3 Therefore, the Lord proclaims:I myself am devising an evil against this familyfrom which you will not be able to remove your necks!You will no longer be able to go about arrogantly,for it will be an evil time.
4 On that day, a taunt will be raised against you;someone will wail bitterly:"We are utterly destroyed!He exchanges the portion of my people;he removes what belongs to me;he gives away our fields to a rebel."
5 Therefore, you will have no one to set boundary linesby lot in the Lord’s assembly.
6 "They mustn’t preach!" so they preach."They mustn’t preach of such things!Disgrace won’t overtake us."
7 (Should this be said, house of Jacob?)"Is the Lord’s patience cut short? Are these his deeds?"Don’t my words help the one who behaves righteously?
8 But yesterday, my people, the Lord rose up as an enemy.You strip off the glorious clothesfrom trusting passersby, those who reject war.
9 You drive out the women of my people,each from her cherished house;from their young childrenyou take away my splendor forever.