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