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and work evil upon their beds!
when the morning is light, they practise 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 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.
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 Lord.
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 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?
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 Lord on the head of them.