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[1]Woe unto them, that imagine iniquity, and work wickedness upon their beds: when the morning is light they practice it because their hand hath power.
[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 man and his heritage.
[3]Therefore thus saith the Lord, Behold, against this family have I devised a plague, where out ye shall not pluck your necks, and ye shall not go so proudly, for this time is evil.
[4]In 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.
[5]Therefore thou shalt have none that shall cast a cord by lot in the congregation of the Lord.
[6]They that prophesied, prophesy ye not. They shall not prophesy to them, neither shall they take shame.
[7]O thou that art named of the house of Jacob, is the spirit of the Lord shortened? Are these his works? Are not my words good unto him that walketh uprightly?
[8]But 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.
[9]The women of my people have ye cast out from their pleasant houses, and from their children have ye taken away my glory continually.
[10]Arise 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 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.
[12]I 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.
[13]The 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.
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