[1] Woe to those who devise iniquity and work evil on their beds!      
when the morning is light, they practice it, because it is in the      
power of their hand. [2] They covet fields, and seize them; and      
houses, and take them away: and they oppress a man and his house,      
even a man and his heritage. [3] Therefore thus says Yahweh:	   Behold,
against this family do I devise an evil, from which you       shall not
remove your necks, neither shall you walk haughtily;	   for it is an
evil time. [4] In that day shall they take up a       parable against you,
and lament with a doleful lamentation, [and]	   say, We are utterly
ruined: he changes the portion of my people:	   how does he remove [it]
from me! to the rebellious he divides our	fields. [5] Therefore you
shall have none who shall cast the	 line by lot in the assembly of
Yahweh. [6] Don`t you prophesy,       [thus] they prophesy. They shall not
prophesy to these:	 reproaches shall not depart. [7] Shall it be said,
O house of	 Jacob, Is the Spirit of Yahweh straitened? are these his
doings?       Do not my words do good to him who walks blamelessly? [8] But
      of late my people is risen up as an enemy: you strip the robe	 
from off the garment from those who pass by securely [as men]	   
returned from war. [9] The women of my people you cast out from       their
pleasant houses; from their young children you take away my	  glory
forever. [10] Arise you, and depart; for this is not your      
resting-place; because of uncleanness that destroys, even with a      
grievous destruction. [11] If a man walking in a spirit of	 falsehood
do lie, [saying], I will prophesy to you of wine and of       strong drink;
he shall even be the prophet of this people. [12] I will surely assemble,
Jacob, all of you; I will surely gather       the remnant of Israel; I will
put them together as the sheep of	Bozrah, as a flock in the midst of
their pasture; they shall make	     great noise by reason of [the
multitude of] men. [13] The	  breaker is gone up before them: they have
broken forth and passed       on to the gate, and are gone out thereat; and
their king is	    passed on before them, and Yahweh at the head of them.