1 vae qui cogitatis inutile et operamini malum in cubilibus vestris
in luce matutina faciunt illud
quoniam contra Deum est manus eorum
2 et concupierunt agros et violenter tulerunt
et domos rapuerunt
et calumniabantur virum et domum eius virum et hereditatem eius
3 idcirco haec dicit Dominus
ecce ego cogito super familiam istam malum
unde non auferetis colla vestra
et non ambulabitis superbi quoniam tempus pessimum est
4 in die illa sumetur super vos parabola
et cantabitur canticum cum suavitate dicentium
depopulatione vastati sumus pars populi mei commutata est
quomodo recedet a me cum revertatur qui regiones nostras dividat
5 propter hoc non erit tibi mittens funiculum sortis in coetu Domini
6 ne loquamini loquentes
non stillabit super istos non conprehendet confusio
7 dicit domus Iacob numquid adbreviatus est spiritus Domini
aut tales sunt cogitationes eius
nonne verba mea bona sunt cum eo qui recte graditur
8 et e contrario populus meus in adversarium consurrexit
desuper tunica pallium sustulistis
eos qui transiebant simpliciter convertistis
in bellum
9 mulieres populi mei eiecistis de domo deliciarum suarum
a parvulis earum tulistis laudem meam in perpetuum
10 surgite et ite quia non habetis hic requiem
propter inmunditiam eius corrumpetur putredine pessima
11 utinam non essem vir habens spiritum
et mendacium potius loquerer
stillabo tibi in vinum et in ebrietatem
et erit super quem stillatur populus iste
12 congregatione congregabo Iacob totum te
in unum conducam reliquias Israhel pariter
ponam illum quasi gregem in ovili
quasi pecus in medio caularum
tumultuabuntur a multitudine hominum
13 ascendet enim pandens iter ante eos
divident et transibunt portam et egredientur per eam
et transibit rex eorum coram eis et Dominus in capite eorum
1 Woe to them that devise iniquity, and work evil upon their beds! when the morning is light, they practise it, because it is in the power of their hand. 2 And they covet fields, and take them by violence; and houses, and take them away: so they oppress a man and his house, even a man and his heritage. 3 Therefore thus saith the LORD; Behold, against this family do I devise an evil, from which ye shall not remove your necks; neither shall ye go haughtily: for this time is evil.
4 ¶ In that day shall one take up a parable against you, and lament with a doleful lamentation, and say, We be utterly spoiled: he hath changed the portion of my people: how hath he removed it from me! turning away he hath divided our fields. 5 Therefore thou shalt have none that shall cast a cord by lot in the congregation of the LORD.
6 Prophesy ye not, say they to them that prophesy: they shall not prophesy to them, that they shall not take shame.
7 ¶ O thou that art named the house of Jacob, is the spirit of the LORD straitened? are these his doings? do not my words do good to him that walketh uprightly? 8 Even of late my people is risen up as an enemy: ye pull off the robe with the garment from them that pass by securely as men averse from war. 9 The women of my people have ye cast out from their pleasant houses; from their children have ye taken away my glory for ever. 10 Arise ye, and depart; for this is not your rest: because it is polluted, it shall destroy you , even with a sore destruction. 11 If a man walking in the spirit and falsehood do lie, saying , I will prophesy unto thee of wine and of strong drink; he shall even be the prophet of this people.
12 ¶ I will surely assemble, O Jacob, all of thee; I will surely gather the remnant of Israel; I will put them together as the sheep of Bozrah, as the flock in the midst of their fold: they shall make great noise by reason of the multitude of men. 13 The breaker is come up before them: they have broken up, and have passed through the gate, and are gone out by it: and their king shall pass before them, and the LORD on the head of them.