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| 1Woe to those who devise wickedness and work evil on their beds! When the morning dawns, they perform it, because it is in the power of their hand. | 1"Woe to those who are crafting iniquity, planning evil well into the night! When morning's light comes, they carry out their plans because they have the power to do so. |
| 2They covet fields and seize them, and houses, and take them away; they oppress a man and his house, a man and his inheritance. | 2They covet fields and seize them; they covet houses, and grab them, too. They harass the valiant man, along with his household, an individual and his estate. |
| 3Therefore thus says the LORD: behold, against this family I am devising disaster, from which you cannot remove your necks, and you shall not walk haughtily, for it will be a time of disaster. | 3"Therefore this is what the LORD says, 'I'm crafting evil against this family, from which you can't escape. You won't strut around arrogantly, because the times are evil.' |
| 4In that day they shall take up a taunt song against you and moan bitterly, and say, “We are utterly ruined; he changes the portion of my people; how he removes it from me! To an apostate he allots our fields.” | 4"When this happens, someone will compose a proverb about you, lamenting sorrowfully, 'We are completely ruined! He has given my people's heritage to others. How he has removed it from me, dividing up our fields!' |
| 5Therefore you will have none to cast the line by lot in the assembly of the LORD. | 5"This is why there will not be left even a single person to settle boundary disputes in the LORD's community. |
| 6“Do not preach”—thus they preach— “one should not preach of such things; disgrace will not overtake us.” | 6To those who speak out, they will declare, 'Don't prophesy to anyone!' so their shame won't go away. |
| 7Should this be said, O house of Jacob? Has the LORD grown impatient? Are these his deeds? Do not my words do good to him who walks uprightly? | 7"It is said, house of Jacob, 'The Spirit of the LORD is limited, if he acts this way, is he not?' "But my words benefit those who live righteously, do they not? |
| 8But lately my people have risen up as an enemy; you strip the rich robe from those who pass by trustingly with no thought of war. | 8Lately my people have acted like an enemy— you strip travelers who thought they were as secure as those who return from war. |
| 9The women of my people you drive out from their delightful houses; from their young children you take away my splendor forever. | 9You have evicted the wives of my people from their dream homes; you have removed my majesty from their children permanently. |
| 10Arise and go, for this is no place to rest, because of uncleanness that destroys with a grievous destruction. | 10"Get up and go, because there's no rest for you here! Since everything is polluted, it can only cause destruction, even heavy destruction. |
| 11If a man should go about and utter wind and lies, saying, “I will preach to you of wine and strong drink,” he would be the preacher for this people! | 11Suppose a man who keeps company with a deceiving spirit prophesies like this: 'Drink wine and strong drink!' Won't the people accept him as a prophet?" |
| 12I will surely assemble all of you, O Jacob; I will gather the remnant of Israel; I will set them together like sheep in a fold, like a flock in its pasture, a noisy multitude of men. | 12"Jacob, how I will surely gather all of you! How I will gather the survivors of Israel! I will gather them together like sheep in a pen, like the flock in the midst of the sheepfold. There will be a great commotion because of all the people. |
| 13He who opens the breach goes up before them; they break through and pass the gate, going out by it. Their king passes on before them, the LORD at their head. | 13God will stand up and break through in their presence. Then they will pass through the gate, going out by it. Their king will pass in front of them with the LORD at their head." |
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