1 Woe to those who conceive wickedness,to those who devise evil on their beds!At morning’s light they execute it,because it is in the power of their hand.
2 They covet fields and seize them,and houses and take them.They defraud a man of his house,and a fellow man of his inheritance.
3 Therefore, thus says the Lord: I am devising disaster against this family,from which you cannot remove your necks;and you will not walk haughtily,for it will be a time of calamity.
4 In that day they will take up a taunt against you,and they will wail a wailing lament, and say:“We are totally ruined!He diminishes the portion of my people;how He removes it from me!To a traitor He reassigns our fields!”
5 Therefore you will not have anyone to apportion the land by lotin the assembly of the Lord.
6 “Do not prophesy,” they say.“One should not prophesy about these things.Disgrace will not overtake us.”
7 Should it be said, O house of Jacob,“Is the Spirit of the Lord impatient?Are these His deeds?” Do not My words benefithim who walks uprightly?
8 But lately My people rise uplike an enemy.You strip off the rich robefrom those who pass by trustingly,like men returning from war.
9 The women of My people you drive outfrom their delightful homes;from their childrenyou take My adornment forever.
10 Get up and go,for this is not the resting place,because uncleanness ruins,and ruin sickens.
11 If a man, going about vapidly and deceitfully, lies,“I will preach for you wine and beer,”he would be just the preacher for this people.
12 I will indeed assemble Jacob—all of you;I will indeed gather the remnant of Israel.I will place them together like sheep in a fold,like a herd in its pasture—thronging with people.
13 He who breaks through has gone up before them;they will break through and pass the gate and go out by it.Then their king will pass on before them,the Lord at their head.