Isaiah 32:7New American Standard Bible (NASB ©1995) [2]
— 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.
King James Version (KJV 1769) [2]
— 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 Revised Version (ERV 1885)
— 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.
American Standard Version (ASV 1901) [2]
— 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.
Webster's Revision of the KJB (WEB 1833)
— 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.
Darby's Translation (DBY 1890)
— 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.
Rotherham's Emphasized Bible (EBR 1902)
— 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.
Young's Literal Translation (YLT 1898)
— 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.
Douay-Rheims Challoner Revision (DR 1750)
— 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.
Geneva Bible (GNV 1560)
— 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.
Original King James Bible (AV 1611) [2]
— 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.
Lamsa Bible (1957)
— 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.
Brenton Greek Septuagint (LXX, Restored Names)
— 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.
Full Hebrew Names / Holy Name KJV (2008) [2] [3]
— 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. |
The instruments
3627 {3627} Primeכְּלִיk@liy{kel-ee'}
From H3615; something prepared, that is, any apparatus (as an implement, utensil, dress, vessel or weapon).
also of the churl
3596 {3596} Primeכִּילַיkiylay{kee-lah'-ee}
From H3557 in the sense of withholding; niggardly.
[ are] evil:
7451 {7451} Primeרָעra`{rah}
From H7489; bad or (as noun) evil (naturally or morally). This includes the second (feminine) form; as adjective or noun.
he
x1931 (1931) Complementהוּאhuw'{hoo}
The second form is the feminine beyond the Pentateuch; a primitive word, the third person pronoun singular, he ( she or it); only expressed when emphatic or without a verb; also (intensively) self, or (especially with the article) the same; sometimes (as demonstrative) this or that; occasionally (instead of copula) as or are.
deviseth
3289 {3289} Primeיָעַץya`ats{yaw-ats'}
A primitive root; to advise; reflexively to deliberate or resolve.
z8804 <8804> Grammar
Stem - Qal (See H8851) Mood - Perfect (See H8816) Count - 12562
wicked devices
2154 {2154} Primeזִמָּהzimmah{zim-maw'}
From H2161; a plan, especially a bad one.
to destroy
2254 {2254} Primeחָבַלchabal{khaw-bal'}
A primitive root; to wind tightly (as a rope), that is, to bind; specifically by a pledge; figuratively to pervert, destroy; also to writhe in pain (especially of parturition).
z8763 <8763> Grammar
Stem - Piel (See H8840) Mood - Infinitive (See H8812) Count - 790
the poor
6041 {6041} Primeעָנִי`aniy{aw-nee'}
From H6031; depressed, in mind or circumstances (practically the same as H6035 subjectively and H6041 objectively).
z8675 <8675> Grammar
Kethiv Reading
Where the translators of the Authorised Version followed the qere reading rather than the kethiv.
y6035 [6035] Standardעָנָו`anav{aw-nawv'}
The second form is by intermixture with H6041; from H6031; depressed (figuratively), in mind ( gentle) or circumstances ( needy, especially saintly).
with lying
8267 {8267} Primeשֶׁקֶרsheqer{sheh'-ker}
From H8266; an untruth; by implication a sham (often adverbially).
words,
561 {0561} Primeאֵמֶר'emer{ay'-mer}
From H0559; something said.
even when the needy
34 {0034} Primeאֶבְיוֹן'ebyown{eb-yone'}
From H0014, in the sense of want (especially in feeling); destitute.
speaketh
1696 {1696} Primeדִּבֵּרdabar{daw-bar'}
A primitive root; perhaps properly to arrange; but used figuratively (of words) to speak; rarely (in a destructive sense) to subdue.
z8763 <8763> Grammar
Stem - Piel (See H8840) Mood - Infinitive (See H8812) Count - 790
right.
4941 {4941} Primeמִשְׁפָּטmishpat{mish-pawt'}
From H8199; properly a verdict (favorable or unfavorable) pronounced judicially, especially a sentence or formal decree (human or (particularly) divine law, individual or collectively), including the act, the place, the suit, the crime, and the penalty; abstractly justice, including a particular right, or privilege (statutory or customary), or even a style. |
Isaiah 32:7
_ _ churl — “the fraudulent”; this verse refers to the last clause of Isaiah 32:5; as Isaiah 32:6 referred to its first clause.
_ _ speaketh right — pleadeth a just cause (Isaiah 29:21); spiritually, “the poor man’s cause” is the divine doctrine, his rule of faith and practice. |
Isaiah 32:7
Lying words — With false and unrighteous decrees. Even — When their cause is just and good. |
- instruments:
Isaiah 1:23 Thy princes [are] rebellious, and companions of thieves: every one loveth gifts, and followeth after rewards: they judge not the fatherless, neither doth the cause of the widow come unto them.
Isaiah 5:23 Which justify the wicked for reward, and take away the righteousness of the righteous from him!
Jeremiah 5:26-28 For among my people are found wicked [men]: they lay wait, as he that setteth snares; they set a trap, they catch men. ... They are waxen fat, they shine: yea, they overpass the deeds of the wicked: they judge not the cause, the cause of the fatherless, yet they prosper; and the right of the needy do they not judge.
Micah 2:11 If a man walking in the spirit and falsehood do lie, [saying], I will prophesy unto thee of wine and of strong drink; he shall even be the prophet of this people.
Micah 7:3 That they may do evil with both hands earnestly, the prince asketh, and the judge [asketh] for a reward; and the great [man], he uttereth his mischievous desire: so they wrap it up.
Matthew 26:14-16 Then one of the twelve, called Judas Iscariot, went unto the chief priests, ... And from that time he sought opportunity to betray him.
Matthew 26:59-60 Now the chief priests, and elders, and all the council, sought false witness against Jesus, to put him to death; ... But found none: yea, though many false witnesses came, [yet] found they none. At the last came two false witnesses,
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- deviseth:
Psalms 10:7-10 His mouth is full of cursing and deceit and fraud: under his tongue [is] mischief and vanity. ... He croucheth, [and] humbleth himself, that the poor may fall by his strong ones.
Psalms 64:4-6 That they may shoot in secret at the perfect: suddenly do they shoot at him, and fear not. ... They search out iniquities; they accomplish a diligent search: both the inward [thought] of every one [of them], and the heart, [is] deep.
Psalms 82:2-5 How long will ye judge unjustly, and accept the persons of the wicked? Selah. ... They know not, neither will they understand; they walk on in darkness: all the foundations of the earth are out of course.
Jeremiah 18:18 Then said they, Come, and let us devise devices against Jeremiah; for the law shall not perish from the priest, nor counsel from the wise, nor the word from the prophet. Come, and let us smite him with the tongue, and let us not give heed to any of his words.
Micah 7:2 The good [man] is perished out of the earth: and [there is] none upright among men: they all lie in wait for blood; they hunt every man his brother with a net.
Matthew 26:4 And consulted that they might take Jesus by subtilty, and kill [him].
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- lying:
Isaiah 59:3-4 For your hands are defiled with blood, and your fingers with iniquity; your lips have spoken lies, your tongue hath muttered perverseness. ... None calleth for justice, nor [any] pleadeth for truth: they trust in vanity, and speak lies; they conceive mischief, and bring forth iniquity.
1 Kings 21:10-14 And set two men, sons of Belial, before him, to bear witness against him, saying, Thou didst blaspheme God and the king. And [then] carry him out, and stone him, that he may die. ... Then they sent to Jezebel, saying, Naboth is stoned, and is dead.
Acts 6:11-13 Then they suborned men, which said, We have heard him speak blasphemous words against Moses, and [against] God. ... And set up false witnesses, which said, This man ceaseth not to speak blasphemous words against this holy place, and the law:
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- the needy speaketh right:
- or, he speaketh against the poor in judgment
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