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2:1  Alas for those who devise wickedness and evil deeds on their beds! When the morning dawns, they perform it, because it is in their power.
2:2  They covet fields, and seize them; houses, and take them away; they oppress householder and house, people and their inheritance.
2:3  Therefore, thus says the Lord: Now, I am devising against this family an evil from which you cannot remove your necks; and you shall not walk haughtily, for it will be an evil time.
2:4  On that day they shall take up a taunt-song against you, and wail with bitter lamentation, and say, ‘We are utterly ruined; the Lord alters the inheritance of my people; how he removes it from me! Among our captors he parcels out our fields.’
2:5  Therefore you will have no one to cast the line by lot in the assembly of the Lord.
2:6  ‘Do not preach’—thus they preach— ‘one should not preach of such things; disgrace will not overtake us.’
2:7  Should this be said, O house of Jacob? Is the Lord’s patience exhausted? Are these his doings? Do not my words do good to one who walks uprightly?
2:8  But you rise up against my people as an enemy; you strip the robe from the peaceful, from those who pass by trustingly with no thought of war.
2:9  The women of my people you drive out from their pleasant houses; from their young children you take away my glory for ever.
2:10  Arise and go; for this is no place to rest, because of uncleanness that destroys with a grievous destruction.
2:11  If someone were to go about uttering empty falsehoods, saying, ‘I will preach to you of wine and strong drink’, such a one would be the preacher for this people!
2:12  I will surely gather all of you, O Jacob, I will gather the survivors of Israel; I will set them together like sheep in a fold, like a flock in its pasture; it will resound with people.
2:13  The one who breaks out will go up before them; they will break through and pass the gate, going out by it. Their king will pass on before them, the Lord at their head.