| Berean Study Bible | New American Standard Bible 1995 |
| 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 scheme iniquity, Who work out evil on their beds! When morning comes, they do it, For it is in the power of their hands. |
| 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 then seize them, And houses, and take them away. They rob a man and his house, A man and his 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 thus says the LORD, "Behold, I am planning against this family a calamity From which you cannot remove your necks; And you will not walk haughtily, For it will be an evil time. |
| 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.’ ” | 4"On that day they will take up against you a taunt And utter a bitter lamentation and say, 'We are completely destroyed! He exchanges the portion of my people; How He removes it from me! To the apostate He apportions our fields.' |
| 5Therefore, you will have no one in the assembly of the LORD to divide the land by lot. | 5"Therefore you will have no one stretching a measuring line For you by lot in the assembly of the LORD. |
| 6“Do not preach,” they preach. “Do not preach these things; disgrace will not overtake us.” | 6Do not speak out,' so they speak out. But if they do not speak out concerning these things, Reproaches will not be turned back. |
| 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? | 7"Is it being said, O house of Jacob: 'Is the Spirit of the LORD impatient? Are these His doings?' Do not My words do good To the one walking uprightly? |
| 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. | 8"Recently My people have arisen as an enemy-- You strip the robe off the garment From unsuspecting passers-by, From those returned from war. |
| 9You drive the women of My people from their pleasant homes. You take away My blessing from their children forever. | 9"The women of My people you evict, Each one from her pleasant house. From her children you take My splendor forever. |
| 10Arise and depart, for this is not your place of rest, because its defilement brings destruction—a grievous destruction! | 10"Arise and go, For this is no place of rest Because of the uncleanness that brings on destruction, A painful destruction. |
| 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! | 11"If a man walking after wind and falsehood Had told lies and said, 'I will speak out to you concerning wine and liquor,' He would be spokesman to 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 assemble all of you, Jacob, I will surely gather the remnant of Israel. I will put them together like sheep in the fold; Like a flock in the midst of its pasture They will be noisy with men. |
| 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. | 13"The breaker goes up before them; They break out, pass through the gate and go out by it. So their king goes on before them, And the LORD at their head." |
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