| Berean Study Bible | New International Version |
| 1Woe to those who devise iniquity and plot evil on their beds! At morning’s light they accomplish it because the power is in their hands. | 1Woe to those who plan iniquity, to those who plot evil on their beds! At morning's light they carry it out because it is in their power to do it. |
| 2They covet fields and seize them; they take away houses. They deprive a man of his home, a fellow man of his inheritance. | 2They covet fields and seize them, and houses, and take them. They defraud people of their homes, they rob them of their inheritance. |
| 3Therefore this is what the LORD says: “I am planning against this nation a disaster from which you cannot free your necks. Then you will not walk so proudly, for it will be a time of calamity. | 3Therefore, the LORD says: "I am planning disaster against this people, from which you cannot save yourselves. You will no longer walk proudly, for it will be a time of calamity. |
| 4In that day they will take up a proverb against you and taunt you with this bitter lamentation: ‘We are utterly ruined! He has changed the portion of my people. How He has removed it from me! He has allotted our fields to traitors.’ ” | 4In that day people will ridicule you; they will taunt you with this mournful song: 'We are utterly ruined; my people's possession is divided up. He takes it from me! He assigns our fields to traitors.'" |
| 5Therefore, you will have no one in the assembly of the LORD to divide the land by lot. | 5Therefore you will have no one in the assembly of the LORD to divide the land by lot. |
| 6“Do not preach,” they preach. “Do not preach these things; disgrace will not overtake us.” | 6"Do not prophesy," their prophets say. "Do not prophesy about these things; disgrace will not overtake us." |
| 7Should it be said, O house of Jacob, “Is the Spirit of the LORD impatient? Are these the things He does?” Do not My words bring good to him who walks uprightly? | 7You descendants of Jacob, should it be said, "Does the LORD become impatient? Does he do such things?" "Do not my words do good to the one whose ways are upright? |
| 8But of late My people have risen up like an enemy: You strip off the splendid robe from unsuspecting passersby like men returning from battle. | 8Lately my people have risen up like an enemy. You strip off the rich robe from those who pass by without a care, like men returning from battle. |
| 9You drive the women of My people from their pleasant homes. You take away My blessing from their children forever. | 9You drive the women of my people from their pleasant homes. You take away my blessing from their children forever. |
| 10Arise and depart, for this is not your place of rest, because its defilement brings destruction—a grievous destruction! | 10Get up, go away! For this is not your resting place, because it is defiled, it is ruined, beyond all remedy. |
| 11If a man of wind were to come and say falsely, “I will preach to you of wine and strong drink,” he would be just the preacher for this people! | 11If a liar and deceiver comes and says, 'I will prophesy for you plenty of wine and beer,' that would be just the prophet for this people! |
| 12I will surely gather all of you, O Jacob; I will collect the remnant of Israel. I will bring them together like sheep in a pen, like a flock in the midst of its pasture—a noisy throng. | 12"I will surely gather all of you, Jacob; I will surely bring together the remnant of Israel. I will bring them together like sheep in a pen, like a flock in its pasture; the place will throng with people. |
| 13One who breaks open the way will go up before them; they will break through the gate, and go out by it. Their King will pass through before them, the LORD as their leader. | 13The One who breaks open the way will go up before them; they will break through the gate and go out. Their King will pass through before them, the LORD at their head." |
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