| Chapter 2 |
| 1 | Woe to them that devise
iniquity, and work evil upon 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
thus saith the LORD; Behold, against this family do I devise an evil, from
which ye shall not remove your necks; neither shall ye go haughtily: for this
time is evil. |
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4 | In that day shall one take up a parable against you,
and lament with a doleful lamentation, and say, We be utterly spoiled: he hath
changed the portion of my people: how hath he removed it from me! turning away
he hath divided our fields. |
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5 | Therefore thou shalt have none that
shall cast a cord by lot in the congregation of the LORD. |
| 6 | Prophesy
ye not, say they to them that prophesy: they shall not prophesy to them, that
they shall not take shame. |
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7 | O thou that art named the house of
Jacob, is the spirit of the LORD straitened? are these his doings? do not my
words do good to him that walketh uprightly? |
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8 | Even of late my people is
risen up as an enemy: ye 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 ye
cast out from their pleasant houses; from their children have ye taken away my
glory for ever. |
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10 | Arise ye, and depart; for this is not your rest:
because it is polluted, it shall destroy you, even with a sore
destruction. |
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11 | If a man walking in the spirit and falsehood do
lie, saying, I will prophesy unto thee of wine and of strong drink; he shall
even be the prophet of this people. |
| 12 | I will surely assemble, O
Jacob, all of thee; 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
shall 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 shall pass before them, and
the LORD on the head of them. |
