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¹ Woe to those who plan wickedness
    and evil deeds upon their beds!
In the light of the morning they did it,
    because they have power in their hands.
² They covet fields and seize them,
    and houses, and they take them away.
They oppress a man and his house;
    a man and his inheritance.

⁴ In that day they will raise a proverb against you,
    and will wail a bitter wailing, saying,
"We are utterly ruined;
    he exchanges the portion of my people.
How he removes it from me;
    he apportions our field to an apostate."
⁵ Therefore you will have no one casting a line by lot
    in the assembly of Yahweh.
⁶ "Do not preach!" they are preaching.
    They should not preach to these;
    disgrace will not overtake us.
⁷ Should this be said, O house of Jacob?
    Is the patience^[a] of Yahweh shortened?
    Are these his deeds?
Are my words not pleasing
    to him who walks upright?
⁸ But recently^[b] my people have risen up as an enemy;
    from before the cloak you strip off the robe
from those passing by in confidence,
    returning from war.
⁹ You have driven out the women of my people
    from the houses of their^[c] pleasure.
From their^[d] children you have taken away
    my glory forever.
¹⁰ Arise and go,
    for this is no resting place,
on account of uncleanness that destroys
    with painful destruction.
¹¹ If a man walks about in a spirit of deception and lies,
    saying "I will preach to you of wine and strong drink,"
    then he would be a preacher for this people!
¹² I will surely gather all of you, O Jacob;
    I will surely gather together the remainder of Israel.
I will set them like sheep of Bozrah.
Like a herd in the midst of their pasture
    they will be in tumult from people.
¹³ The one who breaks out before them goes up;
    they break through and pass the gate,
    going out through it.
Their king passes before them,
    Yahweh at their head.