1: Woe to them that devise iniquity, and work evil upon their
beds! when the morning is light, they practise it, because it is in the
power of their hand. |
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2: And they covet fields, and take them by violence; and houses,
and take them away: so they oppress a man and his house, even a man and
his heritage. |
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Therefore thus saith the LORD; Behold, against this family do
I devise an evil, from which ye shall not remove your necks; neither
shall ye go haughtily: for this time is evil. |
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4: In that day shall one take up a parable against you, and
lament with a doleful lamentation, and say, We be utterly spoiled: he
hath changed the portion of my people: how hath he removed it from me!
turning away he hath divided our fields. |
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5: Therefore thou shalt have none that shall cast a cord by lot
in the congregation of the LORD. |
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6: Prophesy ye not, say they to them that prophesy: they shall
not prophesy to them, that they shall not take shame. |
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7: O thou that art named the house of Jacob, is the spirit of the
LORD straitened? are these his doings? do not my words do good to him
that walketh uprightly? |
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8: Even of late my people is risen up as an enemy: ye pull off
the robe with the garment from them that pass by securely as men averse
from war. |
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9: The women of my people have ye cast out from their pleasant
houses; from their children have ye taken away my glory for ever. |
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10: Arise ye, and depart; for this is not your rest: because it
is polluted, it shall destroy you, even with a sore destruction. |
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11: If a man walking in the spirit and falsehood do lie, saying,
I will prophesy unto thee of wine and of strong drink; he shall even be
the prophet of this people. |
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12: I will surely assemble, O Jacob, all of thee; I will surely
gather the remnant of Israel; I will put them together as the sheep of
Bozrah, as the flock in the midst of their fold: they shall make great
noise by reason of the multitude of men. |
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13: The breaker is come up before them: they have broken up, and
have passed through the gate, and are gone out by it: and their king
shall pass before them, and the LORD on the head of them. |