| English Standard Version | New Living Translation |
| 1Woe to those who devise wickedness and work evil on their beds! When the morning dawns, they perform it, because it is in the power of their hand. | 1What sorrow awaits you who lie awake at night, thinking up evil plans. You rise at dawn and hurry to carry them out, simply because you have the power to do so. |
| 2They covet fields and seize them, and houses, and take them away; they oppress a man and his house, a man and his inheritance. | 2When you want a piece of land, you find a way to seize it. When you want someone’s house, you take it by fraud and violence. You cheat a man of his property, stealing his family’s inheritance. |
| 3Therefore thus says the LORD: behold, against this family I am devising disaster, from which you cannot remove your necks, and you shall not walk haughtily, for it will be a time of disaster. | 3But this is what the LORD says: “I will reward your evil with evil; you won’t be able to pull your neck out of the noose. You will no longer walk around proudly, for it will be a terrible time.” |
| 4In that day they shall take up a taunt song against you and moan bitterly, and say, “We are utterly ruined; he changes the portion of my people; how he removes it from me! To an apostate he allots our fields.” | 4In that day your enemies will make fun of you by singing this song of despair about you: “We are finished, completely ruined! God has confiscated our land, taking it from us. He has given our fields to those who betrayed us. ” |
| 5Therefore you will have none to cast the line by lot in the assembly of the LORD. | 5Others will set your boundaries then, and the LORD’s people will have no say in how the land is divided. True and False Prophets |
| 6“Do not preach”—thus they preach— “one should not preach of such things; disgrace will not overtake us.” | 6“Don’t say such things,” the people respond. “Don’t prophesy like that. Such disasters will never come our way!” |
| 7Should this be said, O house of Jacob? Has the LORD grown impatient? Are these his deeds? Do not my words do good to him who walks uprightly? | 7Should you talk that way, O family of Israel? Will the LORD’s Spirit have patience with such behavior? If you would do what is right, you would find my words comforting. |
| 8But lately my people have risen up as an enemy; you strip the rich robe from those who pass by trustingly with no thought of war. | 8Yet to this very hour my people rise against me like an enemy! You steal the shirts right off the backs of those who trusted you, making them as ragged as men returning from battle. |
| 9The women of my people you drive out from their delightful houses; from their young children you take away my splendor forever. | 9You have evicted women from their pleasant homes and forever stripped their children of all that God would give them. |
| 10Arise and go, for this is no place to rest, because of uncleanness that destroys with a grievous destruction. | 10Up! Begone! This is no longer your land and home, for you have filled it with sin and ruined it completely. |
| 11If a man should go about and utter wind and lies, saying, “I will preach to you of wine and strong drink,” he would be the preacher for this people! | 11Suppose a prophet full of lies would say to you, “I’ll preach to you the joys of wine and alcohol!” That’s just the kind of prophet you would like! Hope for Restoration |
| 12I will surely assemble all of you, O Jacob; I will gather the remnant of Israel; I will set them together like sheep in a fold, like a flock in its pasture, a noisy multitude of men. | 12“Someday, O Israel, I will gather you; I will gather the remnant who are left. I will bring you together again like sheep in a pen, like a flock in its pasture. Yes, your land will again be filled with noisy crowds! |
| 13He who opens the breach goes up before them; they break through and pass the gate, going out by it. Their king passes on before them, the LORD at their head. | 13Your leader will break out and lead you out of exile, out through the gates of the enemy cities, back to your own land. Your king will lead you; the LORD himself will guide you.” |
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