Isaiah 29:21

those who bear false testimony against a person, ¹  who entrap the one who arbitrates at the city gate ²  and deprive the innocent of justice by making false charges. ³ 

biblegateway Isa 29:21

those who with a word make a man out to be guilty, who ensnare the defender in court and with false testimony deprive the innocent of justice.

biblegateway Isa 29:21

Who cause a person to be indicted by a word, And ensnare him who adjudicates at the gate, And defraud the one in the right with meaningless arguments.

biblegateway Isa 29:21

Those who make the innocent guilty by their false testimony will disappear. And those who use trickery to pervert justice and tell lies to tear down the innocent will be no more.

biblegateway Isa 29:21

Gone the people who corrupted the courts, gone the people who cheated the poor, gone the people who victimized the innocent.

SABDAweb Isa 29:21

Who give help to a man in a wrong cause, and who put a net for the feet of him who gives decisions in the public place, taking away a man’s right without cause.

bibleoremus Isa 29:21

those who cause a person to lose a lawsuit, who set a trap for the arbiter in the gate, and without grounds deny justice to the one in the right.

biblegateway Isa 29:21

Who make a man an offender by a word, And lay a snare for him who reproves in the gate, And turn aside the just by empty words.

biblegateway Isa 29:21

those who bear false testimony against a person, ¹  who entrap the one who arbitrates at the city gate ²  and deprive the innocent of justice by making false charges. ³ 

¹ tn 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 sn Legal disputes were resolved at the city gate, where the town elders met. See Amos 5:10.

³ tn Heb “and deprive by emptiness the innocent.”