 1 Woe to those who devise iniquity and plan evil in their beds. Then when the morning comes+, they do it because it is in the power of their hand. 2 They covet and seize fields and houses and take them away. They oppress a man and his household, even a man and his inheritance. 3 So the Lord says this: I am plotting evil against this family from which you will not remove your necks. Nor will you go proudly. But it is an evil time. 4 In that day, one will take up a parable against you and mourn a mourning of mournings saying, We will be completely laid waste. He has exchanged the share of my people. How He has removed it from me. To the apostate He has divided our fields. 5 Therefore there will not be for you one casting a line by lot in the congregation of the Lord. 6 Do not drop words as they drop. They will not drop words about these. They will not draw back reproaches. 7 House of Jacob, it is said, The Spirit of the Lord is limited, if these are His doings. Do my words not do good to those who walk uprightly? 8 Even lately, my people have risen up like an enemy. You pull off the robe with the clothes from those who pass by securely like those averse from war. 9 You have thrown the wives of my people out from the house of her delight. From their children you have taken away my majesty forever. 10 Arise and depart. For this is not your rest, because of destroying uncleanness, even a grievous destruction. 11 If a man walks with wind and lies falsely saying, I will drop words to you for wine and for strong drink, he will even be a dropper of words for this people. 12 I will surely gather all of you, O Jacob; I will surely gather the remnant of Israel. I will put them together like the sheep of Bozrah, like the flock in the midst of their fold. They will be in commotion because of men. 13 The breaker has come up before them. They have broken up, and have passed through the gate, and have gone out of it. And their king will pass before them, and the Lord at the head of them.
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