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Isaiah 29:21

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29:21those who bear false testimony against a person,44

who entrap the one who arbitrates at the city gate45

and deprive the innocent of justice by making false charges.46

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Footnotes

  1. 44 Heb “the ones who make a man a sinner with a word.” The Hiphil of חָטָא (khata’) here has a delocutive sense: “declare a man sinful/guilty.”
  2. 45 Legal disputes were resolved at the city gate, where the town elders met. See Amos 5:10.
  3. 46 Heb “and deprive by emptiness the innocent.”

In other versions

ESVEnglish Standard Version

who by a word make a man out to be an offender,

and lay a snare for him who reproves in the gate,

and with an empty plea turn aside him who is in the right.

NIVNew International Version (2011)

those who with a word make someone out to be guilty,

who ensnare the defender in court

and with false testimony deprive the innocent of justice.

CSBChristian Standard Bible

those who, with their speech,

accuse a person of wrongdoing,

who set a trap for the one mediating at the city gate

and without cause deprive the righteous of justice.

NLTNew Living Translation

Those who convict the innocent

by their false testimony will disappear.

A similar fate awaits those who use trickery to pervert justice

and who tell lies to destroy the innocent.

LEBThe Lexham English Bible

those who mislead a person into sin with a word

and set a trap for the arbitrator in the gate

and guide away the righteous by emptiness.

KJV 1900King James Version

That make a man an offender for a word,

And lay a snare for him that reproveth in the gate,

And turn aside the just for a thing of nought.