| Chapter 2 |
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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. --
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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. --
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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. --
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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. --
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Therefore you shall have none who shall cast the line by lot in the assembly of Yahweh. --
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Don't you prophesy, [thus] they prophesy. They shall not prophesy to these: reproaches shall not depart. --
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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? --
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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. --
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The women of my people you cast out from their pleasant houses; from their young children you take away my glory forever. --
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10 |
Arise you, and depart; for this is not your resting-place; because of uncleanness that destroys, even with a grievous destruction. --
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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. --
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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. --
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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. --
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