3Therefore thus saith Jehovah: Behold, against this family do I devise an evil, from which ye shall not remove your necks, neither shall ye walk haughtily; for it is an evil time.
4In that day shall they take up a parable against you, and lament with a doleful lamentation, [and] say, We are utterly ruined: he changeth the portion of my people: how doth he remove [it] from me! to the rebellious he divideth our fields.
5Therefore thou shalt have none that shall cast the line by lot in the assembly of Jehovah.
6Prophesy ye not, [thus] they prophesy. They shall not prophesy to these: reproaches shall not depart.
7Shall it be said, O house of Jacob, Is the Spirit of Jehovah straitened? are these his doings? Do not my words do good to him that walketh uprightly?
8But of late my people is risen up as an enemy: ye strip the robe from off the garment from them that pass by securely [as men] averse from war.
9The women of my people ye cast out from their pleasant houses; from their young children ye take away my glory for ever.
