The reasons for God’s severe judgments
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📚✭Woe to those who devise iniquity,and work out evil on their beds!
When morning light comes,
they do it, because it is in the power
of their hand.
2 📚And they covet✭ fields and take
them by violence,
and covet houses
and seize them✭;
so they oppress a man and his house,
a man and his inheritance.
3 📚Therefore thus says the LORD:
“See, I am devising✭ a disaster against
this family,
from which you will not remove
your necks✭;
nor will you walk haughtily✭,
for it will be a time of disaster.
4 📚In that day they will take up
a proverb against you,
and mourn with a bitter lament,
and say, ‘We are utterly
ruined!
He has changed the portion
of my people.
How he has removed it
from me!
He has divided our fields to a traitor✭.’ ”
5 📚Therefore you will have no one
in the congregation of the LORD
who will cast a measuring
line by lot✭.
6 📚“Do not prophesy✭”,
they say to those who prophesy.
“Do not prophesy to them”,
so that they will not be
ashamed.
7 📚✭“O you who are named
the house of Jacob,
is the Spirit of the LORD impatient?
Are these his deeds?
Do not my words do good to him
who walks uprightly?
8 📚Lately my people have risen up
like an enemy✭.
You pull off the robe with the garment
from those who pass by
feeling secure,
like men returning from war.
9 📚You cast out the women of my people
from their pleasant homes.
You have taken away my glory
from their children forever.
10 📚✭Arise and depart, for this is not
your rest, because it is defiled.
It will destroy you with a
great destruction.
11 📚✭If a man who is a liar, walking
in the spirit of falsehood,
says, ‘I will prophesy to you
of wine and strong drink’,
he will become the prophet
of this people.
The future well-being of the remnant of Israel
12 📚✭“I will surely assemble all of you,
O Jacob. I will surely gather✭ the remnant
of Israel.
I will put them together like the sheep✭
of Bozrah, like the flock in the middle
of their pasture.
Because the men will be so many
they will make a great noise.
13 📚✭The one who breaks will go up
before them.
They will break out, pass through
the gate, and go out by it;
and their king will pass before them,
with the LORD at their head”.