| Christian Standard Bible | International Standard Version |
| 1Woe to those who dream up wickedness and prepare evil plans on their beds! At morning light they accomplish it because the power is in their hands. | 1"Woe to those who are crafting iniquity, planning evil well into the night! When morning's light comes, they carry out their plans because they have the power to do so. |
| 2They covet fields and seize them; they also take houses. They deprive a man of his home, a person of his inheritance. | 2They covet fields and seize them; they covet houses, and grab them, too. They harass the valiant man, along with his household, an individual and his estate. |
| 3Therefore, the LORD says: I am now planning a disaster against this nation; you cannot free your necks from it. Then you will not walk so proudly because it will be an evil time. | 3"Therefore this is what the LORD says, 'I'm crafting evil against this family, from which you can't escape. You won't strut around arrogantly, because the times are evil.' |
| 4In that day one will take up a taunt against you and lament mournfully, saying, "We are totally ruined! He measures out the allotted land of my people. How he removes it from me! He allots our fields to traitors." | 4"When this happens, someone will compose a proverb about you, lamenting sorrowfully, 'We are completely ruined! He has given my people's heritage to others. How he has removed it from me, dividing up our fields!' |
| 5Therefore, there will be no one in the assembly of the LORD to divide the land by casting lots. | 5"This is why there will not be left even a single person to settle boundary disputes in the LORD's community. |
| 6"Quit your preaching," they preach. "They should not preach these things; shame will not overtake us." | 6To those who speak out, they will declare, 'Don't prophesy to anyone!' so their shame won't go away. |
| 7House of Jacob, should it be asked, "Is the Spirit of the LORD impatient? Are these the things he does?" Don't my words bring good to the one who walks uprightly? | 7"It is said, house of Jacob, 'The Spirit of the LORD is limited, if he acts this way, is he not?' "But my words benefit those who live righteously, do they not? |
| 8But recently my people have risen up like an enemy: You strip off the splendid robe from those who are passing through confidently, like those returning from war. | 8Lately my people have acted like an enemy— you strip travelers who thought they were as secure as those who return from war. |
| 9You force the women of my people out of their comfortable homes, and you take my blessing from their children forever. | 9You have evicted the wives of my people from their dream homes; you have removed my majesty from their children permanently. |
| 10Get up and leave, for this is not your place of rest because defilement brings destruction--a grievous destruction! | 10"Get up and go, because there's no rest for you here! Since everything is polluted, it can only cause destruction, even heavy destruction. |
| 11If a man comes and utters empty lies--"I will preach to you about wine and beer"--he would be just the preacher for this people! | 11Suppose a man who keeps company with a deceiving spirit prophesies like this: 'Drink wine and strong drink!' Won't the people accept him as a prophet?" |
| 12I will indeed gather all of you, Jacob; I will collect the remnant of Israel. I will bring them together like sheep in a pen, like a flock in the middle of its pasture. It will be noisy with people. | 12"Jacob, how I will surely gather all of you! How I will gather the survivors of Israel! I will gather them together like sheep in a pen, like the flock in the midst of the sheepfold. There will be a great commotion because of all the people. |
| 13One who breaks open the way will advance before them; they will break out, pass through the city gate, and leave by it. Their King will pass through before them, the LORD as their leader. | 13God will stand up and break through in their presence. Then they will pass through the gate, going out by it. Their king will pass in front of them with the LORD at their head." |
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