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Isaiah 32:7

The ways of the bad man are sinful. He makes sinful plans to destroy the suffering with lies, even when the one in need asks for what is right.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Church;   Dishonesty;   Falsehood;   Poor;   Speaking;   Wicked (People);   Thompson Chain Reference - Devices, Evil;   Evil;   Needy, the;   Plans and Devices of Men;   Plotting;   Poor, the;   Poverty-Riches;   Wicked, the;   The Topic Concordance - Evil;   Government;   Jesus Christ;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Isaiah;   Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Poor;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Remnant;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Isaiah, Book of;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Magnificat;   The Hawker's Poor Man's Concordance And Dictionary - Rain;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Churl;   Grace;   Hezekiah (2);   Isaiah;   Poor;   Salvation;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
The scoundrel’s weapons are destructive;he hatches plots to destroy the needy with lies,even when the poor person says what is right.
Hebrew Names Version
The instruments of the churl are evil: he devises wicked devices to destroy the humble with lying words, even when the needy speaks right.
King James Version
The instruments also of the churl are evil: he deviseth wicked devices to destroy the poor with lying words, even when the needy speaketh right.
English Standard Version
As for the scoundrel—his devices are evil; he plans wicked schemes to ruin the poor with lying words, even when the plea of the needy is right.
New American Standard Bible
As for a rogue, his weapons are evil; He devises wicked schemes To destroy the poor with slander, Even though the needy one speaks what is right.
New Century Version
The wicked person uses evil like a tool. He plans ways to take everything from the poor. He destroys the poor with lies, even when the poor person is in the right.
Amplified Bible
As for the rogue, his weapons are evil; He conceives wicked plans To ruin the poor with lies, Even when the plea of the needy one is just and right.
World English Bible
The instruments of the churl are evil: he devises wicked devices to destroy the humble with lying words, even when the needy speaks right.
Geneva Bible (1587)
For the weapons of the churle are wicked: hee deuiseth wicked counsels, to vndoe the poore with lying words: and to speake against the poore in iudgement.
Legacy Standard Bible
As for a rogue, his weapons are evil;He counsels wicked schemesTo wreak destruction on the afflicted with lying words,Even though the needy one speaks justly.
Berean Standard Bible
The weapons of the scoundrel are destructive; he hatches plots to destroy the poor with lies, even when the plea of the needy is just.
Contemporary English Version
Cruel people tell lies— they do evil things, and make cruel plans to destroy the poor and needy, even when they beg for justice.
Complete Jewish Bible
The mean person's means are mean — he devises wicked devices to ruin the poor and needy with lies, even when their cause is just.
Darby Translation
The instruments also of the churl are evil: he deviseth wicked devices to destroy the meek with lying words, even when the needy speaketh right.
Easy-to-Read Version
They use evil like a tool and plan ways to steal from the poor. They tell lies about the poor and keep them from being judged fairly.
George Lamsa Translation
The instruments of the vain person are evil; he devises wicked devices to destroy the poor with lying words, even when the testimony of the needy is right.
Good News Translation
A stupid person is evil and does evil things; he plots to ruin the poor with lies and to keep them from getting their rights.
Lexham English Bible
And a scoundrel, his weapons are evil; he plans evil devices to ruin the poor with words of deception even when the speech of the needy is right.
Literal Translation
And the weapons of the miser are evil; he devises wicked plots to destroy the poor with lying words, even the needy when he speaks right.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
These are the perlous weapons of the cuvetous, these be his shameful councels: that he maye begyle the poore with disceatful workes, yee euen there as he shulde geue sentence with the poore.
American Standard Version
And the instruments of the churl are evil: he deviseth wicked devices to destroy the meek with lying words, even when the needy speaketh right.
Bible in Basic English
The designs of the false are evil, purposing the destruction of the poor man by false words, even when he is in the right.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
The instruments also of the churl are evil; he deviseth wicked devices to destroy the poor with lying words, and the needy when he speaketh right.
King James Version (1611)
The instruments also of the churle are euill: he deuiseth wicked deuices, to destroy the poore with lying wordes, euen when the needie speaketh right.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
The weapons of the churlishe are euyll, he deuiseth noysome deuises, that he may beguyle the poore with deceiptfull wordes, yea euen there as he should geue sentence with the poore.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
For the counsel of the wicked will devise iniquity, to destroy the poor with unjust words, and ruin the cause of the poor in judgement.
English Revised Version
The instruments also of the churl are evil: he deviseth wicked devices to destroy the meek with lying words, even when the needy speaketh right.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
The vessels of a gileful man ben worste; for he schal make redi thouytis to leese mylde men in the word of a leesyng, whanne a pore man spak doom.
Update Bible Version
And the instruments of the churl are evil: he devises wicked devices to destroy the meek with lying words, even when the needy speaks right.
Webster's Bible Translation
The instruments also of the churl [are] evil: he deviseth wicked devices to destroy the poor with lying words, even when the needy speaketh right.
New English Translation
A deceiver's methods are evil; he dreams up evil plans to ruin the poor with lies, even when the needy are in the right.
New King James Version
Also the schemes of the schemer are evil; He devises wicked plans To destroy the poor with lying words, Even when the needy speaks justice.
New Living Translation
The smooth tricks of scoundrels are evil. They plot crooked schemes. They lie to convict the poor, even when the cause of the poor is just.
New Revised Standard
The villainies of villains are evil; they devise wicked devices to ruin the poor with lying words, even when the plea of the needy is right.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Yea, a knave, his weapons are wicked, - He, base schemes, hath devised To ruin the oppressed with speeches of falsehood Even when the needy pleadeth, for justice.
Douay-Rheims Bible
The vessels of the deceitful are most wicked: for he hath framed devices to destroy the meek, with lying words, when the poor man speaketh judgment.
Revised Standard Version
The knaveries of the knave are evil; he devises wicked devices to ruin the poor with lying words, even when the plea of the needy is right.
Young's Literal Translation
And the miser -- his instruments [are] evil, He hath counselled wicked devices, To corrupt the poor with lying sayings, Even when the needy speaketh justly.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
As for a rogue, his weapons are evil; He devises wicked schemes To destroy the afflicted with slander, Even though the needy one speaks what is right.

Contextual Overview

1 See, a king will rule by what is right and good and princes will be fair. 2 Each will be like a safe place from the wind, and a covering from the storm. Each will be like rivers of water in a dry country, and like the shadow of a large rock in a waste land. 3 Then the eyes of those who see will be able to see. And the ears of those who hear will listen. 4 The mind of those who act in a hurry will understand the truth. And the tongue of those who have trouble speaking will hurry to speak well. 5 The fool will no more be called great. The bad man will no more be called a man of honor. 6 For a fool speaks foolish things. His mind plans wrong-doing, to sin and to say false things against the Lord, to keep the hungry person hungry, and to keep drink from the thirsty. 7 The ways of the bad man are sinful. He makes sinful plans to destroy the suffering with lies, even when the one in need asks for what is right. 8 But the man of honor makes good plans, and he stands for what is good.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

instruments: Isaiah 1:23, Isaiah 5:23, Jeremiah 5:26-28, Micah 2:11, Micah 7:3, Matthew 26:14-16, Matthew 26:59, Matthew 26:60

deviseth: Psalms 10:7-10, Psalms 64:4-6, Psalms 82:2-5, Jeremiah 18:18, Micah 7:2, Matthew 26:4

lying: Isaiah 59:3, Isaiah 59:4, 1 Kings 21:10-14, Acts 6:11-13

the needy speaketh right: or, he speaketh against the poor in judgment

Reciprocal: 1 Samuel 25:10 - Who is David 2 Kings 1:11 - O man Psalms 10:9 - when Proverbs 6:14 - he deviseth Proverbs 11:17 - merciful Proverbs 14:17 - a man Proverbs 14:22 - err Proverbs 24:8 - General Proverbs 30:14 - to devour Isaiah 9:17 - every mouth Jeremiah 11:19 - and I Daniel 12:10 - but the wicked Amos 8:4 - swallow

Cross-References

Genesis 32:4
He told them, "Say this to my lord Esau: ‘Your servant Jacob says, "I have been living with Laban, and stayed there until now.
Genesis 32:5
I have cattle and donkeys and flocks and men and women servants. And I have sent to tell my lord, hoping to find favor in your eyes.'"
Genesis 32:8
For he said, "If Esau comes to the one group and destroys it, then the other group will get away."
Genesis 32:10
I have not earned any of the loving-kindness and faith which You have shown to your servant. For I had crossed this Jordan with only my walking stick. And now I have become two large groups.
Genesis 32:11
Save me, I pray, from the hand of my brother, from the power of Esau. For I am afraid of him. I am afraid he will come and kill us all, the mothers with the children.
Genesis 35:3
Then let us get ready and go to Bethel. I will make an altar there to God, Who answered me in the day of my trouble, and was with me every place I went."
Exodus 14:10
When Pharaoh came near, the people of Israel looked and saw the Egyptians coming after them. And they were filled with fear and cried out to the Lord.
Psalms 31:13
For I have heard many say things to hurt me. Fear is on every side. They planned together against me. They thought of ways to take away my life.
Psalms 61:2
I call to You from the end of the earth when my heart is weak. Lead me to the rock that is higher than I.
Psalms 107:6
Then they cried out to the Lord in their trouble. And He took them out of their suffering.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

The instruments also of the churl [are] evil,.... Not his [vessels] or measures he sells by, which are small and deficient, as Kimchi and Ben Melech interpret it; nor his servants, his tools in doing his wickedness, which are fit for his purpose, wicked men; but rather these are much the same with "the instruments of the foolish shepherd", Zechariah 11:15 and may signify the evil ways and methods which covetous pastors or shepherds take to fleece the flock, and to increase their own gain:

he deviseth wicked devices to destroy the poor with lying words, even when the needy speaketh right; he consults, contrives, and forms schemes with all craft and cunning, on purpose, to corrupt, as the word h signifies, the poor and meek, humble and afflicted souls, with false doctrines; even when these poor and needy ones, who want to have sound and comfortable doctrine delivered to them, speak and ask for that which is right and just, agreeably to the oracles of God, and the analogy of faith, but can not have it; wherefore such a man is unfit to be a ruler in the house of God.

h לחבל ענוים באמרי שקר "ad corrumpendum afflictos in eloquiis falsitaits", Montanus.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

The instruments also - In the Hebrew here there is a paronomasia which cannot be imitated in a translation. The word ‘instruments’ here denotes evidently the means by which the churl accomplishes his object; whether it be by words, by judicial decisions, or by crafty devices. This is also a kind of proverbial expression, and is given as a further reason why such a person would not be employed by a wise and virtuous prince.

Are evil - He will make use of any unprincipled means, any wicked plan or device, to accomplish his purpose. “With lying words.” With false representations; or with deceitful promises and assurances. His aim would be particularly directed to the poor and humble, as more easily deprived of their rights than the rich and powerful. It was also of greater importance to defend the rights of the poor, and therefore the prophet says that such a person should not be in the employ of a just and virtuous ruler.

Even when the needy speaketh right - That is, although the cause of the needy is one of truth and equity. When this would be manifest, the unprincipled man in power would deprive him of his rights, and, therefore, under a wise and virtuous administration, such a person should not be employed.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Isaiah 32:7. The instruments also of the churl are evil - "As for the niggard, his instruments are evil"] His machinations, his designs. The paronomasia, which the prophet frequently deals in, suggested this expression וכלי כליו vechelai kelaiv. The first word is expressed with some variety in the MSS. Seven MSS. read וכילי vekili, one וכל vechol, another וכולי vecoli.

To destroy the poor with lying words - "To defeat the assertions of the poor in judgment"] A word seems to have been lost here, and two others to have suffered a small alteration, which has made the sentence very obscure. The Septuagint have happily retained the rendering of the lost word, and restored the sentence in all its parts: Και διασκεδασαι λογους ταπεινων εν κρισει· ולהפר דברי אביון במשפט ulehapher dibrey ebyon bemishpat, "And disperse the words of the poor in judgment." They frequently render the verb הפר haphar by διασκεδασαι, A MS. reads ולדבר uledabber, which gives authority for the preposition ל lamed, to, necessary to the sense, and the Septuagint, Syriac, and Chaldee read במשפט bemishpat, IN judgment.


 
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