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2:1  Doomed! You're doomed! At night you lie in bed, making evil plans. And when morning comes, you do what you've planned because you have the power.
2:2  You grab any field or house that you want; you cheat families out of homes and land.
2:3  But here is what the Lord says: “I am planning trouble for you. Your necks will be caught in a noose, and you will be disgraced in this time of disaster.”
2:4  When that happens, this sorrowful song will be sung about you: “Ruined! Completely ruined! The Lord has taken our land and given it to traitors.”
2:5  And so you will never again own property among the Lord's people.
2:6  “Enough of your preaching!” That's what you tell me. “We won't be disgraced, so stop preaching!”
2:7  Descendants of Jacob, is it right for you to claim that the Lord did what he did because he was angry? Doesn't he always bless those who do right?
2:8  My people, you have turned against one another! You have even stolen clothes right off the backs of innocent neighbors who pass by in peace.
2:9  You take over lovely homes that belong to the women of my nation. Then you cheat their children out of the inheritance that comes from the Lord.
2:10  Get out of here, you crooks! You'll find no rest here. You're not fit to belong to the Lord's people, and you will be destroyed.
2:11  The only prophet you want is a liar who will say, “Drink and get drunk!”
2:12  I, the Lord, promise to bring together the people of Israel who have survived. I will gather them, just as a shepherd brings sheep together, and there will be many.
2:13  I will break down the gate and lead them out— then I will be their king.