Isa 29:21 | NETfull | STEP | those who bear false testimony against a person, who entrap the one who arbitrates at the city gate and deprive the innocent of justice by making false charges.

Isaiah 29:21

21 those who bear false testimony against a person, ^{▼▼ 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.”}
who entrap the one who arbitrates at the city gate ^{▼▼ Legal disputes were resolved at the city gate, where the town elders met. See Amos 5:10.}
and deprive the innocent of justice by making false charges. ^{▼▼ Heb “and deprive by emptiness the innocent.”}