¹Woe to those who plan wickedness and those who do evil upon their beds; in the light of the morning they do it, for it lies in the power of their hand.

²They desire fields and seize them, and houses, and take them away; they oppress a man and his household, a man and his inheritance.

³Therefore thus says Yahweh: Look, I am planning evil against this clan, from which you will not remove your necks, and you will not walk proudly, for it will be an evil time.

⁴On that day someone will lift up a proverb over you and lament with a wailing, 'It is done!' He will say, 'We are utterly devastated; he exchanges the portion of my people. How he removes it from me! To a traitor he divides our fields.'

⁵Therefore you will have no one who casts a measuring-cord by lot in the assembly of Yahweh.

⁶'Do not drip,' they drip; 'they must not drip about these things; disgrace will not be turned back.'

⁷Is it said, house of Jacob, 'Has the breath of Yahweh grown short? Or are these his deeds?' Do my words not do good with the one who walks uprightly?

⁸Yet lately my people rise up as an enemy; from in front of the cloak you strip off the mantle, from those who pass by in security, who return from war.

⁹You drive out the women of my people from the house of her delights; from her infants you take away my splendor forever.

¹⁰Rise up and go, for this is not the resting place; because it has become unclean, it will destroy with a grievous pang.

¹¹If a man walked in wind and falsehood and told a lie: 'I will drip for you of wine and strong drink,' he would be the dripper for this people.

¹²I will surely gather all of you, Jacob; I will surely gather together the remnant of Israel; I will set it together like sheep in a sheepfold, like a herd in the middle of its pasture; they will be in a stir because of people.

¹³The one who breaks through will go up ahead of them; they will break through, pass through the gate, and go out by it; their king will pass on ahead of them, and Yahweh at their head.