Ezekiel 11:2

In 11 translations

BSB

And the LORD said to me, “Son of man, these are the men who plot evil and give wicked counsel in this city.

KJV

Then said he unto me, Son of man, these are the men that devise mischief, and give wicked counsel in this city:

WEB

He said to me, “Son of man, these are the men who devise iniquity, and who give wicked counsel in this city;

ASV

And he said unto me, Son of man, these are the men that devise iniquity, and that give wicked counsel in this city;

LSV

And He says to me, “Son of man, these [are] the men who are devising iniquity, and who are giving evil counsel in this city;

YLT

And He saith unto me, 'Son of man, these [are] the men who are devising iniquity, and who are giving evil counsel in this city;

DBY

And he said unto me, Son of man, these are the men that devise iniquity, and give wicked counsel in this city:

DRC

And he said to me: Son of man, these are the men that study iniquity, and frame a wicked counsel in this city,

GNV

Then said he vnto me, Sonne of man, these are the men that imagine mischiefe, and deuise wicked counsell in this citie.

JPS

And He said unto me: 'Son of man, these are the men that devise iniquity, and that give wicked counsel in this city;

LXXE

And the Lord said to me, Son of man, these are the men that devise vanities, and take evil counsel in this city:

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WLC

וַיֹּ֖אמֶר אֵלָ֑י בֶּן־אָדָ֕ם אֵ֣לֶּה הָאֲנָשִׁ֞ים הַחֹשְׁבִ֥ים אָ֛וֶן וְהַיֹּעֲצִ֥ים עֲצַת־רָ֖ע בָּעִ֥יר הַזֹּֽאת׃

LXX-Br

Καὶ εἶπε Κύριος πρὸς μὲ, υἱὲ ἀνθρώπου, οὗτοι οἱ ἄνδρες οἱ λογιζόμενοι μάταια καὶ βουλευόμενοι βουλὴν πονηρὰν ἐν τῇ πόλει ταύτῃ·

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• Isaiah 30:1“Woe to the rebellious children,” declares the LORD, “to those who carry out a plan that is not Mine, who form an alliance, but against My will, heaping up sin upon sin.
• Psalms 52:2Your tongue devises destruction like a sharpened razor, O worker of deceit.
• Psalms 2:1–2Why do the nations rage and the peoples plot in vain? The kings of the earth take their stand and the rulers gather together, against the LORD and against His Anointed One:
• Jeremiah 5:5I will go to the powerful and speak to them. Surely they know the way of the LORD, the justice of their God.” But they too, with one accord, had broken the yoke and torn off the chains.
• Isaiah 59:4No one calls for justice; no one pleads his case honestly. They rely on empty pleas; they tell lies; they conceive mischief and give birth to iniquity.
• Micah 2:1–2Woe to those who devise iniquity and plot evil on their beds! At morning’s light they accomplish it because the power is in their hands. They covet fields and seize them; they take away houses. They deprive a man of…
• Esther 8:3And once again, Esther addressed the king. She fell at his feet weeping and begged him to revoke the evil scheme of Haman the Agagite, which he had devised against the Jews.
• Psalms 36:4Even on his bed he plots wickedness; he sets himself on a path that is not good; he fails to reject evil.
• Jeremiah 18:18Then some said, “Come, let us make plans against Jeremiah, for the law will never be lost to the priest, nor counsel to the wise, nor an oracle to the prophet. Come, let us denounce him and pay no heed to any of his…

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