| 章 |
| 2:1 |
Woe to those who scheme iniquity, Who work out evil on their beds! When morning comes, they do it, For it is in the power of their hands.
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| 2:2 |
They covet fields and then seize them, And houses, and take them away. They rob a man and his house, A man and his inheritance.
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| 2:3 |
Therefore thus says the Lord, "Behold, I am planning against this family a calamity From which you cannot remove your necks; And you will not walk haughtily, For it will be an evil time.
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| 2:4 |
"On that day they will take up against you a taunt And utter a bitter lamentation and say, 'We are completely destroyed! He exchanges the portion of my people; How He removes it from me! To the apostate He apportions our fields.'
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| 2:5 |
"Therefore you will have no one stretching a measuring line For you by lot in the assembly of the Lord.
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| 2:6 |
'Do not speak out,' so they speak out. But if they do not speak out concerning these things, Reproaches will not be turned back.
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| 2:7 |
"Is it being said, O house of Jacob: 'Is the Spirit of the Lord impatient? Are these His doings?' Do not My words do good To the one walking uprightly?
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| 2:8 |
"Recently My people have arisen as an enemy-- You strip the robe off the garment From unsuspecting passers-by, From those returned from war.
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| 2:9 |
"The women of My people you evict, Each one from her pleasant house. From her children you take My splendor forever.
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| 2:10 |
"Arise and go, For this is no place of rest Because of the uncleanness that brings on destruction, A painful destruction.
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| 2:11 |
"If a man walking after wind and falsehood Had told lies and said, 'I will speak out to you concerning wine and liquor,' He would be spokesman to this people.
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| 2:12 |
"I will surely assemble all of you, Jacob, I will surely gather the remnant of Israel. I will put them together like sheep in the fold; Like a flock in the midst of its pasture They will be noisy with men.
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| 2:13 |
"The breaker goes up before them; They break out, pass through the gate and go out by it. So their king goes on before them, And the Lord at their head."
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