1Woe to those who devise iniquity and work evil on their beds! when the morning is light, they practice it, because it is in the power of their hand.
2They covet fields, and seize them; and houses, and take them away: and they oppress a man and his house, even a man and his heritage.
3Therefore thus says Yahweh: Behold, against this family do I devise an evil, from which you shall not remove your necks, neither shall you 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 changes the portion of my people: how does he remove [it] from me! to the rebellious he divides our fields.
5Therefore you shall have none who shall cast the line by lot in the assembly of Yahweh.
6Don`t you prophesy, [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 Yahweh straitened? are these his doings? Do not my words do good to him who walks blamelessly?
