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1.    Woe to those who devise iniquity and work evil on their beds!       when the morning is light, they practice it, because it is in the       power of their hand.
 
2.    They covet fields, and seize them; and       houses, and take them away: and they oppress a man and his house,       even a man and his heritage.
 
3.    Therefore thus says Yahweh:       Behold, against this family do I devise an evil, from which you       shall not remove your necks, neither shall you walk haughtily;       for it is an evil time.
 
4.    In that day shall they take up a       parable against you, and lament with a doleful lamentation, and       say, We are utterly ruined: he changes the portion of my people:       how does he remove it from me! to the rebellious he divides our       fields.
 
5.    Therefore you shall have none who shall cast the       line by lot in the assembly of Yahweh.
 
6.    Don't you prophesy,       thus they prophesy. They shall not prophesy to these:       reproaches shall not depart.
 
7.    Shall it be said, O house of       Jacob, Is the Spirit of Yahweh straitened? are these his doings?       Do not my words do good to him who walks blamelessly?
 
8.    But       of late my people is risen up as an enemy: you strip the robe       from off the garment from those who pass by securely as men       returned from war.
 
9.    The women of my people you cast out from       their pleasant houses; from their young children you take away my       glory forever.
 
10.    Arise you, and depart; for this is not your       resting-place; because of uncleanness that destroys, even with a       grievous destruction.
 
11.    If a man walking in a spirit of       falsehood do lie, saying, I will prophesy to you of wine and of       strong drink; he shall even be the prophet of this people.
 
12.    I will surely assemble, Jacob, all of you; I will surely gather       the remnant of Israel; I will put them together as the sheep of       Bozrah, as a flock in the midst of their pasture; they shall make       great noise by reason of the multitude of men.
 
13.    The       breaker is gone up before them: they have broken forth and passed       on to the gate, and are gone out thereat; and their king is       passed on before them, and Yahweh at the head of them.