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| [1]WOE to those who devise iniquity, and work evil upon their beds! They rise up early every morning and practice what they have devised; then they lift up their hands toward God to pray. |
[1]Woe to them that devise iniquity and work evil upon their beds! When the morning is light, they execute it, because it is in the power of their hand. |
| [2]They covet fields and houses, and seize them by force; they oppress a man, taking away from him his possessions and his inheritance. |
[2]And they covet fields, and seize them; and houses, and take them away; thus they oppress a man and his house, even a man and his heritage. |
| [3]Therefore thus says the LORD God: Behold, against this people do I devise a disaster from which you shall not lift up your necks, neither shall you walk haughtily; for this is an evil time. |
[3]Therefore thus saith 𐤉𐤇𐤅𐤇: Behold, against this family do I devise an evil, from which ye shall not remove your necks, neither shall ye walk upright; for it shall be an evil time. |
| [4]In that day shall one take up a proverb against you, and lament with a wailing melody, and say, The robber has plundered us; the portion of my people he has divided with a measuring line; there is none to restore our fields with the measuring line. |
[4]In that day shall they take up a parable against you, and lament with a doleful lamentation, and say: 'We are utterly ruined; he changeth the portion of my people; how doth he remove it from me! Instead of restoring our fields, he divideth them.' |
| [5]Therefore you shall have none that shall measure by the measuring line and divide by casting the lots in the congregation of the LORD |
[5]Therefore thou shalt have none that shall cast the line by lot in the congregation of 𐤉𐤇𐤅𐤇. |
| [6]Shed not tears, and weep not over these things, |
[6]'Preach ye not', they preach; 'They shall not preach of these things, that they shall not take shame.' |
| [7]That the shame which is spoken against the house of Jacob may not overtake you; for the spirit of the LORD is angry at these devices; behold, my words are good to him who walked uprightly. |
[7]Do I change, O house of Jacob? Is the spirit of 𐤉𐤇𐤅𐤇 straitened? Are these His doings? Do not My words do good to him that walketh uprightly? |
| [8]My people stood up like a thief against his own peace; you strip the skin from the poor that they may lose their hope; you invite war. |
[8]But of late My people is risen up as an enemy; with the garment ye strip also the mantle from them that pass by securely, so that they are as men returning from war. |
| [9]The women of my people you have driven out from their pleasant houses; from their children you have taken away the glory for ever. |
[9]The women of My people ye cast out from their pleasant houses; from their young children ye take away My glory for ever. |
| [10]Arise and go away; for this is no place for your rest, because the pollution will bring destruction, and the destruction will be grievous. |
[10]Arise ye, and depart; for this is not your resting-place; because of the uncleanness thereof, it shall destroy you, even with a sore destruction. |
| [11]When a man walks in the spirit of falsehood and deception, overwhelmed with wine and drunkenness, he does so because of the anguish of this people |
[11]If a man walking in wind and falsehood do lie: 'I will preach unto thee of wine and of strong drink'; he shall even be the preacher of this people. |
| [12]I will surely gather you, O Jacob, all of you; I will surely bring you together, O remnant of Israel; I will keep them like sheep when they are in danger, like a flock in the midst of their fold, which are protected from thieves. |
[12]I will surely assemble, O Jacob, all of thee; I will surely gather the remnant of Israel; I will render them all as sheep in a fold; as a flock in the midst of their pasture; they shall make great noise by reason of the multitude of men. |
| [13]The pathbreaker is come up before them; they have made a breach and have passed through the gate, and are gone out by it; and their king shall pass before them, and the LORD at the head of them |
[13]The breaker is gone up before them; they have broken forth and passed on, by the gate, and are gone out thereat; and their king is passed on before them, and 𐤉𐤇𐤅𐤇 at the head of them. |