| Chapter 2
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| 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. |
| 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? |
| 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. |
| 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. |
