3 Therefore 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 "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 "Therefore you will have no one stretching a measuring line For you by lot in the assembly of the Lord.
6 'Do not speak out,' so they speak out. But if they do not speak out concerning these things, Reproaches will not be turned back.
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 "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 "The women of My people you evict, Each one from her pleasant house. From her children you take My splendor forever.