1  Woe to those who ^qdevise wickedness

and work evil on their beds!

When the morning dawns, they perform it,

because it is in the power of their hand.

2  They covet fields and seize them,

and ^rhouses, and take them away;

they oppress a man and his house,

a man and his inheritance.

3  Therefore thus says the Lord:

behold, against this family I am devising disaster,¹

from which you cannot remove your necks,

and you shall not walk haughtily,

^sfor it will be a time of disaster.

4  In that day they shall ^ttake up a taunt song against you

and moan bitterly,

and say, ^u“We are utterly ruined;

he changes the portion of my people;

how he removes it from me!

To an apostate he allots our fields.”

5  Therefore you will have none to cast the line by lot

in the assembly of the Lord.

6  ^v“Do not preach”—thus they preach—

“one should not preach of such things;

disgrace will not overtake us.”

7  Should this be said, O house of Jacob?

Has the Lord grown impatient?²

Are these his deeds?

Do not my words do good

to him who walks uprightly?

8  But lately my people have risen up as an enemy;

you strip the rich robe from those who pass by trustingly

with no thought of war.³

9  The women of my people you drive out

from their delightful houses;

from their young children you take away

my splendor forever.

10  Arise and go,

for this is no place to rest,

because of uncleanness that destroys

with a grievous destruction.

11  If a man should go about and utter wind and lies,

saying, “I will preach to you of wine and strong drink,”

^whe would be the preacher for this people!

12  I will surely assemble all of you, O Jacob;

I will ^xgather the ^yremnant of Israel;

I will set them together

like sheep in a fold,

like a flock in its pasture,

a noisy multitude of men.

13  He who opens the breach goes up before them;

they break through and pass the gate,

going out by it.

Their king passes on before them,

the Lord at their head.