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^1 (a)Woe to those who devise wickedness
    and work evil ^(b)on their beds!
When the morning dawns, they perform it,
    because it is in the power of their hand.
² They covet fields and ^(c)seize them,
    and houses, and take them away;
they oppress a man and his house,
    a man and his inheritance.
³ Therefore thus says the Lord:
behold, against ^(d)this family I am devising disaster,^[a]
    from which you cannot remove your necks,
and you ^(e)shall not walk haughtily,
    ^(f)for it will be a time of disaster.
⁴ In that day ^(g)they shall take up a taunt song against you
    and moan bitterly,
and say, "We are utterly ruined;
    ^(h)he changes the portion of my people;
⁽ⁱ⁾how he removes it from me!
    ^(j)To an apostate he allots our fields."
⁵ Therefore you will have none ^(k)to cast the line by lot
    in the assembly of the Lord.

^6 (l)"Do not preach"—thus they preach—
    ^(m)"one should not preach of such things;
    ⁽ⁿ⁾disgrace will not overtake us."
⁷ Should this be said, O house of Jacob?
    ^(o)Has the Lord grown impatient?^[b]
    Are these his deeds?
Do not my words do good
    to him who walks uprightly?
⁸ But lately ^(p)my people have risen up as an enemy;
you strip the rich robe from those who pass by trustingly
    with no thought of war.^[c]
9 The women of my people you drive out
    from their delightful houses;
from their young children you take away
    my splendor forever.
^10 (q)Arise and go,
    for this is no ^(r)place to rest,
because of ^(s)uncleanness that destroys
    with a grievous destruction.
¹¹ If a man should go about and ^(t)utter wind and lies,
    saying, "I will preach to you ^(u)of wine and strong drink,"
    he would be the preacher for this people!
¹² I will surely assemble all of you, O Jacob;
    ^(v)I will gather ^(w)the remnant of Israel;
I will set them together
    like sheep in a fold,
^(x)like a flock in its pasture,
    a noisy multitude of men.
^13 (y)He who opens the breach goes up before them;
    they break through and pass the gate,
    ^(z)going out by it.
Their king passes on before them,
    ^(aa)the Lord at their head.