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"Behold, I am ^(C1)planning against this ^(C2)family a disaster (exile)
Like a noose from which you ^(C3)cannot remove your necks;
Nor will you be able to walk ^(C4)haughtily and erect,
For it will be an ^(C5)evil time of subjugation to the invaders.

⁴ "On that day they shall ^(C1)take up a taunting, deriding parable against you
And ^(C2)wail with a doleful and bitter song of mourning and say,
'We are completely ^(C3)destroyed!
God exchanges the inheritance of my people;
How He removes it from me!
He ^(C4)divides our fields to the rebellious our captors.'

⁵ "Therefore, you will have no one ^(C1)stretching a measuring line dividing the common land
For you by lot in the assembly of the LORD. ^(VR1)

⁶ '^(C1)Do not speak out,' so they speak out.
But if they do ^(C2)not speak out concerning these things,
^(C3)Reproaches will not be turned back.

⁷ "Is it being said, O house of Jacob:
'Is the Spirit of the LORD ^(C1)impatient?
Or are these prophesied judgments His doings?'
Do not My words ^(C2)do good
To the one ^(C3)walking uprightly?

⁸ "But lately My people have stood up as an ^(C1)enemy and have made Me their antagonist.
You ^(C2)strip the ornaments off the garment
Of those ^(C3)unsuspecting passers-by,
Like those returned from war.

⁹ "You ^(C1)evict the women (widows) of My people,
Each one from her pleasant house;
From her young, fatherless children you take away My ^(C2)splendor and blessing forever by putting them among the pagans, away from Me.

¹⁰ "Arise and depart because the captivity is inevitable,
For this land is not the place ^(C1)of rest
Because of the ^(C2)defilement that brings destruction,
A painful and terrible destruction.

¹¹ "If a man walking in a ^(C1)false spirit spouting deception
Should lie and say,
'I will prophesy to you O Israel of ^(C2)wine and liquor (greed, sensual pleasure),'
He would be the acceptable spokesman of ^(C3)this people. ^(VR1)

¹² "I shall most certainly ^(C1)assemble all of you, O Jacob;
I shall surely gather the ^(C2)remnant of Israel.
I shall bring them together like sheep in the fold multiplying the nation;
Like a flock in the midst of its pasture.
The place will swarm with many people and hum loudly with noise.

¹³ "The ^(F1)breaker the Messiah, who opens the way shall go up before them liberating them.
They will break out, pass through the gate and go out;
So their King goes on before them,
The LORD at their head." ^(VR1)