14 who delight in doing wrong
    and rejoice in the perverseness of evil,(A)

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14 Who rejoice to do evil, and delight in the frowardness of the wicked;

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23 A fool finds pleasure in wicked schemes,(A)
    but a person of understanding delights in wisdom.

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23 It is as sport to a fool to do mischief: but a man of understanding hath wisdom.

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32 Although they know God’s righteous decree that those who do such things deserve death,(A) they not only continue to do these very things but also approve(B) of those who practice them.

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32 Who knowing the judgment of God, that they which commit such things are worthy of death, not only do the same, but have pleasure in them that do them.

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15 “What is my beloved doing in my temple
    as she, with many others, works out her evil schemes?
    Can consecrated meat(A) avert your punishment?(B)
When you engage in your wickedness,
    then you rejoice.[a]

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Footnotes

  1. Jeremiah 11:15 Or Could consecrated meat avert your punishment? / Then you would rejoice

15 What hath my beloved to do in mine house, seeing she hath wrought lewdness with many, and the holy flesh is passed from thee? when thou doest evil, then thou rejoicest.

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Love does not delight in evil(A) but rejoices with the truth.(B)

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Rejoiceth not in iniquity, but rejoiceth in the truth;

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And Judas went to the chief priests and the officers of the temple guard(A) and discussed with them how he might betray Jesus. They were delighted and agreed to give him money.(B)

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And he went his way, and communed with the chief priests and captains, how he might betray him unto them.

And they were glad, and covenanted to give him money.

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11 On that day you, Jerusalem, will not be put to shame(A)
    for all the wrongs you have done to me,(B)
because I will remove from you
    your arrogant boasters.(C)
Never again will you be haughty
    on my holy hill.(D)

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11 In that day shalt thou not be ashamed for all thy doings, wherein thou hast transgressed against me: for then I will take away out of the midst of thee them that rejoice in thy pride, and thou shalt no more be haughty because of my holy mountain.

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“They delight the king with their wickedness,
    the princes with their lies.(A)

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They make the king glad with their wickedness, and the princes with their lies.

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15 The wicked(A) foe pulls all of them up with hooks,(B)
    he catches them in his net,(C)
he gathers them up in his dragnet;
    and so he rejoices and is glad.

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15 They take up all of them with the angle, they catch them in their net, and gather them in their drag: therefore they rejoice and are glad.

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