did not fear God nor regard man.

saying, There was in a city a judge, who feared not God, and regarded not man:

“ There was a judge in a certain town who didn’t fear God or respect man.

Saying, There was in a city a judge, which feared not God, neither regarded man:

He said,“ In a certain city there was a judge who neither feared God nor respected people.

The righteous care about justice for the poor. The wicked aren’t concerned about knowledge.

He wouldn’t for a while, but afterward he said to himself,‘ Though I neither fear God, nor respect man,

“ Their mouth is full of cursing and bitterness.”“ Their feet are swift to shed blood.Destruction and misery are in their ways.The way of peace, they haven’t known.”“ There is no fear of God before their eyes.”

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.

“‘“ Behold, the princes of Israel, everyone according to his power, have been in you to shed blood.In you have they treated father and mother with contempt. Among you they have oppressed the foreigner. In you they have wronged the fatherless and the widow.You have despised my holy things, and have profaned my Sabbaths.

when I went out to the city gate, when I prepared my seat in the street.The young men saw me and hid themselves. The aged rose up and stood.The princes refrained from talking, and laid their hand on their mouth.The voice of the nobles was hushed, and their tongue stuck to the roof of their mouth.For when the ear heard me, then it blessed me; and when the eye saw me, it commended me:Because I delivered the poor who cried, and the fatherless also, who had no one to help him,the blessing of him who was ready to perish came on me, and I caused the widow’s heart to sing for joy.I put on righteousness, and it clothed me. My justice was as a robe and a diadem.I was eyes to the blind, and feet to the lame.I was a father to the needy. I researched the cause of him who I didn’t know.I broke the jaws of the unrighteous and plucked the prey out of his teeth.

Yahweh, our Lord, how majestic is your name in all the earth! You have set your glory above the heavens!From the lips of babes and infants you have established strength, because of your adversaries, that you might silence the enemy and the avenger.When I consider your heavens, the work of your fingers, the moon and the stars, which you have ordained;what is man, that you think of him? What is the son of man, that you care for him?

Moreover you shall provide out of all the people able men which fear God: men of truth, hating unjust gain; and place such over them, to be rulers of thousands, rulers of hundreds, rulers of fifties, and rulers of tens.Let them judge the people at all times. It shall be that every great matter they shall bring to you, but every small matter they shall judge themselves. So shall it be easier for you, and they shall share the load with you.

Nevertheless there are good things found in you, in that you have put away the Asheroth out of the land, and have set your heart to seek God.”Jehoshaphat lived at Jerusalem; and he went out again among the people from Beersheba to the hill country of Ephraim, and brought them back to Yahweh, the God of their fathers.He set judges in the land throughout all the fortified cities of Judah, city by city,and said to the judges,“ Consider what you do, for you don’t judge for man, but for Yahweh; and he is with you in the judgment.Now therefore let the fear of Yahweh be on you. Take heed and do it; for there is no iniquity with Yahweh our God, nor respect of persons, nor taking of bribes.”Moreover in Jerusalem Jehoshaphat appointed Levites and priests, and of the heads of the fathers’ households of Israel, for the judgment of Yahweh, and for controversies. They returned to Jerusalem.He commanded them, saying,“ You shall do this in the fear of Yahweh, faithfully, and with a perfect heart.

He judged the cause of the poor and needy; so it was well, then. Wasn’t this to know me?” says Yahweh.But your eyes and your heart are only for your covetousness, for shedding innocent blood, for oppression, and for doing violence.”

The highways are desolate. The traveling man ceases. The covenant is broken. He has despised the cities. He doesn’t respect man.