[an error occurred while processing this directive] | New American Standard Bible 1995 |
1[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 1Woe to those who scheme iniquity, Who work out evil on their beds! When morning comes, they do it, For it is in the power of their hands. |
2[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 2They covet fields and then seize them, And houses, and take them away. They rob a man and his house, A man and his inheritance. |
3[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 3Therefore thus says the LORD, "Behold, I am planning against this family a calamity From which you cannot remove your necks; And you will not walk haughtily, For it will be an evil time. |
4[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 4"On that day they will take up against you a taunt And utter a bitter lamentation and say, 'We are completely destroyed! He exchanges the portion of my people; How He removes it from me! To the apostate He apportions our fields.' |
5[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 5"Therefore you will have no one stretching a measuring line For you by lot in the assembly of the LORD. |
6[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 6Do not speak out,' so they speak out. But if they do not speak out concerning these things, Reproaches will not be turned back. |
7[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 7"Is it being said, O house of Jacob: 'Is the Spirit of the LORD impatient? Are these His doings?' Do not My words do good To the one walking uprightly? |
8[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 8"Recently My people have arisen as an enemy-- You strip the robe off the garment From unsuspecting passers-by, From those returned from war. |
9[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 9"The women of My people you evict, Each one from her pleasant house. From her children you take My splendor forever. |
10[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 10"Arise and go, For this is no place of rest Because of the uncleanness that brings on destruction, A painful destruction. |
11[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 11"If a man walking after wind and falsehood Had told lies and said, 'I will speak out to you concerning wine and liquor,' He would be spokesman to this people. |
12[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 12"I will surely assemble all of you, Jacob, I will surely gather the remnant of Israel. I will put them together like sheep in the fold; Like a flock in the midst of its pasture They will be noisy with men. |
13[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 13"The breaker goes up before them; They break out, pass through the gate and go out by it. So their king goes on before them, And the LORD at their head." |
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