2 If they want fields or houses, they take them. They cheat men out of their homes and property.
3 So the Lord says to them, "I am planning to send trouble on you. You will not be able to save yourselves from it. You will not live so proudly anymore. It will be a time of trouble.
4 At that time people will make fun of you. They will tease you by singing a song of sadness. They will pretend to be you and say, 'We are totally destroyed. Our enemies have divided up our land. The Lord has taken it away from us! He has given our fields to those who turned against us.' "
5 So you won't even have anyone left in the Lord's community who can divide up the land for you.
6 "Don't prophesy," the people's prophets say. "Don't prophesy about bad things. Nothing shameful is going to happen to us."
7 People of Jacob, should others say, "The Lord isn't angry with us. He doesn't do things like that"? The Lord replies, "What I promise brings good things to those who lead honest lives.
8 But lately my people have attacked one another as if they were enemies. You strip the rich robes off those who happen to pass by. They thought they were as safe as men returning from a battle they had won.