¹ Woe to them that devise iniquity, and work evil on their beds! when the morning is light, they practise it, because it is in the power of their hand. ² And they covet fields, and take them by violence; and houses, and take them away: so they oppress a man and his house, even a man and his heritage. ³ Therefore so says the LORD; See, against this family do I devise an evil, from which you will not remove your necks; neither will you go haughtily: for this time is evil. ⁴ In that day will one take up a parable against you, and lament with a doleful lamentation, and say, We be utterly spoiled: he has changed the portion of my people: how has he removed it from me! turning away he has divided our fields. ⁵ Therefore you will have none that will cast a cord by lot in the congregation of the LORD. ⁶ Prophesy you not, say they to them that prophesy: they will not prophesy to them, that they will not take shame. ⁷ O you that are named the house of Jacob, is the spirit of the LORD straightened ? are these his doings? do not my words do good to him that walks uprightly? ⁸ Even of late my people is risen up as an enemy: you pull off the robe with the garment from them that pass by securely as men averse from war. ⁹ The women of my people have you cast out from their pleasant houses from their children have you taken away my glory forever. ¹⁰ Arise you, and depart; for this is not your rest: because it is polluted, it will destroy you, even with a sorely destruction. ¹¹ If a man walking in the spirit and falsehood do lie, saying, I will prophesy to you of wine and of strong drink; he will even be the prophet of this people. ¹² I will surely assemble, O Jacob, all of you; I will surely gather the remnant of Israel; I will put them together as the sheep of Bozrah , as the flock in the midst of their fold: they will make great noise by reason of the multitude of men. ¹³ The breaker is come up before them: they have broken up, and have passed through the gate, and are gone out by it: and their king will pass before them, and the LORD on the head of them.