A reproof of injustice and idolatry -- A promise of restoring.

¹⁾Woe to them that devise iniquity, and work evil upon their beds! when the morning is light, they practisepractice it, because it is in the power of their hand.

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.

³⁾Therefore thus saith the LORDLord; 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.

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.

⁵⁾Therefore thou shalt have none that shall cast a cord by lot in the congregation of the LORDLord.

⁶⁾Prophesy ye not, say they to them that prophesy:; they shall not prophesy to them, that they shall not take shame.

⁷⁾O thou that art named theThe house of Jacob, is the spiritSpirit of the LORDLord straitened? are these his doings? do not my words do good to him that walketh uprightly?

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.

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.

¹⁰⁾Arise ye, and depart; for this is not your rest:; because it is polluted, it shall destroy you, even with a sore destruction.

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.

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.

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 LORDLord on the head of them.