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2:1  Ah! you plotters of iniquity, who work out evil on your beds! In the morning light you carry it out for it lies within your power.
2:2  You covet fields, and seize them; houses, and take them; You cheat owners of their houses, people of their inheritance.
2:3  Therefore thus says the Lord: Look, I am planning against this family an evil from which you cannot free your necks; Nor shall you walk with head held high, for it will be an evil time.
2:4  On that day you shall be mocked, and there will be bitter lament: “Our ruin is complete, our fields are divided among our captors, The fields of my people are measured out, and no one can get them back!”
2:5  Thus you shall have no one in the assembly of the Lord to allot to you a share of land.
2:6  “Do not preach,” they preach, “no one should preach of these things! Shame will not overtake us.”
2:7  How can it be said, house of Jacob, “Is the Lord short of patience; are these the Lord’s deeds?” Do not my words promise good to the one who walks in justice?
2:8  But you rise up against my people as an enemy: you have stripped off the garment from the peaceful, From those who go their way in confidence, as though it were spoils of war.
2:9  The women of my people you drive out from their pleasant houses; From their children you take away forever the honor I gave them.
2:10  “Get up! Leave, this is no place to rest”; Because of uncleanness that destroys with terrible destruction.
2:11  If one possessed of a lying spirit speaks deceitfully, saying, “I will preach to you wine and strong drink,” that one would be the preacher for this people.
2:12  I will gather you, Jacob, each and every one, I will assemble all the remnant of Israel; I will group them like a flock in the fold, like a herd in its pasture; the noise of the people will resound.
2:13  The one who makes a breach goes up before them; they make a breach and pass through the gate; Their king shall go through before them, the Lord at their head.