1Woe unto them that imagine iniquity, and work wickedness upon their beds: when the morning is light they practice it, because their hand hath power.
2And they covet fields, and take them by violence, and houses, and take them away: so they oppress a man and his house, even man and his heritage.
3Therefore thus saith the Lord, Behold, against this family have I devised a plague, whereout ye shall not pluck your necks, and ye shall not go so proudly, for this time is evil.
4In that day shall they take up a parable against you, and lament with a doleful lamentation, and say, We be utterly wasted: he hath changed the portion of my people: how hath he taken it away to restore it unto me? he hath divided our fields.
5Therefore thou shalt have none that shall cast a cord by lot in the congregation of the Lord.
6They that prophesy, Prophesy ye not. They shall not prophesy to them, neither shall they take shame.
7O thou that art named of the house of Jacob, is the Spirit of the Lord shortened? are these his works? are not my works good unto him that walketh uprightly?
8But he that was yesterday my people, is risen up on the other side, as against an enemy: they spoil the beautiful garment from them that pass by peaceably, as though they returned from the war.
9The women of my people have ye cast out from their pleasant houses, and from their children have ye taken away my glory continually.
10Arise and depart, for this is not your rest: because it is polluted, it shall destroy you, even with a sore destruction.
11If a man walk in the spirit, and would lie falsely, saying, I will prophesy unto thee of wine, and of strong drink, he shall even be the prophet of this people.
12I will surely gather thee wholly, O Jacob: I will surely gather the remnant of Israel: I will put them together as the sheep of Bozrah, even as the flock in the midst of their fold: the cities shall be full of brute of the men.
13The breaker up shall come up before them: they shall break out, and pass by the gate, and go out by it, and their king shall go before them, and the Lord shall be upon their heads.